Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die

It’s energetic, bonkers, and very funny. It’s also two-and-a-quarter hours long, and I didn’t begrudge it a single minute.

With Oscar-winner Sam Rockwell as its tempestuous engine, it’s a captivatingly silly saga about the pitfalls of our modern techno-obsessiveness.

It’s wrapped in an original, funny piece of entertainment, but this is also undeniably a warning.

At times the film feels like “Black Mirror” on peyote.

This starts strong but doesn’t always have the room to explore all the ideas it crams in, even with a lengthy running time. Still, Rockwell’s man-on-a-mission is a delight.

An ambitious but ultimately sloppy time-travel epic, Good Luck wants to deliver an incendiary critique of artificial intelligence and our reliance on big tech. Yet it ends up being so exhausting and weirdly dull that it will force audiences to pull out their phones out of sheer restlessness.

This silly, simplistic sci-fi journey means to be thought-provoking, but the irony of its banality is more recoiling than provocative.

[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]

If Terry Gilliam directed ‘Everything Everywhere All At Once’ and ‘Terminator’ at the same time, with some ‘Black Mirror’ shorts included.

Vernbinski was one of the most dependable hit maker back in the early 00's, but went into director hell due to 2 significant flops. He is now back with this quirky flick, which biggest problems is that it puts in so many ideas that it is sort of did not gel together that well in one movie. It is also overlong which hurts this film even more.

Not my cup of tea. Expectations, right? I was hoping for a fun unhinged sci-fi adventure, I got presumptuous nihilistic AI comedy. The jokes, despite the excellent Sam Rockwell, were cringely unfunny. The story, predictable... from the 2nd half of the movie... otherwise I wouldn't have watched it... duh. The drama blunt and shallow. It's like a candy, which looks interesting and weird, but tastes just like candy-coated peanuts. Horrible aftertaste.

I can't recommend this movie. It can't decide what it wants to be: edgy, funny, weird, etc. but it fails at all of these. Many parts of it are dull to be honest. It's the type of movie that you sit watching saying "Oh here's where it is going to start getting good", but then it's not good. It's not futuristic. It's barely sci-fi. The actors have so very little to work with in this. I would call the overall movie weak. You watch it giving it the benefit of the doubt for over an hour, but it never gets there. You hope it does. You expect that maybe it will. It's almost lazy. It's hard to put into words. It's way over-rated. I went in not knowing what to expect and left disappointed. Walked out before the very lame ending was finished.