"The value of imagination - the real, human stuff AI could never hope to touch - has been put to the test with Gore Verbinski's Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die. It's ideologically flawed, structurally jumbled, and a little too enamoured of its dystopian predecessors (shades of Terminator and Edge of Tomorrow here). But it's also sort of wonderfully personal, cranky and spiked - like an affronted hedgehog trying repeatedly to ram your shin."
"Sam Rockwell, playing an unnamed time traveller in a plastic raincoat, turns up to a diner to lecture its customers about how their excessive social media use has robbed them of their dignity. In the future, he warns, half the population will die while the other half are too busy doomscrolling in bed to notice. This is his 118th attempt to divert that course, if only the right people would volunteer for his righteous crusade."
Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die mixes dystopian satire with personal eccentricity, following a time traveller's repeated attempts to stop an apathetic future. Sam Rockwell plays an unnamed time traveller who warns that social media overuse will leave half the population dead and the rest doomscrolling. The film centers on characters including teachers Janet and Mark, grieving mother Susan, Uber driver Scott, and Ingrid, who is allergic to electronic devices. Gore Verbinski blends big-budget experience with a darker, idiosyncratic streak, favoring bold, messy idea-driven filmmaking. The tone alternates between flawed structure, affectionate absurdity, and earnest imagination.
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