‘Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die’ Review: The Best Movie To Take Down AI
5/5 Sam Rockwells
There are unfortunately a lot of movies about AI now. Whether that is supporting it or taking it down depends but the best movie to show the dangers of the technology is Gore Verbinski’s Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die.
A man from the future (Sam Rockwell) appears in a diner and tells a group of people that they need to step up and take on the end of the world. Or, actually, they have to help him stop a small child from creating an AI that will destroy life as they know it. Each individual is uniquely qualified for the job in the sense that none of them are actually prepared for this.
But what Verbinski and screenwriter Matthew Robinson do is give us a very stark reality. One that hits a little too close to home. Everyone is obsessed with their phones, school shootings are so normalized that there is an option to quickly get over your grief, and more.
With Verbinski’s unique blend of comedy and action throughout the film, you almost want to laugh away the idea of the world going to the dogs as it does for the Man from the Future. But Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die reminds us that our world is on the brink of collapse from our own need to use AI for everything. Every tweet has a response asking “Grok” for context instead of using their own braincells, people are addicted to their phones.
You’ll leave Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die, not wanting to look at an app ever again.
An eclectic cast of characters that allows Haley Lu Richardson to shine
Throughout the movie, I found myself connected to Ingrid, a young woman who is allergic to technology. Played by Haley Lu Richardson, she’s the kind of character who tries incredibly hard to find happiness in a world addicted to their phones and she finds excitement on this journey because the Man From the Future takes out their use of phones right at the start. It makes Ingrid an important part of the team and also who doesn’t want to run around in a cool princess dress and combat boots?
In fact, the entire “team” that the man chooses from the diner is what makes this movie so special. We have Juno Temple playing a mother trying to get her son back, Michael Peña and Zazie Beetz as a couple who saw what the tech is doing to kids, and more. They’re all “new” to this and it makes the action scenes deliciously messy and exciting to watch.
But what makes Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die such a good movie is its message. It doesn’t try to pretend like AI is fine and good. It very much states the opposite and in a world that is trying more and more to justify the use of AI technology, I love that we have a movie that really is a slap in the fact of Chat GPT. Hire humans!
Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die is in theaters now.
(featured image: Briarcliff Entertainment)
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