Mercury Rising (1998)

Calificación de los usuarios:

5.7/10   

Director:

Harold Becker

Escritores (WGA):

Ryne Douglas Pearson (novel)
Lawrence Konner (screenplay) ...

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

3 abril 1998 (USA)

Género:

Acción | Drama | Suspenso

Frase comercial:

Someone knows too much.

Plot:

Bruce Willis is an outcast FBI agent who is assigned to protect a 9 year old autistic boy who is the...

Plot Keywords:

Code | Boy | FBI | Assassin | NSA

Premios:

2 wins

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Killed by its own premise

Reparto

Bruce Willis	...	Art Jeffries
Alec Baldwin	...	Nicholas Kudrow
Miko Hughes	...	Simon
Chi McBride	...	Tommy B. Jordan
Kim Dickens	...	Stacey
Robert Stanton	...	Dean Crandell
Bodhi Elfman	...	Leo Pedranski (as Bodhi Pine Elfman)
Carrie Preston	...	Emily Lang
Lindsey Ginter	...	Burrell (as L.L. Ginter)
Peter Stormare	...	Shayes
Kevin Conway	...	Lomax
John Carroll Lynch	...	Martin Lynch
Kelley Hazen	...	Jenny Lynch
John Doman	...	Supervisor Hartley
Richard Riehle	...	Edgar Halstrom

También conocida como:

Mercury Falling (USA) (working title)
Simon (USA) (working title)
Simon Says (USA) (working title)
Simple Simon (USA) (working title)
Al rojo vivo (Spain) [es]
Alguien sabe demasiado (Argentina) (original subtitled version) [es]
Mercury Rising (Spain) [es]
Misión - Máxima seguridad (Mexico) [es]

MPAA:

Rated R for violence and language.

Duración:

111 min

País:

USA

Idioma:

Inglés

Color:

Color (Eastmancolor)

Relación de Aspecto:

2.35 : 1

Sonido:

DTS | Dolby Digital | SDDS | DTS-Stereo

Clasificación:

Iceland:16 | Canada:14 (Nova Scotia) | Canada:14A (Alberta/British Columbia/Manitoba) | Denmark:15 | Canada:AA (Ontario) | South Korea:15 (original rating) | Argentina:13 | Australia:M | Belgium:KT | Chile:14 | Finland:K-16 | France:U | Germany:16 (w) | Netherlands:16 | Norway:15 | Portugal:M/12 | Singapore:PG | Sweden:15 | Switzerland:12 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:12 (canton of Vaud) | UK:15 | USA:R | South Korea:18 (DVD rating) | Ireland:15 | Italy:T | Spain:13 | Canada:13+ (Quebec)

Locaciones de Filmación:

Chicago, Illinois, USA

Compañía:

Imagine Entertainment

Trivialidades:

Actor Miko Hughes spent time with many autistic children at a special school. He also worked with a Chicago child psychologist to understand how to portray an autistic child.

Errores:

Continuidad: When Art and Simon are caught between the trains, Art's hand moves from Simon's ear in different angles.

Citas:

[first lines]
FBI Supervisor Hartley: Let's go down.

Conexiones de Película:

Apareció en Watch the Mercury Rising (1999) (V)

Banda de Sonido:

Evil (Is Going On)

Killed by its own premise

This movie has one huge problem: *its basic premise makes no sense at all*. Killing the kid is in absolutely nobody's interest. His codebreaking skill would be of immeasurable value to the very people who are trying to kill him, while safeguarding the code without killing him would be fairly straightforward. This is so obvious that it essentially ruins the whole movie.

The rest of the movie is OK if you ignore that problem. The performances are generally good, and Miko Hughes is excellent as Simon. There is nothing here you haven't seen a dozen times before, but it's generally well done. It's not worth making any real effort to see this movie, but you probably won't have a bad time if you do.