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Another sobering trend is the audience's diminishing appetite for films centered on artificial intelligence. Movies like Mercy, starring Chris Pratt and Rebecca Ferguson, are being marketed heavily, but the response remains lukewarm. The genre's core premise—AI deciding guilt or innocence—feels increasingly disconnected from viewers, rooted in concepts from Minority Report and Person of Interest. As one industry observer put it, Hollywood is "too close" to these ideas, leading to repetitiveness and fatigue.