Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die (2026)
Directed by Gore Verbinski
A 'Man from the Future' arrives at an LA diner where he must recruit the precise combination of disgruntled patrons to join him on a one-night quest to save the world from the terminal threat of a rogue artificial intelligence.
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…especially as it dives into the past of the Man’s sidekicks like bite-sized Black Mirror episodes…
These flashback sequences effectively play like Black Mirror episodes…
At the same time, large stretches of “Don’t Die” feel like an overextended “Black Mirror” concept that never quite graduated beyond the brainstorming phase.
…bite-sized Black Mirror episodes…
Inevitably, the film will be compared to Black Mirror; much like Charlie Brooker’s anthology, the writing toes the line between sharp observations of modern life and the darkest black comedy.
While this part feels a bit like a less-inspired Black Mirror episode…
The stakes are sky high, with humanity’s fate hanging in the balance in a scenario that feels ripped straight out of “The Terminator.”
…it’s easy to feel like the robot apocalypse promised upon humanity by “The Matrix” and “The Terminator” is days away from our doorstep.
Movies warning about AI featuring a man from the future aren’t exactly groundbreaking; just look at The Terminator…
No shade to Arnold Schwarzenegger, but Sam Rockwell makes for a way more compelling figure from the future who is on a mission in the past than any versions of the Terminator.
…he’s doing a John Connor from The Terminator…
He’s not a stoic machine like The Terminator…
…a Groundhog Day/Edge of Tomorrow-style loop…
…until the stranger pulls the Groundhog Day trick of telling them everything he knows about them.
The film cleverly blends the reset mechanics of Groundhog Day with the fatalistic time-loop tension of 12 Monkeys…
…reminiscent of Groundhog Day…
Scenarist Matthew Robinson (“Dora and the Lost City of Gold”) also borrows elements of “Lost” and “Groundhog Day.”
…playing an exhausted and somewhat perturbed team leader caught in his own Groundhog Day time loop…
Movies like The Terminator or The Matrix served as nebulous critiques on our reliance on technology and escapism…
The film exaggerates how it is affecting human relationships and is more aligned with the “Terminator” and “The Matrix” franchises than a rigorous, textured depiction of how it has potential to bring people together…
Other sources of inspiration—from 12 Monkeys to The Matrix to Ghostbusters to Night of the Living Dead—don’t get mentioned by name, but their influence is too obvious to ignore.
Someone finally thought up a prequel to The Matrix…
…it’s easy to feel like the robot apocalypse promised upon humanity by “The Matrix” and “The Terminator” is days away from our doorstep.
…giddily sweded amalgamate of The Matrix, Twelve Monkeys and Terminator 2: Judgment Day…
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…giddily sweded amalgamate of The Matrix, Twelve Monkeys and Terminator 2: Judgment Day…
…this giddily sweded amalgamate of The Matrix, 12 Monkeys and Terminator 2: Judgment Day…
It won’t reinvent the time-travel caper like James Cameron did…
It’s somewhere in the crossroads of Terminator 2 and They Live, but nowhere near as exciting.
The Terminator franchise really had us believing the AI apocalypse would be far more interesting than it probably will be…
Visually and tonally, the film hums with a rebellious streak reminiscent of They Live…
…channeling the consumerist delirium of They Live…
It’s somewhere in the crossroads of Terminator 2 and They Live, but nowhere near as exciting.
…there is a lot of derivative humor, often drawing on visual cues that already worked in the “random” projects like Rick & Morty and Everything, Everywhere, All at Once…
…seems to be aiming for an “Everything Everywhere All at Once” style mix of memey humor and pathos…
It's a Terminator-meets-Magnolia feature in the way of Everything Everywhere All at Once, with a big "FUCK AI" motif worn on its sleeve.
The cast is game to try to recapture the whimsy and charm of “Everything, Everywhere All at Once” (2022) but the script ultimately lacks the pathos and heart of that film.
…stealing his look from Robin Williams’s hobo in “The Fisher King,”…
Verbinski has dubbed him an “American treasure” and asked Rockwell to play The Man from the Future as a cross between Christopher Lloyd in Back to the Future and Robin Williams in The Fisher King.
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A.I. pumps out villains who wandered out of the "Toy Story" franchise.
It feels like a combo of Terry Gilliam, the aforementioned sci-fi franchises, which may be why it has some momentum issues, and “Toy Story” (1995).
4 Sids from Toy Story out of 5…
…a Groundhog Day/Edge of Tomorrow-style loop…
Like “Groundhog Day,” or perhaps more accurately “Edge of Tomorrow,” every failed mission resets the timeline, forcing him to start over again in a relentless loop.