Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #6789 in DVD
• Released on: 2008-01-15
• Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
• Aspect ratio: 2.35:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Formats: Dubbed, PAL, Widescreen
• Original language: English, German
• Subtitled in: English, German, French, Portuguese, Swedish, Danish, Dutch, Finnish
• Dubbed in: Czech, French, Italian, Polish, Spanish
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 107 minutes

Amazon.co.uk Review
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 Rising or 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 Rising is 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

Special Features
2.35 Wide Screen
DVD 9
Czech\French\German\Italian\Polish\Spanish
English
Region 2
Dolby Digital 5.1 English French German Italian Spanish
2.0 Stereo Czech Polish
Dolby Digital 5.1
2.0 Stereo
Documentary
Deleted Scenes
Feature Commentary
Production Notes
Photographs
Production Notes
Theatrical Trailer
Cast And Film Makers Notes
Danish\Dutch\English\Finnish\French\German\Norwegian\Portuguese\Swedish

Synopsis
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.

Customer Reviews

Not That Simple!
The trials and tribulations of a washed out FBI agent trying to save a young autistic boy's life, who has accidentally decrypted a top NSA encryption code.

Cast and crew deliver a competent thriller in which which Bruce Willis can save the day in his own way and still be likable if not a bit over the top. The plot (from Ryne Douglas Pearson's thriller "Simple Simon" has been simplified into something quite simple indeed (to the verge of unbelievability), but the real surprise is the 12-year old actor Miko Hughes who - even more than in the book - succeeds in bringing alive the trials of an autistic boy; he even spent time within a real school for autistic children, that also became part of the movie. The chemistry between the boy and the brute (so to speak) is real, and probably the best part of the movie.

A year later Bruce Willis would benefit of his experience with boy actors when appearing in M. Night Shyamalan's superior movie "The Sixth Sense" opposite Haley Joel Osment.

I think you'll like this!
This is another classic Willis action moivie, straight from the mould of Die Hard. The three leads are all superb in their role's in this edge of your seat thriller. This is a must buy DVD to add to your collection. BRUCE IS THE KING.