Mercury Rising

Data

This movie came out in 1998 and it was directed by Harold Becker. The starring actors are Bruce Willis and Miko Hughes. The movie’s genre is   action/suspense.

Plot

Art Jeffries (Bruce Willis), is an FBI Agent and he is a specialist in undercover agent. One day he fails in an infiltration investigation of a bank robbery, and he is ordered by his boss to become an investigator in a general case. Then Simon Lynch (Miko Hughes), who was a child with autism, looked at a puzzle magazine, and he salved a certain puzzle and called the number that he knew in the puzzle from his house. It was related to "Mercury" which was a state secret. The puzzle was supposed to be undecipherable even by super computers, but it was decoded by him, so the organization was going to assassinate him and his parents. His parents are killed by the organization, but he was saved because he hid, and now Art will handle the case. It was thought that this case was a family suicide, but Art was in suspicious, and he discovers Simon who was hiding. Thereafter, Art knows that Simon is hunted by  the organization, and a desperate struggle to protect him begins.

Impression

I thought that the performance of the child who has autism was very splendid. My favorite scene is the last scene. I thought that their friendship was splendid. I was excited about this movie from beginning to end.