Mercy
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In the near future, a detective stands on trial accused of murdering his wife. He has ninety minutes to prove his innocence to the advanced AI Judge he once championed, before it determines his fate.
In the near future, a detective stands on trial accused of murdering his wife. He has ninety minutes to prove his innocence to the advanced AI Judge he once championed, before it determines his fate.
When Chris Pratt's bumbling Mercy begins, it seems like director Timur Bekmambetov is going to make some valid, if low-hanging fruit points, about the surveillance state, government overreach and AI's ballooning sphere of influence. But by the end of the film's 100 or so confounding minutes, it has more or less endorsed AI, mostly because Bekmambetov and writer Marco van Belle clearly find all of this new technology kind of cool. Mercy is not an uninteresting film.
Mercy Chris Pratt Rebecca Ferguson AI Movie Review. The “screenlife” technique of telling a story entirely or primarily through desktop and laptop visuals has been put to effective use in films such as “Unfriended” (2014), “Host” (2020) and “Missing” (2023), as well as in a batch of TV series, e.g., the clever and innovative “Connection Lost” episode of “Modern Family” in 2015. (We also got a spate of mostly forgettable screenlife films and streaming series during the pandemic.)
