In cinema’s fight against AI, we’ve seen sci-fi spectacles, action-packed stunts, and the belief in sheer humanity that helps us win the day. But perhaps it’s that optimism that has led us here. Perhaps that’s why Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die chooses to depict a bleakier, kookier version of this battle. Still, despite the hopelessness of it all, director Gore Verbinski has a lot of fun dumping a time-travelling Sam Rockwell in a full LA diner taken unawares, pushing him on a chaotic mission with unpredictable steps and surprisingly moving moments along the way. Thanks for the warning! We hope that certain AI tech overlords would hear it.
"It’s a bit haphazard in both structure and messaging, but there’s a creative spark under this one that’s missing from a lot of Hollywood products of late."
— Brian Tallerico
"Never predictable (or safe) in his choices, “MouseHunt” architect Verbinski has been sorely missed. It takes a virtuoso of his caliber to execute on the movie’s intricate “Everything Everywhere All at Once”-level imagination."
— Peter Debruge
A 'Man from the Future' arrives at an LA diner where he must recruit the precise combination of disgruntled patrons to join him on a one-night quest to save the world from the terminal threat of a rogue artificial intelligence.
