20 Recent Movies EVERYONE Knew Would Suck

20. Mercy

A January release in which Chris Pratt spends almost the entirety of the movie sat in a chair staring at screens, from the director of Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter - what could possibly go wrong?

Beyond all that, despite the topicality of Mercy's AI-centric premise, the marketing simply made it look like a cut-rate Minority Report or Blade Runner, while keeping stars Pratt and Rebecca Ferguson - who weren't on set together for most of the film - separated by screens.

There was a sure campy potential here, but Timur Bekmambetov's film ultimately takes itself far too seriously to be much fun, while Pratt and Ferguson are largely just going through the motions for a paycheck. And who can really blame them?

And frankly, it would've been a shock if Mercy were anything else - a film that came out of nowhere, was sent out to die with mediocre marketing, and was near-instantly forgotten about.