Mercy is a very beautiful movie that tells the story of “how everybody makes mistakes” and the consequences and beauty of such mistakes. It reminds us not to place our full trust on AI and remember how humans are capable faults.
It prides itself in the grey area of our humanity. We are all capable of doing good and what’s right, we are also capable of doing the complete opposite.
Chris Pratt plays a struggling detective in a failing marriage due to his habit of drinking, despite his fault he loves his family, but does family love itself?
Rebecca Ferguson plays an AI judge that prides itself in the fact…but does it understand truth, mistakes and guts?
Chris Pratt character stands trial in a court for murdering his wife and he has 90 minutes to defend himself using every and all available evidence.
This film while with good intentions reminded us that in the age of data and information, your data isn’t truly private. It also reminds us of how humans can let their emotions get the best of us. How we can twist and omit facts to our agenda.
Unlike every other futuristic movie out there, this film did it’s best to create a future based on our reality today.
No flying cars as predicted in 1999 yet but humans will still be humans doing what we know and do best.
The most noticeable fault in this movie is how the AI which supposed to operate as an AI behaves more human than AI. It claims it’s function is to be the judge, jury and executioner but it forgot to mention it is also your lawyer and your partner. The number of times it helped Chris Pratt point to the right direction, I could not count.
That said, ‘Mercy’ shows you mercy and delivers what ‘War Of World’ wish it showed. It’s a well written film that knows when and when not to use the over advertised sci-fi elements of a futuristic film.
Official Rating: 8.5/10