{"id":21655,"date":"2026-01-21T22:37:28","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T21:37:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/21\/mercy-review-chris-pratt-takes-on-ai-judge-rebecca-ferguson-in-ingenious-sci-fi-thriller\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T22:37:28","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T21:37:28","slug":"mercy-review-chris-pratt-takes-on-ai-judge-rebecca-ferguson-in-ingenious-sci-fi-thriller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/21\/mercy-review-chris-pratt-takes-on-ai-judge-rebecca-ferguson-in-ingenious-sci-fi-thriller\/","title":{"rendered":"Mercy review \u2013 Chris Pratt takes on AI judge Rebecca Ferguson in ingenious sci-fi thriller"},"content":{"rendered":"

It is the year 2029 and an LA cop finds himself accused of murdering his wife. He has 90 minutes to clear his name before robo-justice sends him down<\/p>\n

Irish writer Marco van Belle delivers an entertaining script for this real time futurist thriller-satire set in LA in 2029, in a world (as they say) where AI is wholly responsible for assessing criminal guilt or innocence. You\u2019ve heard of RoboCop. This is RoboJustice. Veteran Russian-Kazakh film-maker Timur Bekmambetov directs, bringing his usual robust approach to the big action sequences, and Chris Pratt stars as the LAPD cop accused of murder. (Longtime Pratt fans will appreciate a cameo appearance here of Pratt\u2019s fellow cast-member from TV\u2019s Parks and Recreation, Jay Jackson, effectively reprising his performance as sonorous TV newsreader Perd Hapley.)<\/p>\n

The film\u2019s ostensible target is the insidious power of AI, though the movie partakes of today\u2019s liberal opinion doublethink, in which we all solemnly concur that AI is very worrying while not having the smallest intention of doing anything about it. Pratt plays Detective Chris Raven, an officer with a drinking problem but nonetheless a poster boy for LA law enforcement in 2029 for having brought in the first conviction under the city\u2019s creepy new hi-tech justice system, ironically entitled Mercy (it doesn\u2019t appear to be an acronym). AI is now the sole arbiter of justice and defendants each have a 90-minute trial to make their case in front of Judge Maddox, an AI-hologram played by Rebecca Ferguson who icily insists on the facts but is capable of weird Max-Headroom-type glitches.<\/p>\n

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\nIt is the year 2029 and an LA cop finds himself accused of murdering his wife. He has 90 minutes to clear his name before robo-justice sends him down
\nIrish writer Marco van Belle delivers an entertaining script for this real time futurist thriller-satire set in LA in 2029, in a world (as they say) where AI is wholly responsible for assessing criminal guilt or innocence. You\u2019ve heard of RoboCop. This is RoboJustice. Veteran Russian-Kazakh film-maker Timur Bekmambetov directs, bringing his usual robust approach to the big action sequences, and Chris Pratt stars as the LAPD cop accused of murder. (Longtime Pratt fans will appreciate a cameo appearance here of Pratt\u2019s fellow cast-member from TV\u2019s Parks and Recreation, Jay Jackson, effectively reprising his performance as sonorous TV newsreader Perd Hapley.)
\nThe film\u2019s ostensible target is the insidious power of AI, though the movie partakes of today\u2019s liberal opinion doublethink, in which we all solemnly concur that AI is very worrying while not having the smallest intention of doing anything about it. Pratt plays Detective Chris Raven, an officer with a drinking problem but nonetheless a poster boy for LA law enforcement in 2029 for having brought in the first conviction under the city\u2019s creepy new hi-tech justice system, ironically entitled Mercy (it doesn\u2019t appear to be an acronym). AI is now the sole arbiter of justice and defendants each have a 90-minute trial to make their case in front of Judge Maddox, an AI-hologram played by Rebecca Ferguson who icily insists on the facts but is capable of weird Max-Headroom-type glitches. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It is the year 2029 and an LA cop finds himself accused of murdering his wife. He has 90 minutes to clear his name before robo-justice sends him down Irish writer Marco van Belle delivers an entertaining script for this real time futurist thriller-satire set in LA in 2029, in a world (as they say) …<\/p>\n

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