Mercy

MERCY starts off by lulling the viewer into believing he is watching a low-budget exploitative crime thriller, but unexpectedly the film turns into an incisive character study. The cast, especially John Rubinstein, Amber Kain, and Sam Rockwell, does a great job throughout. The only weak point is a very distracting, gratuitous scene in which the Rubinstein character meets a psychotic arms merchant, but this interruption is brief, and the plot soon picks up and builds to a satisfying climax.

This is the first Richard Shepard movie I have seen, and I plan to view more of his work as the opportunity presents.

No, wait - it IS a train wreck. Did ANYBODY view this thing before releasing it? Some of the acting in this is worse than I've seen in High School productions, believe me!

The only reason to keep watching is to see if it ever gets better, or how much worse the direction / dialog / acting (using that term loosely here) can get. Was hoping for some sort of redemption, but don't waste your time like I did.

Truly - this was a waste of film or whatever they shot it on. Sam Rockwell should hire someone to burn the masters.

It's 90 minutes I'll never get back.

I first saw this movie in 1997, and I can't help but to watch it every time it runs. This is grand movie. It did not take a whole lotta money to make such an amazing film, either! Amber Kain who played Ruby, is brilliant, she's beautiful, and she has so much talent. It is such a shame that she does not get many roles. Amber, you made "Mercy" the smashing film that it is!

this is some of the worst, most cliched writing i've seen in a while...terrible direction and horrible lighting and photography, not to mention the stilted acting, with the exception of the maid and sam rockwell. poor sam rockwell puts in an energetic performance only to be destroyed by how badly the shots were set up adn the editing...oh my god! what a boring, terrible, cliched film...the first 2 minutes lets you know...WASTE OF TIME AND MONEY!!! BORING! BORING! BORING!

Glad his father wasn't alive to see it. A trashy, paperback novel. I watched this film because it was the only thing available during an attack of insomnia. John used to be a super actor.

I prefer to be succinct, but the damn guidelines of this site insist that I have at least 10 lines of text.

The writer before me described the film as being 'intense'. I found the film to be intensely boring and trivial.

No merit whatsoever, the only good actor was the child.

The only films ABC airs in the early morning are the ones no one wants to rent from Netflix or BlockBuster. I am being forced to comment about the film and it is difficult to continue on a negative note.

I do not recommend this film.