Das Mercury Puzzle

Originaltitel: Mercury Rising

1998
16
1 Std. 51 Min.

IMDb-BEWERTUNG

6,1/10

79.143

IHRE BEWERTUNG

BELIEBTHEIT

4.731

2.998

Bruce Willis in Das Mercury Puzzle (1998)

Action Crime Drama Thriller

Schattenhafte Elemente in der NSA ermorden einen neun jährigen Autisten wenn er in der Lage ist ihren streng geheimen Code zu knacken.Schattenhafte Elemente in der NSA ermorden einen neun jährigen Autisten wenn er in der Lage ist ihren streng geheimen Code zu knacken.Schattenhafte Elemente in der NSA ermorden einen neun jährigen Autisten wenn er in der Lage ist ihren streng geheimen Code zu knacken.

Siehe Produktionsinformationen bei IMDbPro

IMDb-BEWERTUNG

6,1/10

79.143

IHRE BEWERTUNG

BELIEBTHEIT

4.731

2.998

Siehe Produktionsinformationen bei IMDbPro

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Miko Hughes spent time with many autistic children at a special school to understand how to portray an autistic child. Bennett Leventhal, head of the child psychiatry department at the University of Chicago, spent six weeks before the shoot tutoring Hughes at a school for autistic children. Leventhal complimented Hughes at the movie's premiere, saying, "even I believed you."

Patzer
On the bank's security camera video tape of Art and Dean crossing the street, knee pads are visible beneath Dean's pants in preparation for his fall.

Zitate
Nick Kudrow: I asked you not to handle the wine, please!
Art Jeffries: You know, it's good to see you've got your priorities in order.
[takes a slug from another bottle]
Art Jeffries: That's better. You're not worried about murdering a nine year-old boy but you're worried about this fuckin' wine!
[he breaks another bottle and Kudrow winces]

Alternative Versionen
The German TV-Channel RTL cut all of the violence out of the movie, in order to broadcast it on an earlier time spot (8:15 PM).

Verbindungen
Featured in Siskel & Ebert & the Movies: The Newton Boys/Meet the Deedles/The Proposition/A Price Above Rubies/No Looking Back (1998)

Soundtracks
Evil (Is Going On)
Written by Willie Dixon
Performed by KoKo Taylor
Courtesy of Alligator Records

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7/10

Better Circa 2004

I just watcehd this on DVD, loved it and was literally stunned to find that most people, in particular those that write movie reviews for a living slated this.

Maybe its because in 2004, some six years after its original release we are seeing a revival of the action/thriller (Bourne Supremacy etc).

So, what didn't I like, not much. I would like to have seen more made of the kids codebreaking, they could really have milked that and didn't, the opening scene was just to cliché in setting up Willis's character as were the characters of his big black boss and hard nosed chief. The very last scene was typical US syrup but was thankfully very short.

What was good? everything else, I loved the idea behind the story, Miko Hughes is totally amazing to the point I had to check the next day to find out how the hell they managed to get a autistic kid to act (is isn't autistic but is a damn fine actor), Willis really does add vulnerability to a role that he has played many times before, with the movie underpinned fantastically with a John Barry soundscore and Harold Becker carefully crafts what for me was a very enjoyable movie watching experience and stands head and shoulders above many I have seen recently. 3/5 for me