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Mercy
2026 · Film · 100 min
Directed by Timur Bekmambetov
Science FictionThrillerCrimeMystery
In the near future, a detective stands on trial accused of murdering his wife. He has ninety minutes to prove his innocence to the advanced AI Judge he once championed, before it determines his fate.
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This is a film, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercy_(2026_film)
And there were plenty of movies made "the hard way" that tanked at the box office. "Crime 101", "Mercy", and "28 Years Later: The Bone Temple" are three prominent star-driven, big-budget live-action movies that failed to turn a profit at the box office so far in 2026.
It sounds like a plot for this movie: Mercy [0]
[0] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt31050594/
The new movie Mercy is a good take in this, as fiction.
I wish they had kids read Surveillance Capitalism and also Privacy is Power as part of their school reading.
If you want to see where the discussion on privacy and tech has gone since, suffer through the recent “film” Mercy. A sane reading of the premise would suggest a profoundly anti-surveillance and AI message, but it’s quite the opposite.
In an way it’s best paired with the Amazon mess War of The Worlds, which is so thematically empty that it ultimately seems to suggest that while you can’t trust the government with your data, Amazon is a great custodian!
Thought at first this was the Garfield sequel, but apparently yes, the movie is Mercy. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt31050594/