"You've seen this movie before: A disheveled man (Sam Rockwell) busts into a restaurant, threatening to blow up the joint unless a crew of people joins him. Like Groundhog Day, he's been through this countless times before, and he immediately starts recounting otherwise unknowable details to convince the diner patrons. Like 12 Monkeys, he's from the future - the timely twist in Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die is that, rather than a world-ending virus, he needs help preventing a humanity-ending AI from being born."
"Good Luck is more of a primal scream than a thoughtful articulation about where everything went wrong. There's a bit of "old man yells at cloud" energy here (director Gore Verbinski is 61, and screenwriter Matthew Robinson is 47), but it fits the film's satirical tone. Looking around at the world today, who doesn't wish they could warn their past selves about the tech industry and the new ruling class it helped breed."
"Rockwell's character eventually wrangles a ragtag crew of future saviors: Mark and Janet (Michael Pena and Zazie Beetz), a married couple of high school teachers; Susan (Juno Temple), a distraught mother; and Ingrid (Haley Lu Richardson), a sad woman wearing a princess dress. There's also Asim Chaudhry's Scott, who mostly serves as comic relief, but doesn't get any real backstory like the others."
Sam Rockwell plays a disheveled time traveler who storms a restaurant and enlists strangers to prevent the creation of a humanity-ending AI. The recruits include married teachers Mark and Janet (Michael Peña, Zazie Beetz), distraught mother Susan (Juno Temple), and Ingrid (Haley Lu Richardson), plus comic relief Scott (Asim Chaudhry). The film unfolds in episodic vignettes that depict a near-dystopia: smartphone-obsessed teens, a horrific situation involving Susan's son, and Ingrid's allergic reaction to Wi‑Fi and smart devices. The tone blends satirical, primal-scream anger about tech culture with broad Black Mirror–style scenarios rather than deep philosophical analysis.
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