Stars: Bruce Willis, Alec Baldwin, Miko Hughes, Chi McBride, Kim Dickens, Robert Stanton, Bodhi Elfman, Kevin Conway, Peter Stormare, Lindsey Lee Ginter, John Carroll Lynch, John Doman, Mark Collins, Maureen Gallagher, Kelley Hazen, Carrie Preston, Richard Riehle, Koko Taylor

Director: Harold Becker

Summary: FBI agent Art Jeffries, wrongfully disgraced after taking the fall for a botched undercover job, defends a ten-year-old autistic boy from a national security agent who orders the boy assassinated after he innocently cracks the purportedly uncrackable Mercury code.

FBI agent Art Jeffries (Bruce Willis), wrongfully disgraced after taking the fall for a botched undercover job, defends a ten-year-old autistic boy from a national security agent (Alec Baldwin) who orders the boy assassinated after he innocently cracks the purportedly uncrackable Mercury code.

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Take off your thinking caps and toss 'em in a corner, 'cos you won't need 'em when you're watching this deliriously dumb thriller from 1997. Bruce Willis stars as a demoted FBI agent who comes to the aid of an autistic boy whose mind holds a potentially deadly secret. It seems that by gazing on a puzzle magazine and making order out of a hidden system of numbers, the 9-year-old autistic boy (Miko Hughes) has accidentally deciphered a sophisticated top-secret government code. This makes him the prime target of the ruthless bureaucrat (Alec Baldwin, in one of his silliest roles) and Willis comes to the rescue. This formulaic thriller sets up this plot with a lot of entertaining urgency but you can't give any thought to Mercury Risingor the whole movie collapses under the weight of its own illogic and nonsense. The redeeming values are the performances of Willis, young Hughes and newcomer Kim Dickens as a woman who agrees (perhaps too easily, it seems) to aid Willis in his plot to out manoeuvre the bad guys. Mercury Risingis not a waste of time compared to other formulaic thrillers but its entertainment value depends on how much you enjoy being smarter than the movie. --Jeff Shannon

Aspect Ratio:	2.35 Wide Screen
Main Language:	English
Region:	Region 2
Special Features:	Documentary, Deleted scenes, Feature commentary, Production notes, Photographs, Theatrical trailer, Cast and Filmmakers' notes
Subtitles:	Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Norwegian, Portuguese, Swedish
Year:	1998
Release Date:	January 15, 2008
Runtime:	107 minutes
Certification:
Catalogue Number:	8204997
Keywords:	Action, Rising, General, Wide, Screen, Mercury, Adventure
Genre:	Action/Adventure