Movie
1998
Mercury Rising is a 1998 American action thriller film starring Bruce Willis and Alec Baldwin. Directed by Harold Becker, the film is based on Ryne Douglas Pearson's 1996 novel originally published as Simple Simon, which was the working title of the film. Willis plays Art Jeffries, an undercover FBI agent who protects a nine-year-old autistic boy, Simon Lynch, who is targeted by government assassins after he cracks…
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Hollywood formulas can at times be damaging even to the films that actually don't deserve to sink into mediocrity. Those films feature decent direction, decent acting and even the script hints of some sort of originality. However, by the time those films appear to cinemas or video stores, they prove to be pointless to everyone except to people who, by some chance, didn't watch a single film in their lives. *Mercury…More
