Mercury Rising

The earring in Art's left ear at Thomas' house.

In the ambulance, they skip the green card in Simon's collection, which is why they appear to be in a different order on the train.

In the subway tunnel, part of the supposedly stone wall moves when Jeffries brushes up against it.

When Art and Simon are caught between the trains, Art's hand moves from Simon's ear in different angles.

Waste bin in Leo's flat is under the desk when Leo throws the carbon paper away.

Yet when Emily finds bin, it is part way out from underneath desk.

When Emily walks into her boyfriend's apartment, her lips stop moving for a brief moment but she doesn't stop talking.

When Art Jeffries ('Bruce Willis' (qv)) is driving the stolen ambulance on the freeway, the assassin takes two shots at Bruce and Simon using a silenced pistol.

The second shot shatters the ambulance windshield; this is not possible since all windshields are laminated glass.

in reality, there would only be a small hole in the windshield, maybe the windshield would be cracked, but definitely not shattered.

When Art breaks the door to Simon's house, he closes it and the door clicks even though Art broke it.

When Art is driving the ambulance, we see it from the front, with the word "Ambulance" clearly readable.

However, the word is always printed in reverse on the front of an ambulance, so that it can be read by drivers looking in their rear-view mirror.

The film has not been flipped, because it's clear that Art is sitting in the ordinary driver's seat.

In the final part, when Stacey and Simon look to the huge building they about to enter outside it's still day light; after a few minutes, when they are on the roof of the building, outside looks like midnight.

On the bank's security camera video tape of Art and Dean crossing the street, knee pads are clearly visible beneath Dean's pants in preparation for his fall.

When Leo calls Dean to his office to hear the recording of Simon's call it is played back out of order.

The original was Leo asking, "Who is this?" and Simon responds, "You are a stranger.

" Then Leo asks where he got the number from and Simon gives the puzzle number and Leo asks, "What did you say?" then you hear Simon's mother telling him to hang up the phone.

The recording is played back with Leo asking "What did you say?" Then Simon's mother telling him to hang up the phone.

I'm sorry but I gave up on this about 10 minutes in. The idea that the FBI would storm a bank where a hostage situation was being played out, and with all guns blazing just doesn't work for me.

Art Jeffries (Bruce Willis) is the best FBI undercover agent. But a bad shootout leaves him an outcast.

I think many of the reviews are underestimating this movie. Interesting story Of an Autistic little boy mistakenly, cracking a CIA code.

I would call this movie a mum movie, because it is the type of movie that my mum would go and see, mixed with an action movie. I say this is because it is about an FBI agent who has to look after an autistic child while assassins are trying to kill him because the child is able to crack the governments super code.

Sunday afternoon classic, which I had probably already seen, but I had not remembered nor had I evaluated, the boy was very cute, good plot, convincing...

Bruce Willis provides his usual excellent performance and Alec Baldwin pulls out all the stops in his role as the villain, but Miko Hughes is the one who gets MY Academy Award for his portrayal of the autistic boy, Simon Lynch.His portrayal is profoundly accurate in every detail from his lack of eye contact to his attention to the tiniest details of life (eg: refusal to step on cracks on the ground).

Harold Becker directed this chase thriller that stars Bruce Willis as outcast FBI agent Art Jeffries, who is assigned to protect a nine-year old autistic boy named Simon Lynch(played by Miko Hughes) who has unknowingly deciphered a top secret NSA security code, which comes to the attention of a rogue NSA agent(played by Alec Baldwin) who orders Simon's death, prompting Art to take the boy on the run with him for protection, while he tries to find a way out of this deadly situation... Mediocre film has an interesting premise but becomes too routine and predictable, though both Willis and Hughes are fine, and the autistic angle is most worthwhile, but still underutilized.

This movie had a lot of potential to be good, but honestly.. it failed.

I'd have to admit that at the start - however politically incorrect it is to say - I though that the mix of Bruce Willis as an independently minded FBI agent and Miko Hughes ("Simon") as a boy genius with very loud, and annoying, autism was going to be a difficult film to sit through. Luckily, the initial in-your-face character establishment settles down and the somewhat preposterous plot takes over quite quickly.