“AI is the future of criminal justice and it is closer than you think.”
With that warning, Amazon MGM Studios shared a new trailer science fiction thriller Mercywhich in our region is titled Mercilessly and where it will be distributed by Sony Pictures.
In the director's film Timur Bekmambetov (Profile, Wanted) Chris Pratt You will face a tool, whose misuse in our current world seems an increasingly real threat: artificial intelligence.
Pratt plays a Los Angeles detective accused by an AI court of murdering his wife. The artificial judge is played by Rebecca Ferguson (Dune, A House of Dynamite).
El detective Raymond (Pratt), architect of a system that allows defendants to prove their innocence in 90 minutes, has been convicted. He faces an artificial judge (Ferguson), and does not know how it happened. Raven (Pratt) receives help from her partner, who helps her retrace her path.
Take a look at the new trailer at the end of the note.
OFFICIAL SYNOPSIS:
“In the near future, a detective (Chris Pratt) is put on trial, accused of murdering his wife. He has 90 minutes to prove his innocence before the advanced Judge IA (Rebecca Ferguson), whom he himself once defended, before she decides his fate.”
The cast also includes Kali Reis (True Detective: Night Country), Kenneth Choi (9-1-1), Annabelle Wallis (Malignant), y Chris Sullivan (This Is Us).
The script was written by Marco van Belle.
On stage at NYCC2025, Bekmambetov commented on the film's setting in real time (via Deadline):
“We live in a world where AI is stalking us and we don't have time to understand what has happened. AI could be our enemy, our friend or our daughter. This ticking clock is a metaphor for the times we live in.”
The production used body cameras and drones to film the film, and robot dogs to film crowd scenes.
The producers are Bekmambetov, Robert Amidon, Majd Nassif, and Charles Roven, with Mark Moran serving as executive producer.
Mercilessly premieres in theaters January 22, 2026 in Latin America, and on January 23 in the United States.
New trailer:
Source: https://cine3.com/chris-pratt-rebecca-ferguson-nuevo-trailer-mercy/
