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Greetings from Lithuania.While "Mercury Rising" (1998) is a far from anything very special, fascinating, highly exciting or even great, it not bad movie overall, the one to which you won't probably come back anytime soon after seeing it once.Performances were OK for this flick, with one exception - Miko Hughes did a great job in portraying Simon, the central figure in this story in my opinion. And the best thing in this movie except for his acting was the story itself in my opinion. It has got a great core elements that could have been made into a great movie. But the script is flawed, more then a little to say the least. Directing was OK for this script, nothing very exciting, just not bad. Overall, "Mercury Rising" had a great story, which if would have been more tightly and exciting written would made this movie great to which you could return more then one time. Now it is definitely not a bad movie for what it is overall.

Made in 1998, "Mercury Rising" showcases Bruce Willis as a compassionate champion of one against a monolithic NSA that, even 14 years ago, acted as if it knew better than the American people what we needed to know, a surreptitious shadow governmental adjunct that took Machiavelli's central idea, that "The ends justify the means" to a hideous conclusion. As in many of Willis' other films, such as "Sixth Sense," Willis projects a strong, trustworthy male role-model for a troubled, albeit gifted, autistic boy of nine.What I enjoy best about this film, however, are the many intensely suspenseful "turns," throughout the movie, almost like a cinematic flow chart, in which the survival of the protagonists is extremely doubtful. This is a film in which truth overcomes malignant power, a work of art which illustrates what Helen Keller insisted is true: "I may be only one, but still I am one." The American people, and the people of the world, who need to continue to cherish freedom and hope, and work to instill and maintain both of those values until they're ubiquitous, need many more such movies.

This movie is nothing special but it surely worth more then a measly 5.6. The acting is good and the idea is new and original so I don't know why everyone hated it so much. It had a good story line and some decent action scenes so I was pleasantly surprised by this one.This movie is about a FBI agent who is sent to protect an autistic boy who is a target of assassins after accidentally cracking a top secret government code.I don't know why everybody hated this movie so much I actually thought it was pretty good. It was nothing special but in my eyes it was worth a watch no doubt.

I was surprised to see the terrible reviews it got from some "important" reviewers. I'm watching it for at least the 4th time, just recorded it from satellite TV. Bruce Willis is really fine in this...I think few people appreciated how complex and skilled he is before this release, and I'm very glad they chose him for this role. Baldwin and the entire cast is very good and despite the not uncommon plot elements, the whole thing succeeds.Since the "Patriot Act" went into effect, I can give the actions of the government in this film a lot more credence...I rate it as an 8 out of 10, and I have seen extremely few 10's.mark