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Actors: Bruce Willis, Alec Baldwin, Miko Hughes, Chi McBride
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Mercury Rising |
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Bruce Willis stars as an FBI agent protecting a nine year old autistic boy who has inadvertantly cracked a secret government code. Alex Baldwin is the corrupt government agent who will stop at nothing to ensure the safety of the code, including killing the child. This is a taut game of cat and mouse through Washington DC as Art Jeffries (Willis) struggles to defend those who can't defend themselves.
--Alex Emborsky, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of Mercury Rising |
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 20%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 30%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 50%
Time/Era of Movie:
- 1980's-1999
Legal/Political Thriller?
Yes
Political Plotlets:
- govt officials abusing power
Crime & Police Story?
Yes
Crime story:
- hunted by killer/stalker
Criminal enemy is...
- corrupt military
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- police/lawman
Age:
- 40's-50's
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
Hair color?
- brunette (Brown)
Hair style
- short/standard straight (man)
Body type
- muscular (man)
Events of movie makes character more...
- sensitive
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- hard edged
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- very athletic
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Hair color
- brunette (Brown)
Hair style
- (man) short/standard straight
How much in movie?
- 90%-100%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 40's-50's
Profession/status:
- govt employee
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 60%
Hair color
- brunette (Brown)
Hair type
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- average (man)
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- average physique
How sensitive is this character?
- mean, arrogant
Setting
City?
Yes
City:
- Washington D.C.
Misc setting
- moving train
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- moderately messy visuals of dead
Movie makes you feel...
- concerned
How many deaths in film?
- 8 or more
How much use of techno gadgets?
- 3 ()
Kind of violence:
- mission to protect something
- mental battles
- karate chop
- hand to hand
- guns
- knives
Unusual forms of death
- dropped from large heights
- perforation--bullets
- blunt clubbing (like seals)
Any profanity?
- Some foul language
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