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Actors: Bruce Willis, Alec Baldwin, Miko Hughes, Chi McBride
Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Mercury Rising
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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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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