Mercury Rising

Mercury Rising

  • Director: Harold Becker
  • Writer: Ryne Douglas Pearson,Lawrence Konner,Mark Rosentha
  • Countries of origin: United States
  • Language: English
  • Release date: April 3, 1998
  • Sound mix: DTS, Dolby Digital, SDDS, DTS-Stereo
  • Aspect ratio: 2.39 : 1
  • Also known as: Mercury Falling
  • "Mercury Rising" is an action film directed by Harold Baker, starring Walter Bruce Willis , Alec Baldwin , Miko Hughes and others. It was released in the United States on April 3, 1998.
    The film tells the story of undercover police officer Jeff who was demoted for a mistake and was ordered to protect an autistic teenager named Simon. 

    Details

    • Release date April 3, 1998
    • Filming locations Sturgis, South Dakota, USA
    • Production companies Universal Pictures, Imagine Entertainment

    Box office

    Budget

    $60,000,000 (estimated)

    Gross US & Canada

    $32,935,289

    Opening weekend US & Canada

    $10,104,715

    Gross worldwide

    $93,107,289

    Movie reviews

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    • By Palma 2021-12-31 08:02:38

      foolish and naive

      A very silly and naive film.

      Willis’s films seem to be of the same type. He was always beaten and beaten with short arms and legs, but like Xiaoqiang, he would never die and fight forever. Watching too many films of this kind is really annoying.

      The kid behaved well, but the description of this kind of autism was really a bit horrible. In the future, if I have a child, like this, I really don’t want to live anymore, it’s terrifying.

      The heroine is really an...

    • By Ima 2021-12-31 08:02:38

      "Patchwork"

      If this movie weren't for the old "Bruce" to star in, it would definitely be a downright lousy movie. The first few minutes of the movie were not bad, the scene of the bank robber was wonderful. As soon as Old Bu got out of the bank, breathing heavily, the movie began to surge in a patchwork direction. Autistic children, Scrabble, "Mercury Project", cold "National Security Bureau" killer, and Lao Bo's leisurely and unhurried mingled together. It wasn't until the second half of the film that a...

    • By Oliver 2021-12-31 08:02:38

      Three mistakes about cryptography

      1. The secret messages (ciphertext) encrypted by modern cryptography are all binary strings, that is, a string composed of 0 or 1. It cannot be a string as the child sees, and the ciphertext is a string. The era ended as early as the 1960s.

      2. What the child saw was the ciphertext, and the message (plaintext) was directly deciphered through the ciphertext without discussing whether it was true (but obviously it was fabricated). This can only show the incompetence of the cryptographic...

    • By Karlie 2021-12-31 08:02:38

      Failed work

      First of all, Lao Bu didn't break out of the fixed pattern. He still played an ordinary agent who was underestimated. At the beginning of the film, the "integrity" of the late agent was described, and his "sentiment" was appropriately revealed, which is Lao Bu's signature image.
      As an action movie, there are too few "movement" elements, and a small number of chase scenes and a fight scene in the last 5 minutes make it difficult to classify it as a drama. The "love" drama in the Brinell...

    • By Thea 2021-12-31 08:02:38

      The director who wants to fool the audience~

      One sentence comment: The film underestimates the audience's IQ when it completes the entire story narration with an idealized attitude.
      If you say that making a movie is about painting creation, then the filming of this film is no different from painting a wall. According to the established plan, the bedroom is warm, the bathroom is cool, and the walls of the hall are painted pure white... The plot is mechanically boring, and the simple humanistic care has long overridden the story. As...

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    • By Yvette 2022-04-24 07:01:14

      Although it is not as exciting and exciting as the current movies, the rhythm is very stable, and the acting skills of the little boy are very...

    • By Emmitt 2022-04-24 07:01:14

      The understanding of the socialist camp: a film that is discordant, apolitical, and has no big...

    • By Garth 2022-04-24 07:01:14

      The last hug is so...

    • By Erika 2022-04-23 07:02:40

      p4, the first h264 encoded quasi-HD I watched in the 17crt...

    • By Avis 2022-04-23 07:02:40

      I have a little prejudice against Bruce Willie, and I don't like his films very much, but this film is really exciting and attractive, especially the little boy, whose acting skills are...

    Movie plot

    Jeff (Walter Bruce Willis), an FBI agent, was demoted due to a job error. Depressed, he is arranged to perform an unremarkable errand to find a 9-year-old boy with autism, Simon (Miko Hughes) . Jeff found the target without much effort, but at this time Simon was severely traumatized because of the brutal murder of his parents, and he couldn't say a word. In a sense, the two of them are actors of the same disease, and Jeff understands...
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    Evaluation action

    Director Harnold Baker chose Chicago's misty streets as the background of the story, which also added a lot to the film. (Netease Entertainment Review) 
    "Mercury Rising" takes cynical tenderness as the core and uses an abnormal and indiscreet approach to show the worst ending in contemporary Hollywood movies. "Simon" in the film is basically just a prop that makes Walter Bruce Willis look like a good person. Using disabled children to...
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    Movie quotes

    • Nick Kudrow: You know, my wife says my people skills are like my cooking skills: quick and tasteless.

    • Guest at Party: Nick, I can't believe you look so good for someone so old. How do you do that?

      Nick Kudrow: Drugs, my dear. Massive doses of drugs.

    • Art Jeffries: [after smahing all of his wine bottles] Happy Birthday, Nick!