I went into this movie hoping that it would be a good, entertaining action movie... with a decent ammount of suspense, and a plot that kept you excited to see what comes next. I was sort of right, it was an allright action movie; as for the suspense and the plot, it is a bit more lacking
Art (Bruce Willis) protects the autistic Simon (Miko Hughes)
Art Jeffries (Bruce Willis) is an undercover FBI agent who is busted down to remedial assignments after a bad episode on a previous assignment. While on theis assignment, Art gets a call from his friend telling him about a missing child case in a small suburban neighborhood. What he doesn't know is that the child in question a)has two parents who know have bullet holes where formerly there were none, b)he is autistic, and c)he cracked the governement's new security code, codename Mercury. He finds Simon (Miko Hughs) hiding in a crawl space in his room where he had crawled into before the killer, sent to eradicate the one person who can read Mercury, can get to him. As Art tries to protect Simon, he finds out that some very powerful people want to get to Simon, and they aren't going to give up. While he is running, and taking Simon with him, two men from the NSA (National Security Agency, the agency that created Mercury) try to get messages to Art telling him who is after him and Simon... in the process both men are killed, leaving only the evidence that the NSA is trying to kill a nine year old boy. "Does Art save Simon?"... well, to answer that question, and to find out the rest of the plot you will have to see it for yourself.
Alec Baldwin is the jerk/villian
As I said, this is an allright movie... but it could have been a lot better. The first complaint I had was that it was that the plot was taking too long to get into the action. I soon found out that the reason for that was there isn't very much action in the entire movie, except for one scene on a moving train, and the final cliffhanger. Another complaint I had was the fact that an FBI agent who is hooked on pain pills, or some kind of pill, and who has gotten very little sleep manages to fend off countless hitmen with incredible training records... special forces and what not. I think Art killed at least three of these hitmen himself, and the "best" one couldn't even hit his target from like five feet with an open shot. And finally my biggest complaint is the fact that it seems like Mercury Rising was just trying to be a action oriented versian of Rain Man right down to the autistic character who was phenomenal at something... this time puzzles, like codes, instead of math. I loved Rain Man, but it was not meant to be an action movie, and it didn't fit into one
All in all, I would have to say Mercury Rising really is kind of an "iffy" movie... if it was a movie you were looking forward to seeing you probably should go see it, but if you aren't sure and you want a really good action flick to go see you might want to wait out for Lost In Space or Armageddon.
