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Ep 501 Mercy (2026) Spoiler Review
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The FIlmBros discuss "Mercy" starring Chris Pratt and Rebecca Ferguson
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What up, everybody? I'm your host, JP, and this is my co-host Josh.
SPEAKER_05Hey everybody.
SPEAKER_04And welcome back to another episode of the Film Bros Podcast. Alright, Josh. So today we have another movie review. All right. And you know, but I I feel like we've avoided this one long enough. Okay. This movie review we're about to embark on. We've avoided it. We've uh, you know, we've dodged it. Um we've done all kinds of things to to outrun it, but at the end of the day, you can't outrun what we need to watch. And it so happened. Now, this movie did do good in the box office. We can't cap. So I'm gonna be honest, right there, it did do well. Um, it was going bar for bar for uh I believe it's the one that dethroned Avatar. Um, and let's just be honest, uh, Avatar was already on its like third week going on the second month already. So I mean, either which way it did derail it, it did make a decent amount of money, obviously not a crazy amount, but it did do good for what it was, and I believe it was a January release. I mean, do people have an itch itch for this kind of movie? Is the question. Um, I mean, if if let me just check how much it made, just to be right on the money with it. So, Josh, uh, it did do some kind of numbers, but failed to break even at the box office. A$60 million budget still wound up breaking in at$54 million worldwide. Uh I mean, at the end of the day, it did not break even. It's not gonna get a sequel. We're not gonna see any more of this particular movie until the next particular movie because I do think that this movie is a matchup of a couple of movies, uh, just kind of packaged for you know for newer times or whatever. But um, yeah, Josh, let me know what we're talking about today and we'll we'll start breaking down this movie and all that good stuff.
SPEAKER_05So revealing 2026.
SPEAKER_01Wait a minute. You're before this court today charged with the murder of your life.
SPEAKER_04Have mercy, because we got it. We are reviewing mercy today, okay? Um, and like I said, I do feel like this movie's kind of a mashup of certain things. I mean, if you the obvious one, if anybody can really think about it, is minority report. I don't know if anybody's seen that one back in 04. Uh it's the one with Tom Cruise. And that one basically is they stop crime before crime happens. Like they basically can tell a person's patterns and that they're about to commit the crime, and so they stop the crime before happening. And it does this whole blurred line thing of like, you know, if are they really a criminal if they haven't acted upon it, blah blah blah blah, whatever. Mercy, on the other hand, kind of takes that and puts it on steroids and uses AI uh involved with it, I kind of feel. Um it really just kind of jacks up that whole like they're criminals, we're gonna have to kind of sort them out, and humans just can't do that job anymore. So they kind of pass that task on to technology or whatever, and blah blah blah. Look, man, mercy was one of those things that, in my opinion, soured a lot of people because of the AI part. Um, I think a lot of people didn't want to go watch it because of the whole um AI inclusion. Now, they the director even came out and said, or I believe it was one of the behind the scenes people, but they came out and said that they actually wanted to get an AI being to play that role, but felt that test audiences weren't agreeing with that, so they got an actual actress uh to to go ahead and do that. Um but I mean Josh, is that was something uh that kind of put you off this movie? I mean, what took you so long or what kind of kept you away and basically kept saying no to doing a review to this movie with me?
SPEAKER_05Man, the trailers. The trailer when I first seen this movie was whack as fuck. I that coupled with I don't really like Chris Pratt, you know, I kind of just that's kind of what set it all up for me. So when you were like we should do it, I was like, uh, I don't know if I want to.
SPEAKER_04We can't keep avoiding it. We can't keep avoiding it.
SPEAKER_05Now, now we can, but I would I was trying my best.
SPEAKER_04I wouldn't say the AI, but Chris Pratt was the thing that kind of deterred me from this movie. I'm not a big Chris Pratt fan, and I'm not like gonna lie to people and be like, oh yeah, like as soon as I hear he's in a movie, I'm there to watch it, you know what I'm saying? Um, I I I feel like he you know, and we're probably gonna go through it when we talk about the actors and whatnot, but I just feel like he's just not up to par when it comes down to these like serious roles and all that stuff. It's just unfortunate, but it is what it is. Um I fucking got you, you piece of shit. You fucking asshole, you're dead. He's dead now. He's fucking dead, Josh. I got him. Bitch.
