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Mercury Rising
MEANRANK
53/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #4972
- IMDb #4389
- Google retired #2247
- Rotten Tomatoes #4730
- Metacritic #4402
- Letterboxd #4372
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- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #5087
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #4569
- Metacritic Critics #4442
- Metacritic Audience #4015
- Criticker #3270
- Kinopoisk #2750
- AlloCiné #4028
- Trakt #3800
Every rating
Split
Lowest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 21, highest is Google on 84. Critics average 29, everyone else 58.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →The FBI and NSA hunt for a nine-year-old autistic boy who has unknowingly cracked an unbreakable government code by solving a puzzle in a magazine. A renegade FBI agent discovers that rather than protecting the child, the agencies have marked him for elimination to protect their secret. The agent goes on the run with the boy, using his own tactical skills to protect the innocent child from the nation's most powerful intelligence forces.
Details
- Director
- Harold Becker
- Writers
- Lawrence Konner, Mark Rosenthal
- Based on
- Simple Simon by Ryne Douglas Pearson
- Released
- 3 April 1998
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 111 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $60.0M
- Box office
- $93.1M
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