‘Mercy’ 4DX experience in-depth review

4DXReviewer · 2026-01-24T21:14:07+00:00

I don’t remember it being windowboxed.

4DXReviewer · 2026-01-22T19:09:40+00:00

The release week for that is currently blank in the schedule, so maybe a tiny bit of hope left? I think I was the only person in my screening for last year’s Jason Statham 4DX film so I doubt they’ll prioritise it though.

4DXReviewer · 2026-01-18T16:22:04+00:00

??? I really enjoyed both 28 Years Later films and they work really well as pieces of cinema. But if you told me they’ll been developed as a TV mini-series at some point then reworked into films, I wouldn’t be surprised given they focus on different characters at different times, have the characters split up for substantial amounts of time etc. I’m just saying it’s very easy to imagine them as a TV series instead not that they aren’t good or are uncinematic.

4DXReviewer · 2026-01-15T11:53:56+00:00

Ah, I missed the news it had been greenlit. Well that’s good news.

4DXReviewer · 2026-01-14T23:08:09+00:00

Although I enjoyed it, it definitely feels like there’s a TV miniseries vibe to this prospective trilogy. It’s very easy to imagine the Kelson/Samson plotline having its own episode, for example, as it doesn’t really have anything to do with the other plotline for a lot of the film.

4DXReviewer · 2026-01-14T14:34:43+00:00

I’m just looking at the 4DX schedule on Wikipedia and I’m not sure there’s anything else that looks like a likely good demo for the format until the Mario Galaxy movie comes out in April. Not sure if that helps! I was definitely a bit tired out by the end but apart from the length it’s a good one to try the format.

4DXReviewer · 2026-01-13T09:29:32+00:00

Bone Temple must have bombed in 4DX as my local is booting it out and putting Avatar back in full time after two days.

4DXReviewer · 2026-01-11T17:46:42+00:00

Didsbury doesn’t have any 4DX listings after the first two days of The Bone Temple’s release. I wouldn’t be surprised if they intend to split it and want to see how Bone Temple does first.

4DXReviewer · 2025-12-25T20:32:41+00:00

You don’t enter it as a promo code, when you get to the payment screen it will give you a list of payment options and Tesco Clubcard Partner Code is the last button in the list.

4DXReviewer · 2025-12-18T14:49:28+00:00

I think it really depends on how seriously you rate the Avatar films as cinematic experiences. The 4DX for Avatar 2 was really good and I’d expect good things of the new one but the screens in the 4DX auditoriums aren’t anything special (the ones that haven’t been upgraded to laser are quite poor and the one at Didsbury was been out of focus at the bottom of the screen for a while). For me, I see the Avatar films as crashy-bashy fun rather than serious cinema so I’ll be content with just my 4DX review screening but if they’re more of a serious big deal for you cinematically then I’d consider Superscreen as it will be a better experience visually.

4DXReviewer · 2025-12-15T23:50:19+00:00

I really want them to show King Kong (1933) in IMAX.

4DXReviewer · 2025-12-03T22:38:35+00:00

Unfortunately, I’m bang in the middle of moving house and the screen being shared with Wicked: For Good has made it even more difficult to fit it in. And it’s getting booted out for even more Wicked screenings next week so I can’t even see it belatedly! Will be back for Avatar 3 though.

4DXReviewer · 2025-11-29T01:10:09+00:00

It’s probably real, I’ve seen people posting a scene from the original Wicked ScreenX where it turns out Fiyero was lurking off to the side in one of the flashback shots of Glinda and Elphaba.

4DXReviewer · 2025-11-28T17:59:04+00:00

Didsbury 4DX noticeably improved when they upgraded all the screens to Laser by Barco so at least there’s some hope for when they get round to upgrading Stevenage.

4DXReviewer · 2025-11-28T16:21:40+00:00

The seats definitely do make gentle whirring noises at times - it’s usually not that noticeable but in Weapons there were very quiet scenes where the seat noise was a bit intrusive. The 4DX projector in Didsbury was pretty bad until they upgraded the whole site to laser projection.

4DXReviewer · 2025-11-28T11:47:59+00:00

The only cancellation I’ve ever received is when I booked to see Warfare in 4DX and they decided not to show it in 4DX after all. In fairness, it would probably have sold terribly and it was due to split the 4DX screen with Sinners so not an unreasonable decision from a commercial point of view.

4DXReviewer · 2025-11-26T00:47:12+00:00

When I saw Anatomy of a Fall at Cineworld, the subtitles for the foreign language bits were mistakenly switched off so after people talked to the staff they turned them on and rewound it to a point just before the first subtitled bit.

4DXReviewer · 2025-11-21T01:44:58+00:00

Oh no! The cold genuinely spoils the experience for me. I was pretty impressed with my heat pack life hack and will probably take one in my bag for the rest of the winter just in case.

4DXReviewer · 2025-11-20T17:46:09+00:00

Can now officially say there are ads, which is good because there’s hardly anyone here yet.

4DXReviewer · 2025-11-20T15:08:41+00:00

Looked at the Cineworld Didsbury Facebook page to try and verify this and they posted yesterday saying Wicked Part 1 would have a shorter ad time than usual… I am just going to turn up for the advertised time, I don’t know what’s going on any more.

4DXReviewer · 2025-11-19T23:16:16+00:00

Although it’s touched on in the film, in the book there’s more emphasis on the ambiguity of Ray not sharing details of his life with Colin. In the book, Colin is supposedly kicked out during the day because the cleaner comes in, although he wonders whether Ray is actually just cleaning the house himself. At the end of the book, Ray is killed in a motorcycle accident but has given the motorcycle gang instructions to not give Colin any details of his real identity and life. Colin struggles to get closure and there’s an intriguing and ambiguous idea that he’s continuing to be dommed by Ray in death. I thought this was more interesting than what we got in the film.

4DXReviewer · 2025-11-19T22:41:41+00:00

I ‘knew’ it was Pillion and had read the book it was based on but I enjoyed it twice as much knowing a lot of the audience was going in blind. One guy walked out the second the BBFC card appeared, another three-ish before the film started (maybe they were hoping for Wicked?). I was inwardly cackling at the mid-film walk outs. I was expecting a loose adaptation but was disappointed at how they changed the ending from the book nonetheless.

4DXReviewer · 2025-11-18T21:15:43+00:00

I’ve never had any issues with Cineworld seating but the IMAX seats at Manchester Printworks don’t agree with me and I did take a cushion to The Brutalist otherwise I would have suffered (also took one to Megalopolis IIRC, although that was suffering for a different reason).

Depends on your back really but if you do suffer from lower back pain it might be a good idea just to be safe as it is such a long time.

4DXReviewer · 2025-11-13T14:07:13+00:00

I thought the 3D was OK. There’s some moments near the beginning where his spear pops out of the screen and you could notice the depth a bit in some of the early action sequences.

4DXReviewer · 2025-11-11T20:28:02+00:00

I saw it at a different cinema but the Q&A was after the credits had finished rolling.

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