SPEAKER_05Thank you.
SPEAKER_04John came in here and said, nice, I got it. Okay, um, where was I? Alright, uh where was I? Sorry.
SPEAKER_05We were breaking it down.
SPEAKER_04Oh, yeah, yeah. Alright, uh, one, two, three. Okay, so we'll we'll talk about uh Chris Pratt and everything else that kind of goes with it as we go down the line or whatever. But Josh, how'd you walk into this movie? Um, I know that you already said that you weren't it very excited, but I mean getting around to it, finally popping it on, and uh, you know, seeing the little bit that you saw on Amazon Prime, but did it not excite you, invigorate you, alight your curiosity for the film?
SPEAKER_05No, I'm sorry, no. This movie going into it, I was dreading it. Going out of it, I was like, okay, I guess it wasn't like the worst thing ever, but yeah, no, I was not like, oh, I'm on the train. Like, no, there was no train, if anything, to get on the train. I was kind of like, this is whack.
SPEAKER_04And it I think you told me that it took you two watches. I mean, I think you liked it so much you watched it twice, right?
SPEAKER_05No, I watched it once, and I was like, this is whack.
SPEAKER_04Close the door, close the door. Thank you. All right, go ahead, sorry. One, two, three.
SPEAKER_05I watched it, I watched it once, thought it was whack, and then CJ wanted to see it for herself, so I was like, okay, and then other people wanted to watch it, so we kind of made like a group thing, so we all just collectively watched it again. But I I dude, I I was so bored. It's boring. I can't.
SPEAKER_04Did you guys collectively like mock it though? Did you guys give it the chance it deserved, or did you guys like beat the movie down?
SPEAKER_05No, we were no. We usually were pretty okay about watching it, you know. CJ's the only one that'll be like, I it lost me. You know, like she'll say that I'm right, you know what I mean? But he was paying attention for the most part.
SPEAKER_04Okay. I know with me, I I did have a curiosity for this film. I gotta say. Like me wanting walking into it, like that my curiosity was am I scared of a movie that's actually good, but only because of the fact of the actor, and possibly because of people were saying about AI and whatnot.
SPEAKER_05Uh it was just boring to me. Okay. I I couldn't get behind it. I don't I even the on the second time I was just so checked out, but I didn't want to be the first one to pull out my phone and be like, you know what I mean? Because then it looks bad on me because I suggested it. So no. Well, I mean it was boring.
SPEAKER_04I mean, it's not a it's not a it's not a bad thing to suggest a movie. I mean, what if somebody walked out liking it? It is what it is, you know. But um, yeah, me walking into it, I did have a curiosity for it for sure. I I think it was more of like what they were gonna do with the AI. Was it actually gonna be a decent movie? You know, because people did go and watch it in the box office. So if it made some kind of money and you know, people actually walked out kind of liking it, what am I afraid of? Am I right? Um, but I think it's time for us to start breaking it down a little bit, talking about it a little bit more in depth. Josh, run tomatoes, clock this movie, mercy, at a 25% green splat on the tomato meter, but 82% on the popcorn meter. Apparently, the audiences kind of enjoyed this one. Not the critics, though.
SPEAKER_05I don't get how you know I think I'm on I think I'm with I am with the critics on this one. I thought it was whack. Where the 82% came from, I'll never know. But yeah, no, I wasn't vibing with this movie. I I disagree heavily on the popcorn meter.
SPEAKER_04I get that, I get that. Um I disagree too. I disagree on the popcorn meter. The tomato meter seems a little harsh for me. Just a little bit, but the fact that there's a high amount of uh actual you know audience members that enjoy this film, I I really I wanna know what they enjoyed about it, to be honest. I that's kind of that's a curious thing for me. Um Mercy was directed by Tamor Bick. Oh shoot, I'm gonna butcher the name. I'm sorry. Big Mom Beethoven. Tamor Big Mom Beethoven. Uh I wonder how many movies he made. He directed Nightwatch back in 2004. Profile. Oh, he was a producer on War of the Worlds with Ice Cube. Interesting. So, I mean, he kind of did a couple directors uh seats for himself, and then most of the time he's been mostly a producer. He directed Ben Hur back in 2016. The latest one was Profile in 2018. Um, never seen any of those films. So uh new director for me. Josh, have you seen any of those films?
