Despite having a soft spot for this movie, I don't own it and have not seen it in years, so when it was on TV last night I watched it with my 15 year old son.
Plot In A Paragraph: The NSA has developed unbreakable code which they call MERCURY. They test it by putting it in a puzzle magazine. Simon Lynch, an autistic boy who has an affinity for puzzles sees it and deciphers it and calls the NSA. Kudrow (Alec Baldwin) the head in charge of MERCURY worried what might happen if this gets out orders that Simon be terminated. The man he sends kills his parents but is unable to find Simon and leaves when the police arrive. An FBI Agent who is in the bad books Art Jeffries (Brice Willis) finds Simon, who was hiding and takes him to the hospital. While there, the assassin takes another try but Art saves Simon and they go on the run.
Alec Baldwin is awful and some awful CGI and green screen DUI why should be intense moments, but that is more than made up for by the performances of both Bruce Willis (who is as charismatic as always) and even more so by Miko Hughes, who is simply superb as Simon.
My fifteen year old laughed at the wrong moments a few times ("how fake does that look??") but overall he enjoyed it, and I still think it's an above average Bruce Willis flick.
Plot In A Paragraph: The NSA has developed unbreakable code which they call MERCURY. They test it by putting it in a puzzle magazine. Simon Lynch, an autistic boy who has an affinity for puzzles sees it and deciphers it and calls the NSA. Kudrow (Alec Baldwin) the head in charge of MERCURY worried what might happen if this gets out orders that Simon be terminated. The man he sends kills his parents but is unable to find Simon and leaves when the police arrive. An FBI Agent who is in the bad books Art Jeffries (Brice Willis) finds Simon, who was hiding and takes him to the hospital. While there, the assassin takes another try but Art saves Simon and they go on the run.
Alec Baldwin is awful and some awful CGI and green screen DUI why should be intense moments, but that is more than made up for by the performances of both Bruce Willis (who is as charismatic as always) and even more so by Miko Hughes, who is simply superb as Simon.
My fifteen year old laughed at the wrong moments a few times ("how fake does that look??") but overall he enjoyed it, and I still think it's an above average Bruce Willis flick.