Alec Baldwin, Bruce Willis, Chi McBride

Bruce Willis is an outcast FBI agent who is assigned to protect a 9 year old autistic boy who is the target for assassins after cracking a top secret government code.

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R, 112 min.

Directed by: Harold Becker

Release Date: April 3, 1998

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DVD Release Date: January 2, 2002

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  • October 2, 2009
    This film starts with a clever premise and could have been an intelligent thriller but ends up being boring, formulaic and dumb. I feel the question of 'Who is the real good guy' could have been explored more intelligently as the subject of collateral damage is raised, typically,...( read more) the bad guy/good guy is an asshole and gets kicked off a building. Are American courts empty?
  • February 5, 2009
    Typical movie for Bruce Willis. Bruce plays an FBI agent who goes with his gut feeling too often, whereas he is supposed to go with the facts.

    What is hard to believe in this movie is that the bad guy is another branch of the government. One has to hope that the NSA doesn't no...( read more)rmally go around shooting citizens for no good reason. Miko Hughes plays a convincing 9-year-old autistic boy.
  • December 7, 2008
    Overblown Willis actioner.
  • September 26, 2008
    I've seen this but I don't remember very much about it except the autistic boy cracks an important code.
  • January 1, 2008
    Bruce Willis stars as a demoted FBI agent who comes to the aid of an autistic boy. A classic film with Willis doing what he does best.
  • October 23, 2009
    Actually a pretty good movie
  • October 11, 2009
    Love this one great story line.
  • September 18, 2009
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  • September 11, 2009
    Pretty damn entertaining. Bruce Willis is awesome and Alec Baldwin is good in playing the villain.
  • September 10, 2009
    A veeery cool story!

    This movie is 1 of the most touching that my hero made.
    With Armageddon, Tears of the Sun and The Sixth Sense.
    Let's admitt that films with kids often are moving!

    This movie is anyways underrrated, not enough known I think.
    It deserved a greater success, e...( read more)ven if it's loved.

    The casting is very good, and I wanna make a special mention to Miko Hughes, the young boy, who, although his talent, totally disappeared since.
    Already 11 years passed, and I didn't hear about him for anything. He didn't have the same popularity than the other kid discovered with BW almost in the same time, I named Haley Joel Osment, in The Sixth Sense.
    I just checked imdb, and saw that Miko has an uncredited role in Tropic Thunder; maybe even cut off the last editing.
    I also saw he made a lot of movies and series since, but no 1 out of those movies came here, and Roswell, Boston public or Vero Mars aren't series I watch.
    Anyways, I think I could see him in the next years.

    The idea of the autistic kid who decipher a top secret government code has been used several times since, in movies or series, so, this film definitely inspired a lot of people, and it's normal, as the script is very well.
    I sadly don't have any of these titles in mind now.
    Oh yes, it's not the same, but I guess we can say that Knowing, with Nicolas Cage, is a bit inspired by Mercury Rising. But some films are more than it.

    Anyways, a great entertainment for the family. Not children, but teenagers and adults, all ages.

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