GOOD LUCK, HAVE FUN, DON’T DIE (4K): A Boomer's Confirmation

GOOD LUCK, HAVE FUN, DON’T DIE (4K + Blu-ray)

2026 / 135 min

Universal

Available at MovieZyng

Review by Princess Pepper😺

At the risk of sounding like an angry old boomer yelling at clouds, I’m of the belief that AI is ruining everything…from art to social media to critical thinking itself. Making matters worse, we’re happily giving the environment a collective middle finger just so we can make paintings depicting the president as Jesus without ever picking up a brush.

Hell, I was yelling at clouds even before AI reared its ugly head. Just ask my family, who’ve endured endless rantings over how cell phones have rendered people more isolated, self-absorbed and a hell of a lot dumber. Everyone has a good chuckle at my expense before going back to scrolling their Tick Tocks (Boomerspeak for TikTok).

But this ol’ boomer is hardly alone, and the very first scene of Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die perfectly sums-up damn near everything that irritates and worries me about our addictive relationship with technology. Not only that, it’ll bring about an apocalypse that we won’t even notice coming because it turns out that AI promises a better life than the one reality provides.

This ominous future is laid-out by “the man from the future” (Sam Rockwell), who descends on an LA diner one night to recruit people in order to save the world from a child-created AI that’s about to go online and will ultimately result in civilization’s downfall. Most of the diners think he’s crazy, of course, but not only does he know things about them he shouldn’t (this is his 117th attempt to recruit a team), he reveals a bomb attached to his chest. So at the very least, he has their attention.

"I just flew in from the future, and boy, are my arms tired."

He does manage to assemble another eclectic group of volunteers, and that’s when the fun begins. To elaborate on the story any further would spoil the party, but rest assured, Good Luck, Have, Fun, Don’t Die is a sci-fi action-comedy (and a damn funny one) that’s more tonally similar to Everything Everywhere All at Once than, say, The Terminator. The film is loaded with amusing characters, each with their own backstory, which are presented as flashbacks (including a tragic one). Not only do those side stories become relevant to the plot, all involve some kind of bizarre variation of technology that currently exists (and the ominous implications that suggests). There are times this almost plays like an anthology film with saving the world serving as a wraparound story.

Speaking of story, Good Luck, Have, Fun, Don’t Die might be the most original sci-fi comedy since Michelle Yeoh stumbled into the multiverse, its narrative nicely blending science-fiction, social satire, black comedy, absurdist humor and even a few serious themes. Gore Verbinski returns to the director’s chair for the first time in nearly a decade with the best film of his career, with considerable help from imaginative visuals (love the centaur cat!), Matthew Robinson’s witty screenplay and great cast lead by Sam Rockwell, who looks like he’s having a hell of a lot of fun.

The movie bombed in theaters, which is too bad because, Project Hail Mary being a notable recent exception, we don’t get a lot of original sci-fi these days. I suppose that’s more Boomerspeak saying Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die is nothing if not unique. Smart, exciting, quirky and very funny, it’s so-far one of the best movies of 2026 that hardly anyone has seen. 

EXTRA KIBBLES

FEATURETTE - The Making of Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die is a perfunctory 5-minute promotional spot.