Mercy review: Chris Pratt's new AI sci-fi thriller is so haphazard, you'll wonder if ChatGPT could do a better job of writing it

The best way to sum up Mercy is by describing it as a slightly more tolerable version of Ice Cube's War of the Worlds. If you ever dared to watch the latter, you'll know that this is far from a compliment.

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  There isn't a role that Rebecca Ferguson can't make work

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  Chris Pratt clearly loves life as an action hero

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  A fairly satisfying payoff

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  The armchair-bound effect wears thin very quickly

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  We need to collectively agree to stop telling stories through social media

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  Feels incredibly cheap

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  Kenneth Choi underused

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  Somehow uniquely generic

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  Struggles to sustain its momentum

I need everyone in the movie industry to listen up and repeat the following pact: "I solemnly swear to never make a film told through the lens of social media ever again. Never will I sit my main character in front of a screen, digesting the rest of the ...