Author: Bruce Willis

Format: NTSC

Release Date: 09-02-1999

Details: Product description Mercury Rising - VHS - 1999 - VHS - short for Video Home System is a standard for consumer-level analog video recording on tape cassettes developed by Victor Company of Japan. It was put on the market in 1976 and uses magnetic tape 1/2 inch (1.27 cm) in width. Amazon.ca Take off your thinking caps and toss 'em in a corner, 'cuz you won't need 'em when you're watching this deliriously dumb thriller from 1997. Bruce Willis stars as a demoted FBI agent who comes to the aid of an autistic boy whose mind holds a potentially deadly secret. It seems that by gazing on a puzzle magazine and making order out of a hidden system of numbers, the 9-year-old autistic boy (Miko Hughes) has accidentally deciphered a sophisticated top-secret government code. This makes him the prime target of the ruthless bureaucrat (Alec Baldwin, in one of his silliest roles), and Willis comes to the rescue. This formulaic thriller sets up this plot with a lot of entertaining urgency, but you can't give any thought to Mercury Rising or the whole movie collapses under the weight of its own illogic and nonsense. The redeeming values are the performances of Willis, young Hughes, and newcomer Kim Dickens as a woman who agrees (perhaps too easily, it seems) to aid Willis in his plot to outmaneuver the bad guys. Mercury Rising is not a waste of time compared to other formulaic thrillers, but its entertainment value depends on how much you enjoy being smarter than the movie. --Jeff Shannon

UPC: 009689835903

EAN: 9780783225302

Languages: English

Binding: VHS Tape

Item Condition: New