The classrooms are occupied by students glued to their phones. An all-powerful AI is slowly seeping into every home and controlling what people do. The reliance on technology has made the physical connection between people more distant, and no one really pays attention to each other anymore. While this sounds like a future we are heading to, it is the world the characters of Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die live in. To prevent this from happening, it is up to an unknown traveller to choose the right group of diners.

Sam Rockwell is the unknown traveler from the future who visits an unsuspecting group of diners to tell them of their upcoming fate. Rockwell is over-the-top in telling the diners about what is coming, but he has done this bit a few times before. Similar to Dr. Strange seeing all the possibilities of the Avengers defeating Thanos, Rockwell has been to this diner many times, trying to find the right combination of people to save the world.

In the opening scene, we see how Rockwell’s character already knows what some of the diners are going to do before they do it. This moment highlights the absurdity that the audience will experience throughout the movie. Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die takes the viewers on a wild trip that has to be seen to be believed. Knowing what is going to happen on their journey is interesting, especially when things that stump Rockwell’s character.

The members of the group have their own moment to shine during their chapters of the movie. Within these segments, we learn a little bit about them. These segments also drop hints at what is to come. One of the more surreal chaters it the one of Juno Temple’s character, Susan. Susan suffers a tragic event and is introduced to a company that can help her move forward. While this moment seems farfetched it is not until she gets the product from the company that things start to take a turn. She meets others that have gone through a similar incident and finds out how they have used the company to make different versions of the product just for fun. This segment will raise concerns amongst a certain population of the viewers. 

Ingrid, Haley Lu Richardson, has the one story that is the heart of the movie. Each segment shows how the characters go to where they are, but in Ingrid’s segment, we get her whole story. Ingrid was born with a certain condition that not only becomes useful but also helps understand her mindstate. Richardson plays Ingird at such a level that the audience will hope she survives the ordeal.

The movie does get heavy-handed when talking about the dangers of AI. As the group makes their way to the endpoint, tales are told about how the world ended, which eerily resemble some of the things we are seeing in our world today. The final act of the movie not only reveals a few twists but ramps up the level of bizarre and the dangers that come for the group. Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die could be a vision of what is to come, but stalls a little in the middle of the movie. These moments disrupt the fast-paced flow from the beginning, but do not detract from the crazy ride the audience will have.

Final Thoughts: Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die is a crazy ride to save the future with some fun acting by the cast. The story does drag towards the middle, but redeems itself by the final act. All of the cast is fantastic, and Haley Lu Richardson is the heart of the movie. It would be great to see another version of this movie with a different group.

Violence: Good Luck, Don’t Die, Have Fun has a good amount of violence through shootings, fight scenes, and bad words.

Kid-Friendly: The film is rated R for language and some intense scenes. This could be a great film to show kids about the dangers of phone addiction, but the violence might be too much for younger kids.

A dark night. A crowded diner. A man with a detonator bursts in proclaiming to be from the future. This is the 117th time he’s returned with the same imperative. Before time runs out, he must recruit a group of distinctly unqualified diner patrons (Haley Lu Richardson, Michael Peña, Zazie Beetz, Asim Chaudhry, and Juno Temple) to stop the impending AI apocalypse and save humanity from the perils of social media.The problem? Everything is stacked against them–from skeptical strangers and brain-rotted teenagers, to algorithmic monstrosities beyond their control. But if this unlikely group can pull it off, the world might just turn out okay…. Or not, I dunno!