AI is a plagiarism machine that can only create by reconfiguring preexisting materials. So it only makes sense that director Gore Verbinski uses the same tactic to skewer the technology taking over our world in Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die (Feb. 13, in theaters).
A biting sci-fi adventure that interjects a handful of Black Mirror-esque vignettes into a narrative indebted to the works of Terry Gilliam (12 Monkeys, The Fisher King, Brazil), Night of the Living Dead, Village of the Damned, Ready Player One, and Groundhog Day—the last of which it overtly references—the new film is a caustic call to arms against our artificial-intelligence future.
Verbinski has long been one of Hollywood’s most inventive directors, bringing elastic, cartoony verve and imagination to films such as Mouse Hunt, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (and its first two sequels), Rango, and The Lone Ranger.
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