Mercury Rising

Mercury Rising (1998) is a crime thriller you can watch online on iFILM. Bruce Willis plays Art Jeffries, a burned-out FBI agent assigned to protect a nine-year-old autistic boy who accidentally cracked a top-secret government cipher.

The boy, Simon, reads "Mercury" — a billion-dollar code the intelligence community swore was unbreakable — as easily as other kids stack blocks. To the agency that makes him a liability, not a marvel. Program chief Nick Kudrow (Alec Baldwin) signs off on erasing the child as a security leak. Jeffries, fresh off a botched operation and done trusting anyone, hides Simon and goes up against his own people alone.

Director Harold Becker leans on the mismatch: a worn-down operative and a kid who flinches at touch and won't meet your eyes, yet sees what every adult around him misses. Miko Hughes, Chi McBride and Peter Stormare fill out the cast. Stream Mercury Rising (1998) online on iFILM.