This movie is almost two wierd to review because it blurs the line between reality and fantasy. I’m confident that if you think just a little about all of the plot points and how they work together, you’ll find that they unravel. The density of weirdness only increases throughout the movie, but that’s part of the fun.
At its core, this is another movie, in a long string of movies, that warns us of the impending apocalypse brought on by social media abuse and AI domination. (The anti-Reeses: Two bad things that are worse together.)
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Let’s talk about the obvious stuff that really works in this movie. It’s funny. Like laugh-out-loud funny. At least a handful of times, the entire audience LOLed.
Sam Rockwell is fantastic. He totally embodies his character.
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All of the supporting actors are awesome. Particularly Juno Temple, as Susan, and Haley Lu Richardson as Ingrid.
This is a long-ish movie, at 2h. 8min., not including the end credits. But it doesn’t feel that way. Well, maybe the last 15 minutes dragged a little bit, but other than that, it was engaging throughout. Even though there are a lot of flashbacks, it’s easy to follow the narrative thread.
I wonder if anyone else feels like director Gore Verbinski channeled his inner Terry Gilliam in this movie. The visuals and the weirdness feel totally Gilliamesque. Particularly The man from the future’s suit, the cat, and the AI room, all feel like they were copy/pasted from the mind of Gilliam—and that’s a good thing.
Grade: B+
There are no extra scenes during, or after, the end credits of Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die.
| Rated: | (R) NA |
| Genres: | Action, Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi |
| USA release date: | 2026-02-13 |
| Movie length: | |
| Starring: | Sam Rockwell, Haley Lu Richardson, Michael Peña, Zazie Beetz, Juno Temple |
| Director: | Gore Verbinski |
| Writer(s): | Matthew Robinson |
| Language: | en |
| Country: | US |
Plot
A man from the future arrives at a diner in Los Angeles where he must recruit the precise combination of disgruntled patrons to join him on a one-night-six-block quest to save the world from the terminal threat of a rogue artificial intelligence.
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