Mercury Rising (1998)

Release date: 1998-04-03
Country: USA
Language: English
Director: Harold Becker
Production Co: Universal Pictures, Imagine Entertainment
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Rating: 6.1/10
Length: 1h 51min

Storyline

Bruce Willis is an outcast FBI agent who protects a 9 year old autistic boy who is the target for assassins after cracking a top secret government code.

Plot Keywords

child in danger, autism, bar, child protagonist, child in peril, murder, helicopter, conspiracy, assassin, 9 year old, hospital, secret code, child prodigy, punched in the face, thrown from a train, coffee shop, filmed killing, death of boyfriend, reference to albert einstein, impersonating a police officer

Short Review

There's such a lack of vision behind Mercury Rising that the title could have it going in either direction and it would still end up in the same familiar place.