Movie Review - Bible Based: Mercy

This Review Reveals Minor Details About the Plot.

Garbage In, Garbage Out

Plot Overview

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patriot American jurisprudence is based on the British system of innocent until proven guilty. In our near future, a large influx of immigrants—legal or not—from south of the border has deformed our population; gangs contributed to an intolerable increase in violence. Mexican jurisprudence is based on the Napoleonic code of guilty until one proves his innocence. LAPD Detective Chris Raven (Chris Pratt,) with his new partner Jacqueline "JAQ" Diallo, seeing his former partner's murderer walk has spearheaded a sea change to instigate the assumed guilty protocol. It is being beta tested now with eighteen (slam dunk) convictions so far to make it palatable to the public.

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accusers fed to lions Det. Raven has typical cop problems at home; he's got a sometimes fiery temperament and fights with his wife. When their teenage daughter Britt (Kylie Rogers) discovers her mom's knifed body in the kitchen when she gets home from school, the police are called and suspicion naturally falls on the husband. Surveillance footage shows he's the only one to have come & gone from the house in the critical time frame. They pick him up in his cups from a bar. He's got blood splatters from his wife Nicole (Annabelle Wallis) on his clothing. He protests his innocence though he has an alcoholic blackout from when the girl died. He is strapped to a seat timed for auto-execution in ninety minutes unless he can convince the AI Judge Mattox (Rebecca Ferguson) there's reasonable doubt before that happens.

The best defense against quicksand, of course, is not to step in it in the first place. With technical assistance he uncovers burner phones his wife and a strange man were using, but as the guy has an alibi, Chris's suspicion only gives him the husband more motive. Struggling makes it worse. His AA sponsor Rob Nelson (Chris Sullivan,) perhaps not yet clear from his own addiction, is less help than Chris had hoped. His negress cop partner JAQ, perhaps exhibiting unconscious racism, tries but fails to exonerate him. It all comes down to his daughter, if she noticed anything out of place in the home. Her loyalty is intrinsic despite the evidence. It's like a passage from Khaled Hosseini:

When it was time for Jalil to leave, Mariam always stood in the doorway and watched him exit the clearing, deflated at the thought of the week that stood, like an immense, immovable object between her and his next visit. Mariam always held her breath as she watched him go. She held her breath and, in her head, counted the seconds. She pretended that for each second that she didn't breathe, God would grant her another day with Jalil.
At night, Mariam lay in her cot and wondered what his house in Herat was like. She wondered what it would be like to see him every day. She pictured herself handing him a towel as he shaved, telling him when he nicked himself. She would brew tea for him. She would sew on his missing buttons. They would take walks in Herat together, in the vaulted bazaar where Jalil said you could find anything you wanted. They would ride in his car, and people would point and say, “There goes Jalil Khan with his daughter.” (22–3)

She unlike others has skin in the game. Unfortunately, statutory regulations prohibit questioning a minor except for narrow exceptions. People must be protected from intrusion. Right.

Ideology

RUSH sunflowers eye trim In the matter of judging, there's the familiar passage: (Matt. 7:3-5) “why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye? Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye? Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.” The “mote in thy brother's eye” is Chris's jogged remembrance of entering his house to destroy his wife's favorite vase. He helped her pick up the pieces, which is how he got her blood on his clothes, from a cut she got in the process. The “beam in thine own eye” is the AI's programming from an amalgamation of ‘solved’ cases in which the police rushed to judgment with a likely suspect and failed to consider other possibilities. Some of the convictions were “mistakes.”

Production Values

“” (2026) was directed by Timur Bekmambetov. It was written by Marco van Belle. It stars Chris Pratt, Rebecca Ferguson and Kali Reis. Pratt and Ferguson were relatively good though not Oscar worthy.

MPA rated it PG–13 for violence, bloody images, some strong language, drug content and teen smoking. The pace was murder, the action high, the twists arresting. Runtime is 1 hour 40 minutes.

Review Conclusion w/a Christian's Recommendation

“Mercy” portrays a degenerating society that loses its legal bearings. If a trained cop can barely survive a future inquisition, where does that leave the rest of us? How about the computer illiterate? It's a legal drama on a short fuse. Tension gets wound tight. A real nail-biter.

Movie Ratings

Action factor: Well done action flick. Suitability for Children: Suitable for children 13+ years with guidance. Special effects: Well done special effects. Video Occasion: Fit For a Friday Evening. Suspense: Keeps you on the edge of your seat. Overall movie rating: Three and a half stars out of five.

Works Cited

Scripture is quoted from the King James Version. Pub. 1611, rev. 1769. Software.

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