"The year is 2029, and an artificial intelligence entity called Mercy sits as judge, jury and executioner over certain Los Angeles criminal proceedings in director Timur Bekmambetov's thriller. Detective Raven (Chris Pratt), an alcoholic and also apparently a poster boy for LA law enforcement, after having brought in Mercy's first conviction, awakens at the film's start, hungover and shackled to the "Mercy Chair" which will kill him if he's found guilty. Facing him on screen is Judge Maddox (Rebecca Ferguson), an AI jurist who icily informs him that he has 90 minutes (cue on-screen timer) to prove he didn't kill his wife, an event of which he has no memory."
"So, not RoboCop, but RoboCourt kind of a nifty premise, except that no one involved seems terribly intent on interrogating the central notion of AI fallibility. "Human or AI," says Raven in a spectacularly unpersuasive copout, "we all make mistakes." Still, the setup allows Bekmambetov to indulge his fondness for storytelling with doorbell cams, iPhone screen grabs and computer searches, all edited frantically to make the use of so much low-res footage less annoying."
The year is 2029 and an artificial intelligence called Mercy adjudicates certain Los Angeles criminal cases under director Timur Bekmambetov. Detective Raven, an alcoholic police officer, awakens shackled to the "Mercy Chair" that will execute him if found guilty and faces an AI jurist, Judge Maddox, who gives him 90 minutes to prove he did not kill his wife. Raven must mine the city's surveillance archives, bodycam and drone footage, phone records, and make limited calls to family and colleagues. The film leans on frantic edits of low-resolution screens and a smartly choreographed chase to enliven the final act, but it largely fails to interrogate AI fallibility and feels derivative.
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