Mercy stars Chris Pratt as a Los Angeles Detective in a future where LA has become overrun with Crime and so the LAPD brings in the Mercy Justice System where an AI judge oversees criminal cases in 90 minutes but he is later brought before this judge (Rebecca Ferguson) to prove his innocence over the murder of his wife.
Mercy was not a movie I had high hopes for and while it wasn’t terrible its also a movie that feels very farfetched and very predictable at the same time, Chris Pratt is fine as the Detective character but there is very little here that you haven’t seen him do before and better and it felt like a waste of his everyman qualities, Rebecca Ferguson is clearly here for both the pay check and easy access to a role as it felt like she did her role over Zoom from home and that is a real waste of her remarkable talents.
And one should not simply waste the Reverend Mother like that.
But the main issue here is the storytelling as for a movie about AI it feels like it was written by one that knew how every other AI story played out over the decades and went down the same path those did and so much of it feels so predictable in terms of who did what and where things will happen and how things will play out that you felt like you were ahead of the storytelling instead of being engaged with it and some of the uses of screens and social media accounts and phones just had me going “what the fuck” more than once as it felt like everyone just said Yes to all that stuff in the usual way people do with Terms and Conditions and it really felt like 10 steps too far for me.
And so that was Mercy and I will be Merciful here and say not to bother unless you have a free ticket voucher from Christmas to watch it, 1 out of 5.
No comments:
Post a Comment