Film: Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die

What would you do if a strangely dressed man walked into a restaurant and declared that within it was the perfect configuration of people to save humanity?

I wanted to see this film based on a snippet of an interview I caught on 6 Music with Asim Chaudhry, who plays one of the LA diners. (The boy has done good.) As I recall, he said something like: when a weirdly dressed Sam Rockwell walks into a diner and tells you that you need to go with him to save the world, you listen. I knew nothing else about the film when I turned up at the cinema — uncharacteristically, late evening, whereas normally I go mid-afternoon. I was glad I did, and just thinking about it now makes me want to see it again.

As it turns out, the man is from the future and has returned many times to this exact same scenario, hoping for a different outcome. So yes, the film is sci-fi — but absolutely bonkers sci-fi.

Children killed in school shootings are cloned. Those kids are utterly addicted to their phones, and no adult can do a thing about it. And the Future Man is searching for a nine-year-old who, apparently, is controlling all AI.

What's not to be enthralled by?

8/10