Film Overview: ‘Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die’

He is there, whereas clients sip espresso and chunk into an omelet, to enlist recruits for the resistance. In the longer term, he says, individuals have solely stopped taking part in life. “It all started with morning phone time,” he says. In the enjoyably oddball, forebodingly bleak and ridiculously believable Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die, a ragtag group fights a coming AI apocalypse throughout a handful of nondescript West Hollywood blocks.

It’s been argued that with the onset of AI, storytellers must get weirder, extra imaginative, extra human. The Daniels’ Everything Everywhere All at Once, which likewise married cosmic and mundane, was animated partly on this spirit. Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die, scripted by Matthew Robinson, isn’t that artistic, and it grows extra wayward the deeper it goes into its too-lengthy runtime. But there’s a bonkers attraction to how Verbinski tackles modern anxieties head on.

This is the primary movie in a decade from Verbinski, the director of Pirates of the Caribbean, Mouse Hunt and one of many higher animated options of the century, Rango. But after just a few flops (The Lone Ranger, A Cure for Wellness), Verbinski cobbled collectively a extra modest finances for this unbiased manufacturing.