Overview
- Rotten Tomatoes stood at about 30% on Jan. 21, with notices broadly praising the idea and leads but faulting execution, coherence and thematic depth.
- Set in 2029 Los Angeles, the story follows LAPD detective Chris Raven (Chris Pratt) racing to prove his innocence in 90 minutes before AI judge Maddox (Rebecca Ferguson).
- The film leans on Bekmambetov’s screenlife approach, surfacing evidence from social media, surveillance feeds, body cameras and doorbell videos inside a high-tech courtroom.
- Amazon MGM Studios is giving Mercy an exclusive theatrical release on Jan. 23, with an IMAX presentation and a real-time, roughly 100-minute runtime.
- Pratt said he asked to be strapped into the chair to intensify claustrophobia, and Ferguson shaped a largely motionless AI performance using an emotion chart provided by the director.