people are insane. this is a terrible film. horrible and exhausting use of graphics and editing. Pratt is not a good enough actor to pull this. Ferguson acts like a robot, not as AI. don't watch.

It is surprisingly a good movie; from start to end, it will catch your attention. It reminds me of movies like "Missing" and "Searching", and it is pretty realistic for the near future, maybe!

Mercy was a complete letdown. The service was slow and disorganized, and it felt like no one cared that we were even there. What we got was overpriced and forgettable at best. Definitely not worth the time or money.

Just Awful. Do yourself a favor. Do not see this movie. If you must see this movie DO NOT see it alone. Do it with friends. Preferably while drunk. Preferably while doing something else. Play Drunk Yahtzee with friends and when it's not your turn drunken look at the TV and try to piece together what's going on. You'll have a better time. 3 minutes in and I lost my balance from rolling my eyes so hard. That's hyperbole because I watched this as I went to bed and finished it when I woke up because going to bed is when I watch things I don't have to worry about. I mean good lord the visuals are awful. I'm 20% sure at least one of those riot clips was from a sport ball game. We will just skip past "Civil unrest was at an all time high" like civil unrest springs up out of nowhere like bog water. Mass unemployment and homelessness drives people to crime. Honestly, it's the most legit thing said in this movie. So how do we solve this? Do we tackle unemployment or homelessness? No, we (and they don't go over it well, so I have to infer a little) create a city zone where we dump criminals also known as an open-air prison? HUNDREDS of cops are being killed? Trust me if we are at a level of crime where hundreds of cops are being killed. It's more than likely thousands of civilians are being killed. Or we are all in on it and cops are the bad guys. Either way. The focus is on the wrong spot. Then we go to news footage (we'll come back to this) that looks horrible and AI created complete with digital camera shake... just AWFUL digital camera shake explaining that "we need the Mercy Court" and having watched the movie calling it a court is like calling internal affairs "oversight". The people who keep saying "We just can't find anything that officer did wrong in spite of video footage of them shooting someone in the back” are not doing any oversight duties. The clay logo that looks far too detailed. like you asked a computer to create it at 5000 resolution not considering that when working with engravings you don't get resolutions like that at any size anyone would use. Then we get to the kicker of the opening which is that Mercy System: Reduces the need for trials. What? It's so hard not to bring real world knowledge into this because this movie wants me to imagine it's world, but the reason we have lengthy trials is because the court system is overwhelmed with BS cases. Cops arresting people for trash calls leads to multiple cases and it takes a court system no one wants to support. Give us more judges and less cases and bam suddenly lengthy trials are not as much an issue. But this movie instead suggests the problem is too many people are involved creating conflict. How much better if they were one body doing all parts of the trial? _The Star Chamber (1983)_ was more persuasive than this. That movie failed on completely different merits. Mercy assumes you are guilty. I feel like I could write an entire essay on why that is the most insane thing I have ever heard and I am not a legal scholar. The whole point of innocent until proven guilty is that it allows for law enforcement to arrest you and then the trial system evaluates your guilt. In the Mercy system if the police arrest a drunk sleeping in front of a bar for murder. How does the drunk prove he was drunk and therefore not guilty of the crime? The system assumes you are guilty and it is up to you to provide evidence to the contrary. You are not guilty if you are close to the murder. If you look like the murderer. If you go to the same gym and grabbed the wrong bag by mistake. Because it is on you the individual to prove otherwise. I think proponents would suggest that in Mercy you are not an unempowered civilian but someone who has the entire power of the Mercy system at your disposal. I argue anyone who could watch the movie and think that didn't watch the movie. At this point I've written 800+ words and we haven't even seen Chris Pratt yet. It's still the opening three minutes. Then we have the statistic that crime has been cut by 68% because of the Mercy system that has killed only 18 people. Zero progress on the homelessness. Zero progress on the joblessness. But because 18 people were killed suddenly people stop committing crimes? In LA? 3.8 MILLION people are in LA. The second most populated city in the entire country. 