MERCY
US, 2023, 85 minutes, Colour.
Leah Gibson, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Jon Voight, Sebastien Roberts, Anthony Konechny, Patrick Roccas, Anthony Bolognese.
Directed by Tony Dean Smith.
Mercy is a brief action thriller, set in the American city. However, there is an introduction to the central character, a doctor serving overseas, the situation with the soldier struck with bombs, her husband, his excluding the bomb to save her. They have a son.
That the action takes place at the Mercy Hospital, sympathetic doctor, Michelle talented surgeon, pleasant domestic situation with her son’s birthday and the gift of a ball.
In the meantime, the FBI have arrested the presumed he had to a criminal gang, Irish background, who dominate in the city, led by the patriarch, played by Jon Voight, and his psychopathic son, played by Jonathan Rhys Meyers. The criminals ambush the FBI, the son shoots his brother who survives and is rushed to hospital.
Most of the action, familiar enough but always with some tension, is the patriarch and the members of the gang arriving at the hospital, the patriarch wanting a peaceful restitution of his son, the psychopathic son intent on covering his shooting his brother, and with some psychopathic henchmen.
The focus on is on Michelle, Leah Gibson, highly decorated military, martial arts expert, tactics, guns. While she is able to shield the wounded man with the help of a rookie FBI agent, she hides her son in a locker but, he is discovered and becomes the porn for an exchange.
It all builds up to 10 situations, the kindly doctor bomb strapped to him, to intervene with the FBI outside the besieged hospital, hostages, his setting of the explosion to save others. And, within the hospital, the fears, accreditation between father and son, building up to a confrontation between the psychopath and Michele, saved by a swift move by the son.
Brief, popular action.
- American gangster thriller? The Irish background?
- The title, the hospital? Themes of mercy and not forgiving?
- The introduction, Michelle, overseas service, doctor, patience and trauma, her husband, the bomb, is detonating it to save her? At home, surgeons skills? Relationship with her son?
- Quinn gang, the arrest of Ryan, interrogation, his silence, intended as the heir to Patty? The threats? The FBI? Transporting him, surveillance by the gang, Sean and his intervention, the pursuit, the ambush, the shootout, Sean and his shooting Ryan? The shooting of the agents? Taking the victims to the Mercy Hospital?
- Dr Terrance, the hospital, friendship with Michelle? Will be on his birthday, the gift of the ball, the plans for the football match? The arrival of the victims? Michelle going to help? Bobby waiting, the encounter with Patty, the friendly talk? The setup for the ambush in the hospital, the siege, and Michelle hiding Bobby in the cupboard?
- Patty, patriarchal status, favouring Ryan, his criticisms of Sean? The golf game, his associate, the hospital, the interrogations, wanting to find his son? Sean and the gang, the wild young man, his shooting the hospital clerk, and his severing his ear?
- The contrast with the techniques? Patty, wanting his son, wanting no violence? Sean, covering himself for shooting his brother, his henchmen, the reactions to the shootings?
- The rookie FBI agent, moving Ryan, Michelle and the treatment, her quick thinking, the attacks, her martial arts schools, and shooting, drawing on her military experience?
- Confrontation between Paddy and Sean, the truth is told, the anger? The physical conflict, and he wounded, surviving and taken away in the ambulance?
- The hostages, the threats, finding the clown and his group, joining the others? The security man, initially asking for parking fees, his being knocked out, Michelle want him to disconnect the surveillance? Her skills, hiding Ryan, attending him? The buildup to the confrontations, the deaths?
- Finding Bobby, his being held as hostages, for the exchange? The final confrontation between Sean and Michelle, his holding Bobby, will be kicking him, Michelle shooting Sean?
- Popular action material?
