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Mercury Rising
Pathetic....the
only thing that is rising is Bruce Willis' number of
awful films! Mercury Rising is a fairly competent, but
terribly unbelievable story about a nine year old boy who
cracks a secret government code and then is targeted for
termination. The way in which the boy is shown breaking
the code is a scene too ridiculous to describe, and also,
the significance of the code is never really established.
We never know what is at stake for Kudrow (Alec Baldwin)
and why he wants to protect it so much. This brings Art
Jeffries (Bruce Willis) onto the scene. Bruce takes it
upon himself to protect the boy Simon (Miko Hughes) and
kill any number of bad guys along the way.
While the premise to this thriller is interesting enough,
it hasn't quite been developed to its full potential.
Sure, we have a lot of scenes with Bruce running around
and doing his macho "John McClane" act again,
but it's all starting to get a bit tiring now. Bruce
should try and extend himself into bigger and better
roles and stop wasting his time on second rate thrillers
such as this. As for Baldwin, he is possibly given the
worst part ever to a big star, given about three scenes
(only one with Willis, not counting the unforgivably
contrived end fight sequence) in which to do his smooth
villain routine. As it is, he isn't too bad, but you wish
the director, Harold Becker had given him more screen
time and made it more of a personal one on one battle,
rather than another Bruce Willis against the world film.
The most impressive performance in the film goes to Miko
Hughes, who is really believable and makes you really
care about the fate of his character.
All in all, a good view if you don't like thrillers being
too taxing, but certainly not up there with Willis' or
Baldwin's best.
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