Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die
团战之夜
Rating
M18 Coarse Language and Some Violence
Language
English with no subtitles
Cast
Sam Rockwell, Haley Lu Richardson, Michael Peña, Zazie Beetz, Asim Chaudhry, Tom Taylor, Juno Temple
Synopsis
A dark night. A crowded diner. A man with a detonator bursts in proclaiming to be from the future. This is the 117th time he’s returned with the same imperative. Before time runs out, he must recruit a group of distinctly unqualified diner patrons to stop the impending AI apocalypse and save humanity from the perils of social media. The problem? Everything is stacked against them – from skeptical strangers and brain - rotted teen agers, to algorithmic monstrosities beyond their control. But if this unlikely group can pull it off, the world might just turn out okay.... Or not, I dunno!
Reviews
By InCinemas 21 Apr 2026
A trippy ride for the uninitiated.
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The term “anti-AI movie” will most likely conjure up the idea of sentient robots displacing humans, or a world-destructive computer programme even, but most definitely not a save the world-type video game adventure where the final boss is a soon-to-be created evil AI that requires a specific line-up of people to defeat. That’s just absurd and ridiculous and exactly what Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die is.
Sam Rockwell leads an ensemble cast consisting of Haley Lu Richardson, Juno Temple, Michael Peña, Zazie Beetz, Asim Chaudhry, and Tom Taylor. The film is written by Matthew Robinson and directed by Gore Verbinski.
Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die follows a nameless man from the future (Rockwell) who had travelled to the past to recruit patrons at a diner to help combat an artificial intelligence that has taken over his time. This is not a nonsensical “travel back in time to kill baby Hitler”-type plan. Instead, the goal is to just install a security protocol within the AI before it goes live, because its existence is inevitable anyway so why fight it when you can contribute to nurturing it for the better? There is realism in the plan. We have come a long way learning to adapt and embrace as opposed to the method of simply ending the source.
Joining the man on his mission is a disorderly mixture of characters – some serving a bigger purpose with connective backstory than others – namely teacher couple Mark (Peña) and Janet (Beetz), grieving mother Susan (Temple), and Ingrid (Richardson), a girl who’s allergic to Wi-Fi and electronic devices. They’re part of the most promising combination the man has had in his 100+ attempts but should he fail, he need only press a button to travel back in time and do it all over again.
Imagine a mishmash of Black Mirror episodes colliding, with these characters representing a speculative fictional reality of their own: An unsubtle representation of social media controlling users like a hivemind to the extend of domination. A reality where school shootings are so normalised to the extent where parents are indifferent to the pain and have a standing appointment at a centre that allows them to clone and bring back the child they lost. But the most intriguing one of all – a Wi-Fi and electronic device allergy.
For the most part, the reality of the Good Luck universe seems rather elementary (save for the aforementioned Black Mirror-esque elements). It’s not until a giant centaur cat shows up to devour people on the street does it derail everything and introduces a possibility that not everything you’ve watched up to that point was real, while also begging the question: what was?
This sci-fi comedy feels like the brainchild of someone who spent too much time decoding The Matrix and decided to make their own rabbit hole simulation. Robinson also wastes no time hiding contempt for AI in his writing. A character literally mutters the words “these are troubling times” before the film immediately cuts to show a classroom-full of students doomscrolling social media. This sets the tone for the rest of the film and its characters’ stance on the digital overtaking of their lives.
Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die is a wild ride best experienced if you just let go and let Gore. It’s an unapologetically anti-AI film for the technology-addicted generation. It shouldn’t matter for us to tell you if the man’s mission was a success or not (it wasn’t), because it eventually comes to show that everything could have been an elaborate simulation all along, leaving it up to individual interpretation to decide if anything we sat through was ever real. Sometimes it really is that deep.
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