Mercury Rising ** (out of 5) (1998)

Cast: Bruce Willis, Alec Baldwin, Miko Hughes, Chi McBride, Kim Dickens

Directed by Harold Becker

 


An FBI agent uncovers a plot to kill a nine-year-old autistic boy after he the boy cracks a 2 billion dollar government code.

Willis adds another stinker into his already impressive arsenal of misfires here. Following the plot proves futile as almost no one does things as any rational human being would. The bad guys seem to have a gift for finding Willis and kid any place they go with no apparent knowldege of where they would be. The police are stupid enough to think that the boy's parents did a murder-suicide even though the mother was killed from a distance and the father called 911! And even the plot is laughable: a couple of scientists want to prove the unbreakability of the code by putting it in a crossword puzzle magazine because of something called the "Geek Factor". Baldwin continues to prove my theory that he is a good actor with a knack for picking out bad films. Oh, have I mentioned that Bruce Willis is the most undeservedly popular action star working today? Please go back to romantic comedies.


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