Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die
Playful sci-fi comedy in which a mysterious ‘man from the future’ (Sam Rockwell) tries to assemble the exact right group of people in a Los Angeles restaurant to save the world from artificial intelligence.
What initially looks like a robbery soon turns out to be a much stranger proposition: the ‘man from the future’ has to recruit the exact right combination of people from the customers present to embark on a nighttime mission to save the world from an artificial intelligence. It requires only a little persuasion and the ‘gentle’ threat to blow up the entire joint for him to secure the volunteers. This motley crew then plunges itself into a dystopian adventure in a constant race against time. With zombie teenagers, robot dolls run amok and all manner of other bizarre things on the rampage. Good luck, have fun, don’t die!
Director Gore Verbinski, known for the horror classic The Ring and the first three instalments of Pirates Of The Caribbean, spent years in ‘director jail’; after a few financially disappointing films, he was unable to secure funding for his projects. This marks his comeback: a creative, satirical action film with a budget of ‘just’ twenty million. Whether that budget will be recouped quickly with this strange spectacle – think Terminator 2 meets Groundhog Day with nods to video games – remains to be seen. But the film could well go on to become a cult classic.
Written by MDV