18 death drops crime by over 50%? Who is supposed to buy in on this? It is not just a numbers game. This is SILLY. We are told it has saved BILLIONS of tax dollars? After killing only 18 people? They do this HOURS after someone has died. It takes longer than that to get evidence. Basic evidence. An idiot might suggest that since Mercy has control over everything (not really a spoiler) it processes the evidence. But (should be a spoiler) it doesn't. One of the MAJOR problems with this movie is that Mercy uses what has already been processed. Movies are fictional but they should be consistent. They should present a world that makes sense so you can buy in. This movie has no verisimilitude. From the awful CGI shots. To the nonsense camera work. To fight editing so bad it makes the coked-up Marvel stutter editing look downright appealing. The reason this movie got such a high score is probably because I at least understand what it is trying to say. All of which is nonsense though. Let's start with Chris Pratt, a charismatic big money actor who is a huge draw. I hope you like the bust angles from Green Lantern because you get basically the same thing here without a million-dollar CGI super suit. They have this big scene of Mercy showing how much access it has to everything but there are two things to note here. 1) it ONLY has access to what is in the cloud. If some cop took a picture, then it could find it. If not.... then nothing. 2) This is a legal system that REQUIRES everyone to upload all their personal data to the government. Spoiler Alert. This is presented as good. Every phone everyone has MUST be uploaded so the AI can scan your stuff. I'm just so appalled at this. Not that it happened in the movie but how it's FRAMED. It's never questioned. It's not the point of the movie. it's just casual throwaway that lets the Mercy system get EVERY webcam everywhere all the time. And it STILL gets it wrong (hence the Pratt of the movie). In this movie Chris Pratt has to gather evidence but he doesn't do it by assessing cloud data. He has to use proxy people. He uses his cop connections to look at the scene and investigate. He blocks cops in locking down suspects. And he's the head cop in charge of this stuff. How is a homeless jobless dude supposed to prove he's innocent when a racist cop assumes him speaking Urdu means he was actually behind the murder of X person. Mercy is mostly just a phone call system. It cannot analyze. It cannot research. I think the moral is TRYING to be that you have to trust your gut and AI cannot do that but there are aplenty of things the AI should have done. It should have investigated the victim's connection. It should have adjusted everyone's phone footage. It should have looked into the rustling bushes. It should have factored all of that stuff into the guilt score. Congrats to Rebecca Ferguson for taking a role that doesn't seem like it was rewritten at all after they gave up on the idea of an AI actor. Just an awful angle, awful lighting, awful charisma for the entire movie. Why relent and get an actual actress and not let her act. We had better AI characters in the 80s and 90s. Do we not even PRETEND that AI is going to be interesting anymore? We used to have wacky AIs, we used to have megalomaniac AIs, we used to have friendly AIs and terrifying AIs, now we have AIs that look like they are casting going through the rest of the audition even though they were told Pedro Pascal was already the shoe-in. Her personality is empty puppet. Yet at random times she struggles to understand _feelings_ and is sardonic just at random. And then she goes back to practically bored. I'm not a fan of the movie but why isn't this AI more like _ex Machina (2015)_ I am just shot gunning this stuff at this point. We can talk about how the AI that has access to the entire municipal cloud still streams footage from news stations rather than directly from police copters. How it uses phones when body cam makes more sense. How many people are filming things that don't really make sense for them to film? A lot of people fighting and yelling and also recording for some reason. How are people doing all these crimes if AI is watching everything everywhere every time? Why is the Mercy room so big? It could be half that size. Why isn't it a quarter that size? It's an AI system why not just do them in parallel? THAT's efficiency. Even _Her (2013)_ addressed the parallel processing power of AI. All this and we don't even come close to the actual mystery reveal. The actual explanation for what happened. I can say this. There is someone who builds a bomb and goes to blow up a central area. But for some reason they need to get super close to it? Why? The movie says they wanted to verify the person responsible was there but why? They knew they were there.