Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die

A man from the future walks into an LA diner and starts assembling a crew from the disgruntled people already sitting in the booths — a lovely engine for a film, and this one runs on it. The threat is a rogue artificial intelligence, the window is a single night, and the recruitment has to be exact, which turns the diner into a puzzle box before anyone leaves the parking lot. The tagline sells a revolution; the premise suggests something stranger and more talkative.

This is for viewers who like ensemble science fiction with attitude and a stylized edge, where the appeal is watching mismatched people be argued into a mission. At two hours and fourteen minutes it is the longest kind of one-night story, so expect digressions, personality and a plot that unspools rather than sprints. Worth queuing up if you enjoy end-of-the-world capers that care as much about the crew as the countdown.