Are we already on the verge of an AI apocalypse? That’s what you could easily glean from Gore Verbinski’s first movie in 10 years, the sci-fi action comedy Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die. The movie follows Sam Rockwell’s time traveler, who takes the customers of a Los Angeles diner hostage, recruiting a select group to help him avert the AI apocalypse. It’s not the first time he’s done this and failed. Again. And again.
It feels like a far-fetched premise — after all, time travel and humanity-destroying robots are still things of science fiction. But the world that we’re introduced to in Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die doesn’t feel that different from our own. Everyone is glued to their phones, swiping from one mindless 30-second video to another. Teenagers eagerly buy new products advertised to them en masse. And there’s an odd, glowing image that appears on each phone that seems to brainwash all high school students — okay, that one is a bit far-fetched. But it was important to Verbinski that his film shows just how close we are to experiencing the beginnings of the AI apocalypse.
