Thursday, November 24, 2016

New Netflix Movie "Mercy" Makes You Feel Bad About Yourself.

Don't waste your thanksgiving holidays on this. Seriously. Watch something else.  But, if you have already watched it and need some validation for your disappointment, or if you want to know exactly why this movie is so bad, then this is the article for you. Walking Dean Merchandise
   It's a home-invasion thriller. No, it's a family-drama.  Wait, there's something really heavy going on here.  A dying money with lots of money is going to leave the inheritance to her family. And four siblings show up to fight over it.  But maybe they should euthanize her.  Right?  And if she dies now, or later, that somehow affects this serious, heavy tension that's going down.  But, the characters talk vague enough, that you begin to think, "maybe, I'm not getting it at all.  Maybe I'm dumb.  Maybe I just don't watch movies the right way. " 

So you keep watching.  And you get to the end.  And you get a little bit of an answer, but not only is it not satisfying, it also leaves you bitter, as if first noticing your own mortality, you realize that you have wasted the past hour and a half watching something that was......really.....really......boring. 
-CLINT SABOM








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