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With: Leah Gibson, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Jon VoightSebastien Roberts, Anthony Konechny, Patrick Roccas, Anthony Bolognese, Mike Dopud, Marc-Anthony Massiah, Mark Masterton, Ryan Russell, Bobby Stewart, Bradley Stryker, Caitlin Stryker
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Written by: Alex Wright
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Directed by: Tony Dean Smith
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MPAA Rating: R for violence, bloody images and pervasive language
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Running Time: 85
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Date: 05/12/2023
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Losing Patients
By Jeffrey M. Anderson
This Die-Hard-in-a-Hospital action movie almost works; it's lean and efficient, but it's also just a little bit too ridiculous as well as not very bright, and at the same time, fatally un-self-aware.
Michelle Miller (Leah Gibson) is a former military doctor who lost her husband to a bomb in Afghanistan. Now stateside, she's raising her son and working with a former colleague in a local hospital. Meanwhile, a member of the Quinn crime family, Ryan Quinn (Anthony Konechny) is in FBI custody, and his hotheaded brother Sean (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) launches an ambush. But instead of freeing him, Sean shoots him.
Ryan is rushed to the hospital and rescued by Michelle, but when Ryan and Sean's father — the head of the organization, Patrick Quinn (Jon Voight) — arrives there, he's told he can't see his son, since he's still in custody. Sean impulsively starts trouble, and the Quinns suddenly find themselves with a hostage situation on their hands. Michelle must rely upon her former military training to save the day, while still protecting her son, who happens to be inside the building.
Leah Gibson's Michelle Miller is a terrific hero for Mercy, a muscular mom who only fights because she has to (she swore she would never fight again). And Voight has one of his best scenery-chomping roles since Anaconda, roaring through an Irish accent and trying to keep his boys in line (he cuts off the ear of one man who disobeys an order), while sometimes stopping to sing an Irish ditty.
But the questions keep coming up. How big is this hospital? Why can't Quinn's men simply search all the rooms and find Ryan themselves? (At one point one of the gang members even finds a handy roll of "Building Plans" just lying on a workbench.) And why does the Quinn gang happen to have so much explosive C4 on hand when this siege was never planned?
Mercy also takes itself a tad too seriously, with some attempts at chest-thumping U.S. military patriotism here and there. All in all, it's is not bad enough to send viewers to the ER, but it may cause minor headaches.
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