Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die evaluation – Sam Rockwell’s Black Mirror AI comedy | Films | Entertainment | EUROtoday

In a cinema schedule stuffed stuffed with sequels and reboots with studios reluctant to take an opportunity on some authentic IP, it’s all the time refreshing when a correct danger is taken.

None extra so than in Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die from Pirates of the Caribbean authentic trilogy director Gore Verbinski, his first movie for a decade.

The wild and impressive new time journey comedy follows Sam Rockwell’s “man from the future” arriving again in time at a present-day LA diner.

Looking like a homeless man in worn 80s futuristic costume, he pronounces that he wants volunteers to assist him save the world from a horrible AI-driven future.

What follows is a tongue-in-cheek Terminator meets Black Mirror as he recruits a reluctant staff who aren’t certain if he’s telling the reality.

During their eccentric mission, an anthology of three brief movies offers flashbacks to a few of his recruits, together with a Florence Pugh lookalike and story MVP, Haley Lu Richardson. Each brief could be very very similar to a mini Black Mirror episode. One lampoons the zombification of Gen Z with smartphones in faculties, one other considers the moral issues of cloning useless kin, whereas a 3rd examines the need to dwell completely in a digital world. What’s significantly chilling about every sci-fi brief is that variants of all three exist already in the true world, the place AI continues to advance with ever-increasing velocity and no finish in sight.

This splendidly authentic and quirky movie is unashamedly and uncompromisingly anti-AI, managing to each entertain (Rockwell is implausible as all the time) and problem throughout this busy caper. At 134 minutes it does danger dragging, however after that twist ending there’s loads of room for a few sequels, which Verbinski has already admitted he’s eager for.

Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die hits UK cinemas this Friday.