Overview"Mercury Rising" is a 1998 suspense thriller movie directed by Harold Becker, featuring prominent stars such as Bruce Willis and Miko Hughes. The movie revolves around an unique plot of cryptography, secret codes, and the tale of a nine-year-old autistic young boy who unwittingly puts his life in threat by splitting an impenetrable governmental super-code. The film uses an interesting blend of nerve-wracking thriller and emotional drama.
PlotThe movie starts with an enigmatic U.S. federal government super-code called MERCURY created to conceal delicate intelligence details from external hazards. This extremely protected code is unexpectedly broken by an autistic 9-year-old young boy called Simon Lynch (Miko Hughes) which signals the National Security Agency (NSA). The NSA, under the leadership of Lieutenant Colonel Nicholas Kudrow (Alec Baldwin), intended MERCURY to be invulnerable and fears its direct exposure could threaten national security. Simon, without understanding the strength and value of the code, only sees it as a puzzle due to his remarkable intelligence.
ConflictUpon finding out that a kid has actually split the MERCURY, Kudrow starts a clean-up operation fearing the leakage. He purchases a hit on Simon's family in an attempt to maintain the code's secrecy in addition to national security. Simon narrowly leaves the brutal madness, becoming the target of unrelenting pursuit. Nevertheless, the murder of Simon's moms and dads and the risk presented to him, brings an FBI representative, Art Jeffries (Bruce Willis), into the image.
Relation and ResolutionArt Jeffries, a disgraced FBI agent at first on the case of Simon's moms and dads' murders, ends up being the young boy's protector. Jeffries, benched after his own issues with the Bureau and finding little faith from his superiors regarding Simon's case, takes matters into his own hands. Despite a lack of support from the law enforcement neighborhood, he commits himself to protect Simon from the federal government assassins. The film gradually reveals Jeffries' bond with Simon and his ruthless efforts to safeguard him.
In the climax, Jeffries confronts Kudrow and his team, managing to save Simon while revealing the conspiracy. The movie ends with Jeffries making sure the kid's security and Kudrow's plans being exposed.
Conclusion"Mercury Rising" is an engaging thriller that checks out themes of nationwide security, fate, and the unique abilities of an autistic child. Through Jeffries' viewpoint, audiences perceive the federal organization's single-minded pursuit of its own agenda, and its preparedness to eliminate a child to secure a trick. The film highlights the vulnerability of those with unique needs and mixes it nicely with aspects of suspenseful action, therefore delivering a gripping and psychological narrative.
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