By KEVIN KAUMANS
IMDb: 6.1/10
Rotten Tomatoes: 23%
Metacritic: 37%
Reviews:
“Chris Pratt did a good job portraying the cop in trouble. The story itself couldn’t keep it afloat for the whole movie. As a procedural that kept you on the edge of your seat, it was really good. As an AI evolution, it was tough to convince me the AI developed feelings or glitched when it did. Others might buy this, I didn’t. The ending, the last line, was the most difficult to swallow.”
-Steven J (Rotten Tomatoes).
“Overall good action movie. Of course with AI there were a few things that may not make sense, but overall a good movie and kept the audience involved in the story. Made it easy to root for the character and feel the tension he was feeling. I saw the bad critic reviews in advance and was glad I ignored them.”
-M.S. (Rotten Tomatoes)
I went into this movie knowing nothing about it. By random coincidence, I rewatched Minority Report (8 stars) exactly a week ago.
And while Mercy doesn’t predict the future, there are so many similarities.
A futuristic sci-fi movie with some yummy sci-fi candy, in which we question the moral authority of a supposedly infallible legal system, in which the biggest name enforcing that system is now under investigation by said system.
Having said all that, I didn’t mind this movie. It’s definitely of significantly lower quality than Minority Report, but I was somewhat entertained.
At first it looked like it was headed for a negative rating, but it ramps up nicely with continued escalation to a climax.
I doubt it’s something I rewatch, but I’ve seen much worse.”
-Feastmode (IMDb).
“I don’t really understand why this movie is so low rated, it was very intense and had a good few plot twists (a lot of them were predictable though), as well as decent character development)
It wasn’t the best movie but for 2026 is ain’t that bad. One thing about the movie that confused me though is who was the guy with the daughter in the videos? Didn’t contribute to the story at all.”
-SeadogNZ (IMDb).
“It’s ingenious and watchable stuff, with cheeky twists, although the final escalation to full-on action mayhem is maybe a step too far towards pure absurdity.
The film is also a bit lenient on AI: “Human or AI – we all make mistakes.” Uh … yeah. But I wouldn’t be surprised if Raven and Judge Maddox revive their human-digital chemistry for a sequel.”
-The Guardian (Metacritic).
“Mercy” is curently being shown at Rialto Cinema nightly.
The showing is at 7 PM if anyone has intrest in going and seeing it.