"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've 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."
"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's creepy new hi-tech justice system, ironically entitled Mercy (it doesn't 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"
"One day, Raven wakes up hungover in the courtroom's restraint chair in front of Maddox to be told he is accused of murdering his wife an event of which he has no memory. He now must clear his name using the city's vast cloud-bank archive of bodycam and surveillance footage, phone records and with calls to colleagues and family members. Desperate and grieving, Raven now has to pull off the police work of his career."
RoboJustice unfolds in Los Angeles in 2029 where an AI system named Mercy serves as the sole arbiter of criminal guilt or innocence. An LAPD detective, known for a drinking problem but celebrated for securing Mercy's first conviction, faces sudden accusation for his wife's murder with no memory of the event. Trials are ninety minutes long before an AI-hologram judge that insists on facts yet glitches unpredictably. The detective must mine a citywide cloud archive of bodycam and surveillance footage, phone records, and witness contacts to prove his innocence. The story blends inventive investigative twists, robust action sequences, and satirical critique of surveillance and AI-driven justice.
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