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Jeff Spry

'Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die' feels like '12 Monkeys' meets 'Shaun of the Dead' and a whole lot of AI dread (review)

A bearded man with a crazy wire-filled hat.

Anyone who's recently stood in line for a bagel or coffee at the local bakery and seen everyone staring dazedly at their cell phones, seemingly afraid to be alone with their own thoughts for two minutes, will totally relate to "Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die," the provocative new sci-fi time travel comedy directed by Gore Verbinski and starring the perpetually off-kilter Sam Rockwell.

Here, Verbinski (Rango, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl) returns to Hollywood filmmaking form with a harsh biting satire on the corrupting ills of smartphones, AI, VR video games, and the toxic evils of social media.

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