"Damsel"

The quality of mercy is not "Damsel".  A terrific cast and high production values can't hide the fact that this is an out-and-out revenge tale.  It's also a bit thin from a storytelling persepective.  Which is to say that if you see the trailer you pretty much get what happens in the whole movie.  It's not bad.  An enjoyable way to spend an hour plus.  It's heavy-handed with the digital enhancements but again, a strong cast does make it watchable.  There just isn't a lot of there there.  We have a half hour of fairytale, an hour of retribution (think fairytale meets the upside down of "Stranger Things") and that's pretty much it.  Good and bad are pretty heavily delineated.  Characters don't have a lot of room to change and grow and make retribution.  This movie is about blood.  And squishy killing.  In other words, not a story for the kids.  I sense a sequel.  We'll see.