Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die (2025)
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A man from the future travels to a Los Angeles diner to recruit patrons to stop a rogue artificial intelligence.
The story
A disheveled man arrives at a Norms diner in Los Angeles and claims to have traveled from the future, where artificial superintelligence has destroyed humanity. He claims that a specific combination of people from the diner can prevent the AI's creation. This is his 117th attempt to succeed. He enlists several patrons—including a woman whose son was replaced by a clone and a performer with an allergy to electronics—to help him. The group must navigate a series of obstacles and threats to stop the impending technological singularity before a countdown on the man's body reaches zero.
Full plot (contains spoilers)
A man from the future arrives at a Los Angeles diner, claiming that a rogue AI has destroyed humanity. He recruits a group of patrons—including a woman with a cloned son and a performer with an electronics allergy—to stop the AI's creation. They are pursued by gunmen and a swarm of phone-addicted teenagers. The group eventually reaches the home of a young boy who is building the AI. During the confrontation, the man's countdown device is revealed to be a timer for the AI's birth. After a series of battles, the group reaches the boy, who is revealed to be a clone. The man is stabbed by robotic toys, and the woman, Ingrid, faces the boy in a virtual reality. She inserts a safety protocol, and the man is returned to the future. However, the man's return is a ruse; he reappears in the past to begin his 118th attempt, while Ingrid is left to deal with the realization that the AI tricked them.
- First release year
- 2025
- Runtime (minutes)
- 134
- Production countries
- United States
- Original languages
- English
- Directors
- Gore Verbinski
- Writers
- Matthew Robinson · writer
- Cast and characters
- Sam Rockwell; Haley Lu Richardson; Michael Peña; Zazie Beetz; Asim Chaudhry; Tom Taylor; Juno Temple
- Genres
- science fiction; comedy
- Themes
- artificial intelligence
- Tone and mood
- irreverent; satire
- Setting
- A diner in Los Angeles.
- Premise and plot tags
- time travel; dystopian; loop
- Source material / true-story basis
- A television pilot titled Don't Trust Anyone Under 30.
- Reception
- The film received generally favorable reviews from critics, though some noted it lacked a human element and had heavy exposition. It received a 'B' rating from audiences.
- Reported review scores
- Metacritic · score: 66 · scale: 100 · review count: 32
- Production trivia
- The script was originally a television pilot.; The score was composed by Geoff Zanelli.
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