Review of Mercury Rising (1998) by Jason V — 09 Sep 2009

A veeery cool story!

This movie is 1 of the most touching that my hero made.

With Armageddon, Tears of the Sun and The Sixth Sense.

Let's admitt that films with kids often are moving!

This movie is anyways underrrated, not enough known I think.

It deserved a greater success, even if it's loved.

The casting is very good, and I wanna make a special mention to Miko Hughes, the young boy, who, although his talent, totally disappeared since.

Already 11 years passed, and I didn't hear about him for anything. He didn't have the same popularity than the other kid discovered with BW almost in the same time, I named Haley Joel Osment, in The Sixth Sense.

I just checked imdb, and saw that Miko has an uncredited role in Tropic Thunder; maybe even cut off the last editing.

I also saw he made a lot of movies and series since, but no 1 out of those movies came here, and Roswell, Boston public or Vero Mars aren't series I watch.

Anyways, I think I could see him in the next years.

The idea of the autistic kid who decipher a top secret government code has been used several times since, in movies or series, so, this film definitely inspired a lot of people, and it's normal, as the script is very well.

I sadly don't have any of these titles in mind now.

Oh yes, it's not the same, but I guess we can say that Knowing, with Nicolas Cage, is a bit inspired by Mercury Rising. But some films are more than it.

Anyways, a great entertainment for the family. Not children, but teenagers and adults, all ages.