SPEAKER_05Uh no. Um I think he says he did Wanted. So I mean, maybe Is he a producer? No, this is director.
SPEAKER_03Oh, well there you go.
SPEAKER_05So I mean we've seen Wanted, but that's about it. Other than that, he's on pretty smaller stuff.
SPEAKER_04So I've heard of Ben Her. I've never watched it before, but I've heard I've heard of it. I've heard of that one. Um cast Chris Pratt Pratt as Chris Raven. Wow, he didn't even want to change his first name. Uh Rebecca Ferguson as Judge Maddox, Kaylee Rez as Jacqueline, Jack Diallo, uh Annabelle Wallace as Nicole Raven, Chris Sullivan as Rob Nelson, uh Kylie Rogers as Britt Raven, Jeff Pierre as Patrick Burke, and so on and so forth. Um Kenneth Choi uh had a little cameo in there. I mean, if you remember him, he was in the god-awful, or I mean he's in the show 911, but I I think a lot of people remember um that bad trailer for the newest season that basically came out where like the meteors are coming down and they're just get get to cover now, and everybody's just standing there and it's like oh my god. Um, but yeah, it is what it is. That those are the actors, the director. Josh, if you kind of want to run down what happened in this movie, spoilers up ahead, y'all. Spoilers, spoilers, spoilers. If you haven't seen the movie, go check it out. It's on Prime Video right now. If you don't care about spoilers and you actually genuinely want to know if this movie's good or not, stick around and we'll let you know. We will let you know. Josh, go ahead and start breaking down the movie. Uh it's as spoiler-free as you can.
SPEAKER_05Okay. The premise is that he's the type who wakes up in the mercy program program that he made with AI to help, you know, kind of just make the court system, the justice system go smoother and either get rid of people on the streets, criminals on the streets, or you know, recognize that they're innocent. So the premise is that you get tied up, you have a you have about a certain amount of time to about a half an hour. Yeah, about half an hour to plead your case. If the court finds you guilty, you die instantly. If you don't, you boom, you're free. You're a free man. Uh Chris Pratt has to solve his wife's murder. Because it looks like yeah, because it looks like he was framed for um that and that's the whole film.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, that's basically it. And you know, there's the twists and turns, and you know, obviously the big reveal and the plot twists and whatnot. Um characters, Josh, Chris Pratt, Rebecca Ferguson were basically the most mostly the ones on screen. Um so I mean, I guess for the most part, we have to kind of go by their acting, but I will say I'm gonna catch uh Kylie Race. We played Jack. I'm gonna have to give her multiple strays. She was terrible in this movie. Why she was even hired to play a part in this film is crazy. She could not act not once. Not once in this film that I feel like she acted. I feel like she just read the lines off the script and you know, did a little head shake, and that was about it. Um Rob Chris Sullivan, I mean the same. I mean, you couldn't get an established actor, but I understand you know, you kind of lose the element of surprise if you add another established actor within a roster of pro possibly nobodies or whatever, but like w I mean, we could have done a a little bit more with the cast here. I mean, even like his daughter Nicole, I mean, she was decent, but I mean she wasn't I mean even her being robbed and snatched up, did I I didn't even believe that she was robbed and snatched up. Um there was a lot of bad acting with the secondary characters in this film, in my opinion. Chris Pratt in particular though, him being the lead cannot do serious. He cannot do crying. I mean, i him fighting in the bar was kind of corny. Like everything I felt from Chris Pratt's, like his acting skills in this movie, just felt like he phoned in this whole thing. I didn't really feel like he was in this thing at all. Rebecca Ferguson as the AI robot. I gotta tell you, I mean, she was AI, so I mean, I can't really be like, oh, she was supposed to give emotion or anything like that. Um, she's Rebecca Ferguson, and I respect that.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, and I like Rebecca Ferguson, indeed. Everybody here kind of was just it's felt like a cracked team of actors, you know what I mean? Everybody but Rebecca Ferguson, I think she's great. I love her. I've no I have nothing negative to say about her. I think she's great. If she if she had to play a good AI, okay. She plays a good AI. That's a that's the best note we can play.
