Storyline
Yachtsman Donald Crowhurst's disastrous attempt to win the 1968 Golden Globe Race ends up with him creating an outrageous account of traveling the world alone by sea.
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Cast
Simon Chandler, David Thewlis, Colin Firth, Simon McBurney, Rachel Weisz, Ken Stott, Sam Hoare, Genevieve Gaunt, Tim Downie, Sebastian Armesto, Anna Madeley, Mark Gatiss, Andrew Buchan, Greg Hicks, Paul Thornley, Martin Marquez, Stuart Davidson, Laurence Spellman, Laurence Spellman, Adrian Schiller, Oliver Maltman, Bruce Mackinnon, Dorothy Atkinson, Dilyana Bouklieva, Kit Connor, Jonathan Bailey, Eleanor Stagg, Finn Elliot, Avye Leventis, Richard Teverson, Richard Blaine, Robert Elphick, Mark Davison, Geoff Bladon, Maynard Crowe, Alexia Traverse-Healy, Kerry Godliman
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Reviews
80
Empire
Despite the hint of a stiff-upper-lip kind of reserve, this is astonishingly brutal. And Firth’s performance makes this dark, dark story land.
80
Firth is terrific in an unbelievable-but-true tale that charts a course from the ridiculous to the profound.
70
Directed with even-keeled intelligence by James Marsh, and buoyed by a performance of customary reserve and resolve from Colin Firth, The Mercy tells its story...about as well as it can be told. Yet there’s no denying it’s a muted, disconsolate affair, one that by necessity shrinks before viewers’ eyes into something less rousing and noble than what they were initially promised.
60
The later stretches, which are forced to become oblique and symbolic in the absence of any hard evidence about what really happened to the sailor, showcase some of Firth’s best screen work.
50
This unresolved maritime mystery feels oddly flat and functional, diluting a tragic tale full of unanswered questions into an anodyne middlebrow weepie.
