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Mercury Rising (1998)

Directed by Harold Becker

Renegade FBI agent Art Jeffries protects a nine-year-old autistic boy who has cracked the government's new "unbreakable" code.

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Safe poster
Luke’s attempt to protect 11-year-old, super-intelligent Mei (Catherine Chan) recalls the 1998 Bruce-Willis-protects-a-code-breaking-boy-with-autism vehicle “Mercury Rising,” a movie I didn’t see but occupied myself trying to remember while Luke was busy punching and shooting in the many sub-standard action sequences writer-director Boaz Yakin coughs up between lines like, “Let’s go to war.”
Midnight Special poster
A cozily Spielbergian story of a dad and his son and the bigger forces who are out to get them is rendered in Nichols’s usual earthy, muscular tones, so that little of Midnight Special plays in the key of schmaltz it easily could have—and did, in the similarly plotted Mercury Rising , a 1998 misfire in which Bruce Willis went on the lam with an autistic boy with government secrets locked away in his mind.
Richard Lawson • Vanity Fair • Mar 15, 2016
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This set-up all sounds rather good, of course, and were it not for the splice-happy editing, the film might have come off as a sort of Deep South E.T. via Mercury Rising.
Rory O'Connor • The Film Stage • Feb 13, 2016
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Knowing poster
But this sci-fi tale, directed by Alex Proyas (“Dark City,” “The Crow”) and based on a story by Ryne Douglas Pearson (who wrote the novel “Mercury Rising” was based on), moves with urgency and unflagging energy.
Eric D. Snider • Eric D. Snider • Mar 20, 2009
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