SPEAKER_04So that's what I'm saying. Like, you can't really, you know, judge her role off of AI because you gotta be robotic. It is what it is. But I mean, Rebecca Ferguson, she was the only highlight, I gotta be honest, when it comes to the show, she's great.
SPEAKER_05She's great.
SPEAKER_04But what do you think about Chris Pratt? I gotta know.
SPEAKER_05I don't like him, dude. I don't think he's the right person for this. I don't think he's serious. I had this debate and I was and they were like, you could throw anyone there in there and it would still suck. And I was like, no, that's not true. You get people who are serious and can do it, they you this movie would be ten times better. I'd be like, okay, this motherfucker put it on his back. But no.
SPEAKER_04I think the thing is, is that I think you're right, if you do put another actor who can use his facial expressions uh more to basically convey the feelings and what's happening, that would have probably made a huge difference in all this and probably made the emotional beats. Even like when he got his daughter snatched up, like it didn't feel real. Like it doesn't feel real. Like it didn't feel like he was putting on that performance. So I mean, if you had like I mean, obviously they're not gonna get like a Robert Pattinson in that role or anything like that, but if they did, I'm pretty sure he would have nailed it 100%.
SPEAKER_05Him, uh uh uh what who Christian Bale like Austin Butler, anyone who can emote, you know what I mean? A little better.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, I I do agree with you on that. I think if you would have had a more, but like I said, I mean you're not gonna spend that kind of money on somebody who's just gonna sit there, right? And Chris Pratt being the being the guy that you guys kind of roll your dice on is like if this was Jake Gyllenhaal, this movie would be a 10 out of 10. I believe it. I believe that.
SPEAKER_05But no, no, they just they were like, let's give it to the most mediocre guy we can.
SPEAKER_04And I mean, like I said, Chris Pratt is only one part of this because, like I said, uh these back actors, every single one of them, the ones that, you know, had a speaking line through the phone and whatnot, it's like they should have been able to carry their own too. And, you know, the weightlessness on their side with the weightlessness on Chris Pratt's side, everything just felt eh, it felt whatever. I will say in the beginning it was strong, maybe because there was obviously it was mostly Rebecca Ferguson kind of speaking about the situation and you know, kind of running everything down and the dramatic music and blah blah blah. Everything felt good right there, and then it wasn't until we started kind of peeling some of the layers back that everything kind of started falling apart. I guess not only acting-wise, but plot-wise too. But you know, we're kind of sticking to the actors right here, right now. But I mean, other than Rebecca Ferguson, anybody else kind of catch your eye? Were they like, man, no? Give them a fucking Oscar.
SPEAKER_05No, really, nobody here really like wowed me. Other than I mean, like I said, Rebecca Ferguson is the only person. But again, we can't talk too much shit. All she did was play AI. So yeah, I don't know. No one really stood out. It all felt painfully average.
SPEAKER_04Wait, wait. I would well, we'll we'll discuss it. We'll discuss it. Uh I will say, cinematography-wise, I enjoyed it. I liked a lot of the camera panning from one screen to another screen. Um, them really highlighting. I will say they gave away a f you know, I wouldn't say gave away, but like they really did their best to kind of uh deter the tear your mind from who they believe you think it is with like the camera work. Um I've noticed that I noticed it a few times in that film, and I was just like, okay, I I know it's not him, but I don't know what I mean. I understand why the camera's putting it on that dude because they they want you to make, you know, obviously they wanted you to believe that that's the guy. And I was just like, it just sucks that the actors weren't acting right, and you know, if they would have acted a little bit better, it would have made it a little bit harder to to probably figure out, but you know, I think that with that it kind of messed it up. But cinematography-wise, I really liked a lot of the creative choices they took when it came down to like the camera work and stuff. So I I can't be mad, I can't be too mad on that side.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, I I I don't think so, dude. I I feel like not okay. I wasn't saying I'm not gonna sit here and say I predicted it, but after seeing it and like the way we got to the conclusion, I understand we probably could have shaved off 30 minutes of this movie.
