Chris Pratt’s Dumb New Movie Is Being Roasted Online
People loved Chris Pratt when he was the goofy Parks and Recreation actor, but Chris Pratt the Hollywood movie star with ties to an anti-LGBTQ+ megachurch, not so much.
After starring in cinematic turds like The Tomorrow War, Jurassic World: Dominion and The Electric State, Pratt has a new movie coming out. Thankfully, it doesn’t involve him voicing an iconic character that doesn’t fit his vibe at all.
Judging from the trailer, Mercy kind of looks like Minority Report, if Tom Cruise spent the entirety of the movie in a BarcaLounger. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the sci-fi film is set in 2029 and “follows Pratt’s LAPD detective who wakes up strapped to an execution chair. He’s on trial for murdering his wife and has just 90 minutes to prove he is innocent to an advanced A.I. system known as Judge Maddox (Rebecca Ferguson), which is acting as his literal judge, jury and executioner.”
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Perhaps not surprisingly, Mercy is hitting theaters in January, aka “Dumpuary.”
Not long after the movie’s poster and trailer dropped, the internet started piling on Pratt’s latest project, with social media users giving him even more shit than they did when he somehow forgot Garfield’s favorite food.
For starters, folks pointed out how weird it is that this movie about a guy in a chair future-Googling stuff in an empty room was somehow “filmed for IMAX release.”
Others pointed out that the premise is basically just the “e-Trial” sketch from Tim and Eric Awesome Show Great Job!
And a lot of people seemed to feel bad for the otherwise great Rebecca Ferguson, who is co-starring in what is arguably “the antithesis of art.”
Not to mention, Pratt’s acting is arguably “somehow even bad on the poster.”
A not insignificant number of users pointed out that the movie was produced by one of the producers of the recent Ice Cube-starring, 4-percent on Rotten Tomatoes-getting War of the Worlds remake, which, come to think of it, was another movie about a dude sitting in a chair looking at a computer screen for 90 interminable minutes.
To be fair, no one has actually seen Mercy yet. So for all we know, it could be the best movie about a character sitting in a chair since My Dinner with Andre.
