"He rears his bedraggled, erratic self up and announces that he's come from the future to recruit the team he needs to head off a cataclysm that's coming down the pike, a cataclysm that has AI taking over the world. All the while, he delivers this manifesto in a world-weary rasp and with a half-smirk that you know is there even if you can't see it behind his mountain-man beard, because he's played by a too-perfectly cast Sam Rockwell."
"Rockwell's nameless savior/nutjob is the main attraction in Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die, director Gore Verbinski's first feature in nine years, a sprawling, overlong, overstuffed sci-fi/comedy/action blender drink that nevertheless manages to get more compelling as it unspools. He's here, he tells his captive audience, to recruit the perfect combination of diners needed to disarm some sort of digital sentience that's about to go online nearby and initiate doomsday."
Sam Rockwell portrays a bedraggled, time-traveling recruit who assembles a diner group to stop an imminent AI-driven apocalypse. The narrative repeatedly flashes back to reveal the lives of chosen diners, including Michael Peña and Zazie Beetz as teachers confronting screen addiction and school gun violence. The screenplay uses dark, sharp depictions of resigned reactions to school shootings and grief rituals, as embodied by Juno Temple's bereaved parent and PTA figures. The film blends sci-fi, comedy, and action in a sprawling, sometimes overlong package that grows more compelling as its stakes and character histories unfold.
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