SPEAKER_04I think that's gonna obviously uh be a plot problem, and we'll talk about that in a second. But like cinematography cinematography-wise, like what do you think about like the camera work and all that stuff?
SPEAKER_05Did that at least give you uh that it was kind of I think there were some scenes, okay, like some scenes where the chair was like in the middle of everything. I thought was pretty nice. Like the way they managed to blend that was cool. Um, other than that, like some of the CGI was trash, or mostly all the CGI was trash. All the CGI was fucking trash.
SPEAKER_04Dude was like, dude had hacks on because he was like mowing down every single car and not damaging his truck. I was like, dude, that's so crazy.
SPEAKER_05Right. He could just do that in the future. Yeah, I don't know. Nothing nothing really stood out to me, you know, cinematography-wise.
SPEAKER_04Okay. I I mean, yeah, I don't think it was groundbreaking, but I did like I did enjoy some of the movement that the camera was doing when it came down to like like I said, switching from one scene, going showing the back the back footage and everything, and then at one point, I mean, a little dramatic, but when like Prat was sitting in the middle of the wreckage and everything like that, and like the fire was going, I was like, okay, we could do that, but we can't just fucking can't stop the guy. That's fine. Anyways, we'll we'll just keep it going, right? Um, plot wise, Josh, plot wise. I mean, if you don't have any more for the cinematography, uh, what'd you think about the plot? How'd you feel? I mean, you were talking about the timer thing, which I'm glad to get I'm really glad to get into with you.
SPEAKER_05Yeah. I I we could have come to the revelation sooner, and Chris Pratt could have ended up out of the year sooner. I think the a good chunk of the movie just didn't have to happen.
SPEAKER_04Um, exact that's what I thought too. Uh the fact that they try to make a reason for him to try to stay in the chair, when you could have just been like, no man, you could you can get up off the chair, man. And he had to stay, and they just played for that dramatic effect. I was like, I was like, that's fine. Um, I do think a a lot of this, especially the whole timer thing. I think the timer thing is what kind of ruins the movie for me, right? So me personally, when the movie started, I thought we were gonna start like showing the family and all that stuff, and then eventually getting locked up. I didn't think that we're gonna start like at the chair, right? So the fact that that happened, and then it was like, oh, you know, let's give you the exposition, and then boom, you know, timer starts kind of thing or whatever. I was like, oh, so we're just gonna stretch this whole movie out within the timer. I was like, I hope not. I hope like he gets out the chair, and then eventually we'll, you know, we'll we'll we'll see him outside, do some some active work or something. The plot just did not let it happen.
SPEAKER_05They didn't I mean Yeah, as soon as as soon as Mercy was like, or the judge was like, oh, you have an hour, you have 90 minutes, right? I was so I looked right at CJ and I was like, that's because that's as that's how much m movie time we have left. And then we continued watching, and then it didn't even last the whole time. They spent uh you know how mad I'd be okay. You're you're telling me I'm on a timer, I'm gonna die within 90 minutes, and I spend 45 of that minute of those of your that time reeling, you know what I mean? Like I I'd be mad, I wouldn't I wouldn't have time for that. I'd have to log in almost immediately.
SPEAKER_04Like you're telling me, like, as soon as I wake up, like we just start the trial, like I don't even get a day to prepare to even know like this is happening. Like, I'm here, I'm sitting here. And I mean, don't get me wrong, what is the premise give it a little bit more tension? Yeah, but the fact that they try to play this, like I said, the plot-wise, the fact that they try to play it out in that span of an hour and 30 minutes or whatever, really hurts the movie because it kind of seems like it doesn't feel like every second is being wasted. It feels like they have more time because it's like timers going, but they can just magically be wherever Chris Pratt needs them to be at any time. You know what I mean? It's not like they take 20 minutes to get there or anything like that, right? Like when they needed to get the cops or whatever. Like, and my thing was too, is like, you know, a lot of this will like investigative work was happening because he was a cop and like he had cop friends. Are you telling me if like some Joe Schmo who doesn't have cop friends and don't have friends in general wants to live because he's probably innocent, he just doesn't have that at his his like at his disposal whatsoever? That's just could that's just that's just insane. That's crazy to me. There's a flawed system going on here. I was thinking in my head as I was like watching the movie, but at least for the timer part, I do think that that timer just even though it was meant to be there to give you that sense of like urgency, there was no sense because they padded it down regardless. So you oh, he needed somebody to be at that house, they're there. Literally, as soon as he calls them, oh yeah, gear up, boom, boom, boom, he's there. Literally, not even 10 minutes go by on the timer, and he's the the people already on the move doing the job for him. I mean, great friends that you fucking have, man, but not everybody has that in this world, you know? It's crazy.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, basically, yeah.
