Film Review – Mercy (2023)

Everyone loves a good “Die Hard” knockoff, but the trick is that the film has to put in the effort to be worthy of the John McClane saga, and this includes the latter “Die Hard” sequels. “Mercy” is the latest production hoping to deliver the action goods with a similar plot of a lone hero going up against invading terrorists in a single location, and while the screenplay by Alex Wright (“Nantucket Noel,” “Christmas in Rome,” “A Family Christmas Gift”) liberally lifts the vibe of the 1988 action cinema masterpiece, it’s not entirely clear if Wright was really paying attention to the specifics of “Die Hard” while replicating it for this B-movie. “Mercy” has the story and the setting, but director Tony Dean Smith (“Volition”) doesn’t have the pace or the right amount of punishment with the endeavor, which goes too soft too quickly, unable to shake its low-budget limitations. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com