Welcome to Mercy

Well I watched the entire movie from start to finish. It was quite a ride. The plot is jumbled together and often leaves the viewer confused as scenes seem to skip without context. In the end it seems to make sense of things but the majority of the movie is laid out in a way that is less than satisfying to sit down and watch.

What I mean by that is that the movie doesn't flow very well. This happens, then that happens... then this happens and you're just scratching your head trying to piece together what in the world it is that you're watching.

It's a film that makes you wonder why would anyone bother to release it when it feels so mangled and incomplete. This movie should not have gotten a green light. It's really kind of amateurish and underdone. The film work was all over the place. Giant closeups of peoples faces to the point you could see their pores and blemishes, overly dark scenes where you can't see anything, the fish eye cam that looks like it was done with a go-pro... all the worst cinematography you can imagine is in this.

The acting... you can't blame an actor when the plot of a movie is as bad as this one. The acting was fine and decent. I don't believe that is what made this movie fall apart. It's the story itself and the filming. The production of this movie is an atrocity that should be exorcised itself. I actually couldn't wait for it to be over and it also happened to be one of those movies that wants to have a "gotcha" ending. The cherry on top of the awful movie cake.

Watch it as your own risk.

Kept a slow pace all through movie. Nothing outstanding during or the ending .

Very unique spin on the Exorcism genre but you'll have to wait until the 3rd act (the reveal) for you to really appreciate it the film on a whole. It's well acted, very atmospheric, but the it's pretty slow until you get to the finale. It relied too heavily on the twist at the end and that wasn't enough to carry the entire film.

Take Sixth Sense of example. The big twist is what made that movie awesome, but even without the twist it's still a good entertaining film. That's all that needed to happen Welcome to Mercy, because they had everything else going for it. Just wish they would have spent more time developing the first 2/3 of the story as well as the did the end, then this could have made it's way up the ranks of exorcism classics. Missed opportunity here. But again, very unique take on it. I commend the writer for that.

Beatus or Welcome To Mercy? Another movie with a confusing title. Is it one or the other, or is it both? Nobody really cares, but it's just confusing, just like the plot of the movie. It was way too confusing to keep me fully interested for the entire movie. Sometimes a simplier story telling is just way more effective than trying to be clever or artistic. The acting wasn't terrible, just not amazing either. There was definitely a dark ambiance due to the filming and soundtrack but the story just failed, it just fell unfinished and rushed at one point, or at least to me it did.

Atmospheric movie, great acting, good musical scores however not very well executed in terms of great story telling. There were many confusing moments, boring noir scenes, and dark depressing feeling of hopelessness, which I understand is the aim of the producers. However the confusingness of the whole ordeal left much to be desired.