Mercury Rising lays the action on thick, but can never find a dramatic pulse to keep viewers -- or Bruce Willis -- engaged with its maudlin story.
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Movie Info
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Director -
Harold Becker -
Producer -
Brian Grazer , Karen Kehela Sherwood -
Screenwriter -
Ryne Douglas Pearson , Lawrence Konner , Mark Rosenthal -
Distributor -
Universal Pictures -
Production Co -
Universal Pictures , Imagine Entertainment -
Rating -
R (Violence|Language) -
Genre -
Mystery & Thriller , Action -
Original Language -
English -
Release Date (Theaters) -
Apr 3, 1998, Wide -
Release Date (Streaming) -
Mar 18, 2014 -
Box Office (Gross USA) -
$32.9M -
Runtime -
1h 52m -
Sound Mix -
Dolby SR , DTS , Dolby Stereo , Surround , SDDS , Dolby A , Dolby Digital -
Aspect Ratio -
Scope (2.35:1)