1998 · action · crime · drama
Mercury Rising
Directed by Harold Becker1h 51m1998
Renegade FBI agent Art Jeffries protects a nine-year-old autistic boy who has cracked the government's new "unbreakable" code.
Our read: Mercury Rising (1998) reads as a heavy, breathless, grounded action · crime · drama entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, breathless, extreme action / crime, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, epic, cold.
- heavy
- kinetic
- extreme
- twisty
Watching Mercury Rising tonight? Spin for your lens.
Everyone on the couch spins once and gets one craft to watch for. After the credits, compare what you caught.
Your lens for tonight
?
Everyone on the couch gets one craft to watch for. Spin the wheel to get yours. Sound on: the narrator reads your mission.
More info & search links
How Mercury Rising feels to watch.
Each axis is scored by hand, not from votes or genre averages. The bar uses the film's own colours.
What watching it is actually like.
“You want nineties Willis protecting a kid in a clean code-breaking conspiracy thriller.”
Skip it tonight — You cannot stomach dated autism portrayal or routine government-conspiracy plotting.
Eight films that feel like this one.
Closest in the twelve-axis space, not “people also liked”. All films like Mercury Rising, with why →
Discussion
Make it a movie night.
Pick a mood, get a film the whole couch will enjoy, and give everyone something to watch for.
Pick tonight's film →