We’re all guilty of pulling out our phones and watching stressful headlines or mind-numbing videos when we should be doing something else. We know it’s bad, but we still do it because it’s hard to resist when most of our time is spent living and working on our devices. And even though we think we’d be better off with less screen time, our highly online society doesn’t exactly encourage that kind of healthy behavior.
These are some familiar ideas at work May you be successful have fun, don’t die, The new sci-fi film from director Gore Verbinski is about one man’s desperate fight to save humanity from an apocalyptic future where machines have taken over the world. Although the film’s time-traveling, robot-fighting premise immediately calls terminator And matrix Keep the franchise in mind, Good luck, enjoy, don’t die A much weirder and more whimsical exploration of our anxieties about artificial intelligence.
At times, the film stumbles as it tries to comically convey all the ways in which yesterday’s societal collapse can be traced to our current screen addiction. but equally detached may you be successfulIt speaks directly to our current moment, being constantly bombarded with brain-soothing content while being driven to mindlessly adopt new technology.
Set primarily in present-day Los Angeles, may you be successful It follows an unnamed man claiming to be from the future (the surprisingly magnetic Sam Rockwell) as he keeps an eatery and tries to convince its patrons to join him in order to stop the AI from becoming an unstoppable threat. In the time traveler’s reality, what is left of humanity has gone into hiding. At first, no one in the restaurant pays much attention to what the man says. But they all begin to take him more seriously when he opens his homemade time travel suit – which looks like a pile of trash he’s taped together – and tells them he’s strapped himself with explosives.
Although there’s a crazy madness on the way Good luck, enjoy, don’t die Introducing its world-weary protagonist, the film shifts gears repeatedly as it peeks into the lives of the people he hopes are the right people to recruit to his cause. The film feels like C-tier horror as it recounts the day when teachers Janet (Zazie Beetz) and Mark (Michael Pena) are trapped in a school full of students who are hypnotized by a strange signal emanating from their phones. But when we get a glimpse into the life of Ingrid (Haley Lu Richardson), a woman who struggles to keep a job because of her unusual allergy to Wi-Fi signals, the risqué feelings are based more on relationship drama.
Despite visiting that specific eatery dozens of times in the past, the man of the future isn’t entirely sure which combination of people is right. It’s only because he already knows so much information about them all that some people begin to believe that he might be telling the truth. And while none of them are entirely sure the man can be trusted, Susan (Juno Temple) – a mother who has recently gone through a devastating loss – feels that the things he’s saying are directly connected to the personal challenges they’re all dealing with.
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Matthew Robinson’s script has a tendency to be a little too busy, but the film’s RashomonA similar approach to unveiling its bigger story comes from Verbinski – whose last film, a cure for wellness, premiered nine years ago – plenty of room to play with his directorial style. He often leans toward a visual hyperactivity that echoes Future Man’s physical nervousness and reflects the film’s ideas about the dangers of being overstimulated by technology. That energy works especially well during some of these may you be successfulThere are even more absurd action sequences involving creatures that look like indictments of general AI slop. But the film’s most effective scene comes when Verbinski slows his camera down to let us see just how strange and chaotic this world currently is.
even when Good luck, enjoy, don’t die Tumbling over its own feet to weave its narrative together, the film is an inspired joyride that’s trying to say a little bit of everything that makes life in 2026 feel like we’re headed into the abyss. And in this moment when Hollywood is racing to get everyone to embrace the general AI agenda, it’s a relief to see someone tell us that the sky is falling fast, even if he’s wearing a bomb strapped to his chest.
Good luck, enjoy, don’t die It also stars Aseem Choudhary, Tom Taylor, Ricardo Drayton, Dino Fetscher, Anna Acton, Daniel Barnett, Dominic Maher, Adam Burton and Georgia Goodman. This film will be released in theaters on 13 February.
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