"When Pratt's character, Chris Raven, wakes up, barefoot and strapped into an electric chair sitting in the middle of an oddly large room that looks a bit like the holodeck, he's informed by an IMAX-sized AI judge (Ferguson) that he has 90 minutes to prove he didn't kill his wife (Annabelle Wallis). In this world, the incarcerated are guilty until proved innocent. They've cut lawyers and juries out of the equation as well."
"One of the most confounding choices is to have a real actor playing the AI judge. Wouldn't it have been more interesting and provocative to use an AI creation as the impartial Judge Maddox instead of stripping Ferguson of all emotion and charisma in the role? At times, it feels as tedious as watching a stranger's increasingly frustrating call with a robotic customer service representative play out in real time."
Chris Raven wakes up barefoot and strapped into an electric chair and is told by an IMAX-sized AI judge that he has 90 minutes to prove he didn't kill his wife. The legal system operates as guilty-until-proven-innocent with no lawyers or juries, forcing the accused to use everyone's digital footprints to build a defense. Kali Reis's LAPD agent Jaq pursues leads in the real world but is mostly seen via FaceTime and bodycam footage. The choice to cast a human as the unemotional AI judge undermines the concept, and the persistent on-screen countdown accentuates the film's tedious pacing and underused performances.
Read at Kqed
Unable to calculate read time
Collection
[
|
...
]