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  Review by Andy Summers 🤠 ★★★★

  Back in the late eighties and early nineties Bruce Willis was absolutely prolific as a movie star. He made so many films after his breakout from television's Moonlighting series that it wasn't a surprise that they couldn't all be great. For every Die Hard or Sixth Sense there were numerous duds like The Color Of Night or The Bonfire Of The Vanities, but in between there were a host of films that most considered average at best. Mercury Rising has a 17% rating on Rotten Tomatoes which would indicate that it's shit, but a few, very few in fact, like me, find this rather entertaining.
  The plot here is really quite far-fetched. A young autistic boy with a love of…

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  Review by Jaime Rebanal ★ 6

  It's easy enough to write off Mercury Rising as nothing beyond a generic action thriller from the 90's. But it only goes to show another reason as to why Mercury Rising is absolutely terrible, because of its approach to rather sensitive subject matter. Maybe it isn't so much for an outsider but my personal experiences having grown up with autism have only made me all the more critical of how films depict people on the spectrum. Given how perceptions of people like myself who struggle within their daily lives as a result of their mental health have been shaped thanks to media, it was certainly never easy and films like Mercury Rising aren't helpful to our cause. These aren't films…

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  Review by florixn ★★½

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  Bruce Willis Ranked list - HERE

  “Sometimes you got something... just magic, and then it goes away. You had it, but the magic's gone.”

  Seeing Bruce Willis old face is always a nice feeling and you shouldn't destroy that by watching his 2022 cheap shit movies. It's just nice to see how he cares about his character and his acting.

  Miko Hughes gives a really good performance as the autistic kid and my goodness his character was so annoying and yet he was probably the best thing about the film.

  The ending was rushed in my opinion. The film lasts 1 hour and 51 minutes and yet it feels so short. 2 hours might have been more fitting and…

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  Review by matt lynch ★★★

  ART IS A STRANGER. Discussed on Episode 29 of The Suspense is Killing Us.

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  Review by Comicbookfan ★

  A silly confusing plot, not a lot of action scenes and not very thrilling. Plus bruce Willis looks bored. Ale Baldwin's pretty good but hes not in it much. Forgettable film.

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  Review by jackie_eff ★★★★★

  My favourite part of this movie was whenever Simon would look at the codes and there were computer brain noises

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  Review by Dave Edwards ★★½

  If you ask me, this kid sure is one cocky sumbitch. Doing mazes meant for adults in sharpie and shit. 

  If that wasn’t enough, he goes and solves a supposedly indecipherable top secret government code which gets his parents killed. 

  Kid Icarus, over here.

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  Review by Andy Summers 🤠 ★★★★

  Harold Becker's Mercury Rising is a formulaic and generic thriller from the late nineties. It came along during Bruce Willis' most prolific, if slightly patchy period of filmmaking. Four years earlier he'd reached possibly a career nirvana in Tarantino's Pulp Fiction, and although there were some fine performances in the likes of 12 Monkeys and Die Hard with a Vengeance, the tail end of the nineties had more turkeys on Willis' cv than a Christmas dinner. Lets try to forget Colour of Night and The Bonfire of the Vanities, they left a stain on my film-watching enjoyment for many years, but Mercury Rising manages, despite a hokey plot, to have just enough elements to become a guilty pleasure.
  Willis plays…

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  Review by Joe ★★★★ 6

  Close to the ideal version of this type of ridiculous but committed movie, starting with its seemingly unending parade of character actor ringers and a scenery-demolishing villainous performance from Alec Baldwin. His class-warfare wine cellar confrontation with gruff, blue collar FBI agent Bruce Willis (wearing what looks just like his jacket from Pulp Fiction!) is one for the Movies With One Great Scene file. Moves fast and features some pretty good suspense set pieces, take a drink every time someone says "autistic boy." Bumping this up half a star for the Checkers cameo, the first time I have ever seen anyone with food from Checkers in a movie.

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  Review by Mark Mooney ★★★

  "Mummy, Simon is home." - Simon

  FBI Agent Art Jeffries (Bruce Willis) has to protect Simon Lynch (Miko Hughes), a nine-year-old autistic who has just cracked a top-secret government code that was hidden in a puzzle book ... Mercury Rising is a solid action thriller with an interesting premise that gets off to a good start only to go off the rails a little towards the end along with a hammy Alec Baldwin but still stays entertaining thanks to Willis' and Hughes' fine performances.

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  Review by Xebeche ★★ 2

  I miss my preteen days when anything that was R-rated and starring Bruce Willis was automatically cool.

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  Review by 𝗙𝗥𝗢𝗡𝗧 𝗥𝗢𝗪 ℝ𝔼𝕍𝕀𝔼𝕎 ★★★

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  #20 - Mercury Rising

  The Mercury Rising DVD was actually one of the first 5 or 10 movies I ever bought, so for the second review running, this is bathed in nostalgia for me. You know that feeling when you've largely forgotten everything about a film and as soon as the credits pop up you're filled with that sense of an old acquaintance? That's Mercury Rising for me.

  Of course, it's very hard to forget just how daft the whole thing is. Utterly preposterous would be more exact.

  Thankfully, Bruce Willis is the star. And that's the major difference between him and any of his contemporary movie stars. If you plonked any one of those muscle-bound walking…