Please! Have Mercy! Don't watch this film! Mercy is a mediocre murder mystery. A serial killer is murdering women, cleaning the bodies and cutting off the eyelids. Detective Catherine Palmer (Ellen Barkin) who leads the investigation uncovers a group of social elite women involved in a secret lesbian club. All of the women who have been killed have been members of this club. Palmer's investigation leads her into the lesbian club, which also intersects an S&M community, and finally a psychologist who likes to cross-dress after hours.

That is everything that is good about this film. It ain't much, is it? In fact, if you remove the titillation of the alternative lifestyles, this is a very piss-poor detective film. Even when you figure out who did it, you never really understand why. The film is a writing and editing disaster!

Skip this! You want to see weird stuff? There's plenty of weird films out there. Some of them are better written.

Sucks and Blows!

Film Facts

Cast
• Ellen Barkin
• Wendy Crewson
• Peta Wilson
• Karen Young
• Julian Sands
• Stephen Baldwin
• Marshall Bell
• Beau Starr
• Bill MacDonald
• Stewart Bick
• Ellen-Ray Hennessy
• Lara Daans
• Claire Burton
• Fulvio Cecere
• Zerha Leverman
• Suzanne Stuch
• Danielle Marie Straus
• Linda Carter
• Gene Mack
• Robert B. Kennedy
• Lauren Piech
• Kevin Rushton
• Dorothy Bennie
• Doug Lennox
• Jacqueline McLeod
• Aemilia Robinson
• Jean Daigle
• Michael Fletcher
• Wendy Lum
• Alex Ross

Directed by Damian Harris

Released in 1999

MPAA Rating: R

Reviewed by Mongo