"Gore Verbinski's bombastic return to the big screen starts with a bang - well, more accurately, a trickle. It's not easy to forget that this is the same man who delivered three gonzo Pirates of the Caribbean movies when his mysterious protagonist (Sam Rockwell) storms into a diner in the heart of Los Angeles, swathed in a plastic raincoat and covered in a series of tubes and wires... one of which empties a splash of urine onto the linoleum."
"Rockwell's unnamed protagonist feels a lot like Jack Sparrow by way of Kyle Reese: he claims to hail from the future, determined to save humanity from the artificial intelligence that robbed us of our dignity - but he could just as easily have wandered in from the dark side of Hollywood Boulevard. If there's a line between guy-next-door charm and straight-up psychosis, he's playing jump rope with it."
"Good Luck, Have Fun runs on a voracious mix of gonzo sci-fi spectacle and grounded, cynical sentiment. Verbinski, directing a joke-a-minute script written by Matthew Robinson, clearly believes in the crusade of his Man from the Future. The story he builds around Rockwell's wacky lead isn't subtle in its convictions: if Everything Everywhere All At Once embraced the absurd, Good Luck, Have Fun goes to fourth base."
Gore Verbinski returns with a bombastic, gonzo sci‑fi spectacle centered on an enigmatic, unnamed man played by Sam Rockwell. The protagonist arrives in a plastic raincoat, wired to tubes and switches, and even empties a splash of urine on diner linoleum. He claims to be from the future and has returned over a hundred times to avert an AI‑driven loss of human dignity. He recruits precise combinations of terrified diner patrons to join repeated temporal resets, using mysterious switches that may be bombs. The film pairs absurd, kinetic comedy with grounded, cynical sentiment and unapologetic moral urgency.
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