Info
- Released: January, 2026
- Starring: Chris Pratt
- Director: Timur Bekmambetov
Summary
In the near future an AI called Mercy acts as judge, jury, and executioner (effectively). Imagine
all personal media, location data, surveillance camera, transactions, etc is
placed in the cloud by law. When a murder occurs and the AI determines there’s a high probability of who did it then a trial starts immediately and the defendant has 90 minutes to convince reduce the AI’s probability to < 92% — otherwise execution happens.
There've been only 18 such trials, I assume they were all found guilty.
Naturally, a detective who's a big supporter of Mercy finds himself in the executioner's seat, accused of murdering his wife and the clock is ticking.
Opinion
Mercy is 75% an action movie, 15% about justice, and 10% a mystery. The idea of a rush to judgment by the AI is too obvious. That anyone could effectively defend themselves in the circumstances ludicrous. At least it's reasonable that Chris Pratt's character could be guilty though the twist at the end is too much.
Pete Ware 