Mercy [Movie Review]

Mercy [Movie Review] | I stopped by a currency exchange counter and with some time to spare before meeting my friends for our last lunch ahead of the fasting month, decided to catch this one.

And well… here goes.

SYNOPSIS

Mercy (2026) Trivia

• Starring: Chris Pratt, Rebecca Ferguson, Kali Reis, Annabelle Wallis, Chris Sullivan & Kylie Rogers
• Director: Timur Bekmambetov
• Producer: Charles Roven, Robert Amidon, Timur Bekmambetov & Majd Nassif
• Production Company: Amazon MGM Studios, Atlas Entertainment & Bazelevs Company
• Distributed by: Amazon MGM Studios  & Sony Pictures Releasing International 
• Release date: January 23, 2026
• Running time: 100 minutes
• Rating: MA
• Country: United States
• Language: English
• IMDb: 6.2/ 10
• Tomatometer: 24%
• Metascore: 34%
• Filmed in April and May of 2024, not released until 2026. 
• This is Chris Pratt's weakest theatrical opening as a leading man, so far. 
• Originally rated R by the MPA on 25 December 2024 for language, violent imagery and brief drug use. 

In a near-future Los Angeles where justice runs on code, Mercy Capital Court has traded robes and gavels for ruthless algorithms. Artificial intelligence now presides over violent crime trials, granting defendants unrestricted access to databases, surveillance feeds and every digital trace of their lives. They are given 90 minutes to prove their innocence. Fail, and a sonic blast delivers the final sentence. Mercy is judge, jury and executioner.

Detective Chris Raven of the Los Angeles Police Department has always believed in the system. To him, it is clean, efficient and incorruptible. Until the machine decides he is guilty.

Chris awakens strapped to a chair beneath the unblinking interface of AI Judge Maddox, accused of murdering his wife, Nicole. The evidence is devastating. Her blood stains his clothing. Doorbell footage places him at their home moments before her death. Maddox calculates a 97.5 percent probability of guilt. To survive, Chris must push that number below 92 percent within 90 minutes.

He begins tearing through every lead available. Nicole had been seeing another man, Patrick Burke. Chris’s partner, Jaq Diallo, tracks him down. Patrick insists Nicole was troubled at work, entangled in reports of stolen chemicals, and unable to confide in Chris. Their marriage had already been strained. After Chris’s former partner was killed in the line of duty, he slipped back into alcoholism, and distance grew between them.

Revisiting footage from a recent barbecue, Chris studies familiar faces with new suspicion. Attention shifts to Nicole’s co-worker Holt Charles, then to Robert Nelson, Chris’s sobriety sponsor. Security feeds, Britt’s social media posts and parking lot surveillance begin to reveal something far more calculated.

Robert’s brother, David Webb, was the first person executed by Mercy Court. Now Robert wants retribution. He has kidnapped Britt. The stolen chemicals may have been turned into a bomb.

But why target Chris? And how deep does Mercy’s promise of perfect justice truly go?

MY REVIEW

What I Like:  

• I went in with little expectation and the movie blew my socks off! 
• Beautiful storytelling and sweet plot twists along the way. 

What I Don't Like:

• Too short.

Will I Watch It Again: Sure, I don't mind watching it again.

Overall: 4.6/ 5.0

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