If Ice Cube’s War of the Worlds taught us anything, it’s that watching people watch screens is an intolerable bore. Timur Bekmambetov’s Mercy, unfortunately, didn’t get the memo, spending 100 minutes depicting Chris Pratt strapped to a chair in a 2029 courtroom where an AI serves as judge, jury, and executioner.
An inert hybrid of Cube’s awful 2025 H.G. Wells adaptation and the “screenlife” trilogy of Unfriended, Searching, and Missing—all of which were produced by Bekmambetov—this high-tech thriller (January 23, in theaters) asks as little of its audience as its stars, laying out clues to its mystery with a half-heartedness that breeds a deadly combination of frustration and enervation.
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