PRAISE: Playing with the coldness of AI this movie about Mercy Court using AI judges to put defendants on trial for violent crimes the defendant is LAPD Detective Chris Raven (Chris Pratt) who is accused of murdering his wife and he has ninety minutes to prove his innocence. I liked when the movie actually raised a lot of questions in my mind about this new justice system which is basically judge, jury and executioner. With a system like that could it catch people off guard before they could come up with alibis or go on the run? Will a person easily be railroaded to a death sentence because of a glitch in the A.I? This plays out in the film in ways that were amusing and questionable. I was entertained when Chris discovered things about his family. A couple of action sequences were impressive. A couple of scenes stood out and i bet they would have looked even better in IMAX.
PROBLEMS: The way the AI judge portrayed by Rebecca Ferguson cant make up its mind if it wants to be smug, dismissive or helpful and sometimes all three at a time was unintentionally funny. There's no real suspense even though the movie throws in a red herring its very predictable.There's an off and on blandness in Pratt's performance. In fact there is a scene in which there is an extreme close up of his face and i thought it was an AI image.The climax of the film doesn't make any sense because of what's introduced in the movies first hour. Once again it attempted to be suspenseful but it only made me blurt out i knew it a couple of times.
Scale of 1 to 10 a 5½