SPEAKER_04Um I wish you what other plot what like what other things that I was gonna uh like I said, the whole chair thing when you know he had a chance to get up, plot armored said no, you're not gonna do that. We need the movie to run a little bit longer. They sat him down. Um, I mean, as soon as you watch the movie, Kimon, you're not gonna not believe that he's not gonna make it out the chair. So that kind of ruins the illusion part one. Am I right? Uh that's already like a problem. Um, but yeah, I don't know. Any other issues you have with the plot?
SPEAKER_05Nah, man. Other than that, they take up too much time and it's just not very realistic to me. Other than that, it's it's whatever, you know.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, yeah. Is it is it just gonna roll through?
SPEAKER_05Um I'm sorry, man. I'm sorry. It just doesn't I doesn't sit right with me. I think they could have shaved off so much time with this movie.
SPEAKER_04I mean, if you shave off 30 minutes, you only are you're left with an hour movie.
SPEAKER_05Okay, okay. 15. You know, the revelation part could have come a lot sooner.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, I I honestly think if they would have made it to the point where he gets out of the chair and actually does something for longer than five minutes, it it would, you know, it would have helped out a little bit, but the fact that they needed to keep him there because oh my god, if we disconnect, you lose access to everything. Lady, you are tapping into my shit. You I if you let me out of here, I get full access to everything regardless. This is my shit. I'm actually I'm actually wasting time sitting in this chair. It's fucking ridiculous. I was like, this is crazy. I can't I can't believe it. And then I mean I I get the whole sprinkling in the whole humanity thing. Oh, you know, you can robots make mistakes too, whatever, blah blah blah. It's like what happened before that robots are just logical thinkers and do that to the end, and that being the the reason why our protagonist cannot make it to the end of the film, or or at least is met with hurdles, not oh, just understand we all make mistakes, and the robots just like, yeah, actually we do. We actually all do make mistakes. I made a mistake right now. What's a gut feeling? Oh, it's like crazy.
SPEAKER_05Right, right. I think those things I was kind of like that's dumb. You you can't really explain that kind of thing to a robot, you know, and then understand it. Another dumb thing. This movie was full of dumb stuff.
SPEAKER_04Like I looking back at it now. I couldn't believe him saying a hunch was like the thing that broke down the system. Like you don't know what urban dictionary is. You never read hunch before in urban dictionary. You have access to the world wide web. You don't know what a gut feeling or a hunch is, Mr. AI? I'm not sure if I asked. If I asked ChatGPT right now what that is, I'm pretty sure it would tell me.
SPEAKER_05Right. I'm pretty sure. But you know, don't do that, so it's okay.
SPEAKER_04Okay, all right, all right.
SPEAKER_05I don't know, man. I don't know. I think that's the thing. I think it's just this movie just does things in such a plain way. It's like toast.
SPEAKER_04This movie tries to be smart. That's the thing. It tries to be smart, it tries to give you like this like, oh, all this and that is happening. There's so much happening, you're not gonna understand what's happening. And to be honest, it was super easy. If anything, all this stuff could have probably been like how you said, it could have all been done possibly a little bit sooner, if they would have just used their common sense and if the robot was logical, like it supposedly says it's logical, right? Um but yeah, I don't know. CGI, we kind of touched on it, but terrible. There was no fight scenes in this movie.
SPEAKER_05So no, there was not. It's like the ending where he like apprehends the guy, and even then that's two seconds.
