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www.boxoffice.com - : ''Mercury Rising'' is a formula Bruce Willis movie, save for the fact that it has fewer corpses and explosions than a ''Die Hard'' script. Willis stars as Art Jeffries, a pill-popping renegade FBI agent in search of redemption. He becomes the self-appointed bodyguard to Simon (Miko Hughes), a nine-year-old autistic child whose parents have been murdered. Unable to communicate on anything more than a simple level with the outside world, Simon lives primarily in his head. He does, however, possess a highly analytical mind and a passion for puzzles. When Simon solves a puzzle and innocently cracks `Mercury,' the supposedly unbreakable code just introduced by the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) to safeguard undercover agents, the action begins. Head of the NSA Lt. Colonel Nicholas Kudrow (Alec Baldwin), reluctant to admit that his Mercury code is fallible, orders Simon and his parents killed. more...
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