The United States government is about to launch its brand new super code. Impossible to break, or so they thought until it was broken by a nine year old autistic boy. Now the bodies are piling up to keep it secret and the mercury is rising. The NSA has developed what they believe is an unbreakable code which they call MERCURY. Now they ran a test to see if anyone can decipher the code by putting it in a puzzle magazine. Now Simon Lynch, an autistic boy who has an affinity for puzzles sees it and deciphers it and calls the NSA. Concerned the men in charge call their boss Kudrow and inform of what happened. Kudrow 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. The police call the FBI to send someone to take a report of Simon who is missing and the man they send Art Jeffries is not exactly in good standing with the FBI because of an incident that occurred recently and is also not exactly OK because of the incident. Art 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. Well, not the worst movie I've ever seen that's for sure. Basically watchable, but definitely not worth the price of a movie ticket. I don't get the other Australians' comments about not understanding the significance of the Mercury code, maybe they were watching the expurgated version or just lost interest?!? Anyway, a few things stand out about this movie that were just laughable; first, the bionic man sound effect whenever Simon looks at the code second, 'the child is retarded. He's autistic' 'oh, autistic, well that explains it, he must be a savant' 'oh, of course, a savant' 'what's a savant?' Sheesh, have these people never seen Rainman? Obviously codes will have to be run past autistic people from now on. and thirdly, the best bit, when Bruce Willis kicks the crap out of Alec Baldwin when he starts on his 'hooray America' patriotism speech in the wine cellar. Exactly what I would have liked to have done anytime movies lapse into that 'America is so great and you should sacrifice everything for your country' crap. The plot is so stupid i had to turn the TV off.<br/><br/>1. WTF does "the code" (Mercury) refer to? A secret key? Or a new encryption method? <br/><br/>2. If it is a new secret encryption method and its strength is that is "secret"…then it is doomed to be broken one day! The "method" should not be secret…but the "key" should! <br/><br/>3. If someone can break your encoded messages…increase the size of the key! <br/><br/>BTW, why is everyone trying to tell the story of this film in their comments?? The outline is already easy to find on IMDb! <br/><br/>/M Contrived, slapdash and utterly false, this action thriller with a cynically soft center exemplifies the worst end-product of contemporary Hollywood formulas.
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