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Mercury Rising

1998 · Movie · 108 min

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Scores

  • Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer21%as of 2026-01-15
  • Rotten Tomatoes average4.4/10as of 2021-10-05
  • Metacritic37/100as of 2026-01-15

What it is

Mercury Rising is a 1998 American action thriller film starring Bruce Willis and Alec Baldwin. Directed by Harold Becker, the film is based on Ryne Douglas Pearson's 1996 novel originally published as Simple Simon, which was the working title of the film.

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Genres
Action / Thriller / Crime / Drama
Original language
English

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