Rebecca in this outfit looks like she’s a resistance leader in a dystopian 1970s New York where they live in the subway tunnels. But that is a compliment. That long jacket is awesome, and while those pants in that wash are not my flavor, she’s styled them really, really well. She’s cool but approachable, which is perfect when you need to recruit vigilantes into your movement.
Mercy stars Chris Pratt as a man who has 90 minutes to convince an AI judge — a concept he used to support — that he didn’t kill his wife. The trailer looks TERRIBLE. It’s all Chris staring at the camera with tears in his eyes and then Rebecca Ferguson giving him robotic instructions about how he needs to try and use all the footage he can to solve the puzzle. Yes, thanks. It feels like a bad escape room. I am fine with Crisp Rat being consigned to this purgatory of middling projects, but Rebecca Ferguson is both talented and interesting and deserves better material. I mean, maybe after Silo and Dune and Mission: Impossible, she was like, “You know what, I’m good, let’s do something low effort.” Understood. But honestly, I also quit Silo and got so bored during Dune and M:I went out with sort of a dull whimper… I hope her agents are doing a LOT of fruitful script-scouting right now. Or just having someone write a movie about resistance leader in a dystopian 1970s New York where they live in the subway tunnels. That COULD be a winner.