SPEAKER_04I like how and you know, a little I I won't spoil who it is, but I like how like at the end, dude's on his knees, and then Homeslice in the corner, like first of all, Pratt got him at gunpoint. He's like, I'm gonna do it to him, right? And then on the side, Homeslice just comes out and just pop, pop, pop, just starts shooting. Doesn't even say anything, just starts shooting it in kill the guy either. And I was just like That's crazy. Like, what was the point? I was like, I don't I didn't understand. It is what it is. Um, Josh, final thoughts of the film, and you know, give us your rating one to ten, one being the worst, ten being the best, five being in the middle.
SPEAKER_05I I man, I can't even apologize to you. You I think you owe me an apology for this movie, I'm not gonna lie. I it just was so painfully average, and like I know you say that that's bad, but it just it didn't move me. I wasn't wow, it did Chris Pratt fucking sucks. Fucking um, what's her name? The the the chick that just plays the judge did her best, but again, also nothing. This movie was such a nothing burger. So I I gotta dude, I gotta give it like three out of three out of ten. I dude, I am fucking I know I know, I know. Um I guess to me feels like a fine.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, no. I I give it like a two. I wouldn't watch this movie again. I I just think this movie is everything you don't want in your film. You don't want first of all, you don't want to you don't want to put your actor in a position where he can't do the acting that is necessary for the role. And the fact that him sitting in a chair is basically his kryptonite, which I mean, like I said, I don't even think he's the good actor. I like his stall though. Like, let's just be honest. Like, I think that's the only real thing he's done that everybody universally likes. If you say Mario, I don't I don't even believe your takes. It is what it is.
SPEAKER_05Um I think five people like that fucking movie, dude. I can't believe it.
SPEAKER_04What?
SPEAKER_05Like the like thinking about it now, 85% of people really like this movie.
SPEAKER_04Mm-hmm.
SPEAKER_05I don't get it.
SPEAKER_04I don't get it. I feel like this is one of those that was made for streaming. Um like I'd put it right next to probably like when we talked about it earlier, War of the Worlds. Probably belongs right then and there. Now, I do I I personally think Ice Cube was giving a little bit more justice from him sitting in a chair than what Chris Pratt was giving, and he was also sitting in a chair. So I don't know where the disconnect is. I'm not saying that movie's a five-star either, neither with Ice Cube giving his all Tom Poco, but I do think that Chris Pratt trying to be the action star and you know trying to be like the dude in the in the main light, like him trying to be like one of those guys to comp like there's a whole joke, right? Like where it's like, oh, all the all the good actors are named Chris, right? Not Pratt. Not Chris Pratt. Let me just tell you that right now. Like you you're not gonna just fucking shove him in there just because his name's Chris. You're not just gonna put him in that list. Chris Evans good, right? Like he he can do it, right? Chris Hemford, he's proven to be good. Needs to pick better roles, but he's good, right?
SPEAKER_00He's very good.
SPEAKER_04Chris Pratt, though. That's a no.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, he just doesn't have an in him.
SPEAKER_04In him, out him, around him. I don't know. He doesn't have it anywhere. It's just I I personally think he's probably not the actor for me, and I'm not gonna be too hard on him, because maybe he could, you know, maybe he could turn it around. Maybe I you know what his best role for me is when he played the role unwanted. When when he got smacked with the keyboard. That was that was nice. That was nice. That's him.
SPEAKER_05Yeah.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, that was him, though, where he says, like, fuck you.
SPEAKER_05No, yeah, no, I'm saying that's it. That's the only one.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, I I mean he played a douchebag. I mean, I I mean anybody could play a douchebag, I think, right?
SPEAKER_05Okay, yeah, that's true. But can you say that you said it, but still.
SPEAKER_04Uh, but yeah, Josh, I I I will not say I'm sorry for making you watch this film because you're still gonna make me watch the sheep film. Even though I was gonna watch it anyways, now I kind of feel obligated to do it because you made me. So I'm gonna have to do it out of your obligation. But with that being said, if you guys want to review from Detective Sheep with Hugh Jackman, let us know. Uh any TV shows, uh, movies you want us to review, topics we should be talking about. You want to hear your voice on one of these episodes one of these days, Josh. Let them know where they can do all that.
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