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Mercury Rising - DTS

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Excellent movie, one of the best, not for average IQs
Review: This movie is for anyone who lives in the real world, if they enjoy living in it a little more without risking their own skin. Bruce Willis plays a real good guy gone good. Too many people die to justify the cause. But the process is interesting.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: bruces 2nd best film
Review: this movie is one of my favorites.it has some good acting.bruce plays art jeffries who has the coolest gun ever.elec b.... whith his badguy role.but it was a good movie.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: IQ Falling
Review: This one could easily serve as Exhibit B in any indictment of knee-jerk Hollywood anti-Americanism. Exhibit A would have to be a better film.

The premise concerns an autistic child who is able to sightread extremely high-order classified ciphers. He's accomplished exactly that with the National Security Agency's latest version, which he's accessed through one of the lamest plot twists imaginable. (They've placed it in a puzzle magazine to beta-test it--no, I'm not making this up.)

So great -- the NSA hires the kid and turns him loose on Chinese, French, and other unfriendly ciphers, right? No they do not. Wake up -- this is Hollywood. They send goons out to kill him, which is where Bruce Willis, playing a conflicted law-enforcement officer of uncertain antecendents, comes to the rescue. From there on it's the standard huggermugger--unnecessary hairbreadth escapes, elite assassins who turn dopey at the most convenient moment, all-but-omniscient villains who can't see the obvious trap at the climax, etc.

The acting was phoned in. Willis can do many things well, but he can't do conflicted. For some peculiar reason, the guy who fed Buscemi into the wood chipper in "Fargo" has his hair dyed black in this one. All traces of quirkiness evident in his performance for the Coens has vanished here.

The sole exception to the overall blandness is provided by the Bloviator himself, Alec Baldwin. Perhaps the film's major offense is the implication that whole scheme is being carried out in support of Iraqi agents working against Saddam. (Kind of getting a jump on Fatboy Moore here.) Baldwin repeats this contention several times during the film, very impressively, too. With conviction, you might say.

All in all, this is a film that makes "Enemy of the State" look good. A clearer recommendation I cannot provide.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Exciting Bruce Willis Action Vehicle!
Review: This one follows the Action Formula, but in it's own strange way it kind of works. Bruce Willis is his own heroic self and delivers a good performance. Alec Baldwin delivers an over-the-top performance, but never really becomes a lethal villain. Some nice action sequences and while the plot is weak, some elements are intriguing. Miko Hughes is also good as the autistic boy who cracks a secret government code. Delivers the action and entertains. From a scale of 1-10 I give this movie a 6!

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Not like Willis. But has some wonderful drama
Review: This was a good rent movie, but not like other films of Willis. It has a touching drama with the kid, but on the other hand, it has some bad minor actors that don't know how to act.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Ok movie to rent
Review: Too unbelievable and predictable. Not too suspenseful either

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Do you like puzzles?
Review: Very good job of an exciting and different thriller. OK the kid is annoying at times, but the movie really is great. See it!

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: pretty darn good
Review: when bruce wills appears in movies with adults he tends to make me annoyed. but when he appears with kids.He seemes very good. this move is great it way be a dumb action movie but it has some heart.Miko hughes gives the best perfomance. he really seemes autstic. most movies such as house of cards and jounery of the heart deal with autisum but you can tell. they dint reasach it. thismovie does however. thats the main resoni like it. It also has suspsence.it is willis second best movie....

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Fell short of it's potential, but entertaining.
Review: Willis's character is interesting as a FBI agent haunted by past mistakes, and Baldwin makes a credible bad guy, but the usual Hollywood lust for blood stretch the viewers ability to suspend disbelief. The plot was compelling, if you like the "Conspiracy Theory" genre but, without giving away the plot, there were some events that did not seem reasonable given the circumstances. If the producers could have focused on the characters and plot a little more, and avoided shooting people at every opportunity, this could have been a great movie.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Deja vu
Review: Yeah, it's an OK film, but there's nothing new in it at all. Willis plays the role of a gritty, tough cop who wins out in the end. Die Hard? I just felt as though I was watching a movie that I'd seen before, and that we the first time I saw it. Brucie is getting a bit long in the tooth for all this too. He threw off his role as a perpetual 13 year old to become a manic depressive - well, at least, that's thae way he looks in all his recent movies. The smile has gone! Easy watching but not worth buying. Wish I hadn't!


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