Mercy Parents Guide (2026)

Man in a white shirt sitting in a specialized chair with equipment.

I watched Mercy and wrote this Mercy Parents Guide. All opinions are my own.

I took my family to go and watch Mercy when it was in theaters. I hadn’t done much digging into the movie, but I did expect it to be a bit like Minority Report. One thing I wasn’t sure I would enjoy is that Chris Pratt spends a lot of the movie in a specific room. This didn’t ruin the movie for me because they were able to break this up by showing flashbacks, as well as other characters in the movie, and what they are doing in real time. I felt like the storyline moved along quickly, and there were several twists and turns I didn’t expect, and a few I did.

Overall, we all really enjoyed the movie, and I am looking forward to watching it again. This one, where I will watch it a few times, because I know I missed things along the way. I love mystery/murder movies, and this is a great one.

Mercy is now streaming on Prime Video

Mercy Parents Guide

Mercy is rated PG-13 for violence, bloody images, some strong language, drug content, and teen smoking. It runs for 1hr 41m.

There is no end-credit scene for Mercy.

Sex & Nudity – 1/5

Some low-cut shirts. An Instagram page with interesting pictures (suggestive poses, see-through shirts that show a bra)
Shows a picture of a girl in a bikini
Shows a young man from the chest up as he takes a bath
Talk of a character having an affair, and shows two people going into a hotel room.
Teenage girl references her tits (more on this below)

Violence & Gore – 3/5

There is a lot of violence. It shows shooting, hand-to-hand combat, kidnapping, stabbings, a bombing, a high-speed chase, and more.
There are a few scenes where it shows blood, but it’s mostly for the same character and not really bad.
There is an explosion, and it shows some of the characters on fire.
A dead man is shown with his eye open
It walks through a murder scene and replays the violence, including a stabbing

Profanity – 3/5

Ass – 4+ uses
Shit – 32+ uses
Bitch (SOB) – 3+ uses
Hell – 18+ uses
Damn – 9+ uses
Fu** – 3 uses (one very prominent, the other under the breath)
Jesus/God (GD, JC, etc) – 30+
The word tits is said multiple times in a video that is replayed
Words like screw and pissing

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking – 2/5

Vaping and smoking are shown throughout
Drinking/talk about alcohol addiction/AA, etc., is frequent
Shows marijuana use and drinking among teenagers

Frightening & Intense Scenes – 3/5

The last 30 minutes are very intense.
There are several chase scenes and interactions that are intense.

Mercy is a great thriller. Chris Pratt does a fantastic job of pulling you in and wrapping you up in his detective work as he tries to find out who really killed his wife.

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Mercy Parents Guide (2026)

Mercy is now streaming on Prime Video

Police officer on a motorcycle with drone equipment during an emergency response.

About Mercy:

Mercy is set in the near future, where Detective Chris Raven wakes up strapped into an AI‑controlled interrogation chair, accused of murdering his wife. With only 90 minutes to prove his innocence, he must sift through surveillance footage, body‑cam recordings, and digital evidence while an advanced AI judge evaluates every move he’s ever made. As Raven tries to reach his daughter and uncover what really happened, the system’s “Guilt Percentage Meter” inches dangerously close to an automatic execution.

Official Synopsis:

Imagine you awaken to find yourself strapped into a chair, face to face with a judge who informs you that you’ve been accused of murder— and unless you can exonerate yourself in 90 minutes, you’ll be executed instantly. You have access to every bit of camera footage on the web to prove your case, and you can use that to convince the judge of your innocence. Yet all of that private and public surveillance footage could put you closer to a guilty verdict.

It’s a nightmare scenario. And in the exciting, revolutionary, visually dynamic action thriller MERCY, it takes on future-world overtones as Artificial Intelligence serves as judge, jury and executioner.

In MERCY, it’s the year 2029, and Det. Chris Raven (CHRIS PRATT, the Guardians of the Galaxy trilogy, Avengers: Endgame, Passengers, the Jurassic World franchise) wakes up in that reality. The judge he’s in front of is an artificial intelligence he once championed personified as a human — specifically, the formidable Judge Maddox (REBECCA FERGUSON, A House of Dynamite, Dune, the Mission Impossible franchise, TV’s Silo). Raven is a Los Angeles police detective accused of murdering his wife, Nicole (ANNABELLE WALLIS, Annabelle, TV’s Peaky Blinders), and as he tries to find scraps of doubt amongst almost 24/7 footage of himself, Maddox decides if the alibis he’s grasping at are either helpful or harmful to his case. Raven needs to get down to a 92 percent probability of guilt…yet the closer he creeps up to 98 percent guilt, the more likely it is he’ll be executed on the spot in what is known as the Mercy Chair.

The judge provides police body cams, doorbell cams, cellphone images, social media accounts, and public surveillance cameras to counter Raven’s arguments for his innocence… even though he doesn’t remember what happened on the morning before he woke up in the Mercy Chair. Every move Raven has made was stored in the cloud, accessible to a legal system that’s become reliant on AI to process suspected criminals in an increasingly violent society. Raven tries to reach his teenage daughter Britt (KYLIE ROGERS, Beau Is Afraid, TV’s Yellowstone), and enlists his new partner, Det. Jacqueline “JAQ” Diallo (KALI REIS, Asphalt City, TV’s True Detective), and his AA sponsor and a family friend Rob Nelson (CHRIS SULLIVAN, TV’s This Is Us, The Knick) to help.

The film is brought to wildly vibrant life by visionary filmmaker TIMUR BEKMAMBETOV, director of Wanted, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, and Ben-Hur whose groundbreaking films Night Watch (2004) and Day Watch (2006) were wildly influential, and whose films using his unique Screenlife style and format — Unfriended (2015), Searching (2018), and Profile (2021) — moved cinema forward into integrating aspects of the digital world as cutting-edge visual technology is represented narratively on the big screen.