Review of Mercury Rising (1998) by Kart O — 05 Jun 2010

The concept and idea are great, but realization comes off just as a typical Bruce Willis action movie. The good wins and bad gets thrown off the roof of scyscraper - what else can u wish for, right? Stereotypical behaviour over and over.

There is a lot to the idea of autistic kid cracking the government super-code. I would have liked it a lot more if they could go more into details of the code, the purpose of it and the story beyond. It seemed that they expected the audience not to care of why the action takes place til it's there. It left me with many questions and no answers.

I think this movie had a good cast. Alec Baldwin playing government agency badass, Bruce Willis being a caring saviour and Miko Hughes as a kid - they did a good job.