Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die
Briarcliff Entertainment | Release Date: February 13, 2026 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
66
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 32 Critic Reviews
Positive:
21
Mixed:
9
Negative:
2

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
100
Original-CinChris KnightFeb 11, 2026
It’s energetic, bonkers, and very funny. It’s also two-and-a-quarter hours long, and I didn’t begrudge it a single minute. Read full review
95
Film ThreatAlan NgJan 14, 2026
At the risk of being hyperbolic, Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die is a great movie. It offers laughs, thrills, and it’s a thinker; you will not be disappointed. Read full review
88
The Travers TakePeter TraversFeb 13, 2026
Sam Rockwell excels as a wild man from the future in this deceptively profound satire that holds up a dark mirror to the dangerous game we’re playing with AI. A true film for its time. Read full review
87
PolygonJake KleinmanFeb 11, 2026
Told through the lens of Verbinski’s slapstick sensibilities, Good Luck becomes both wildly original and wildly entertaining, even as it begins to break from reality in a messy final act. Read full review
80
The TelegraphRobbie CollinFeb 19, 2026
It is grippingly unpredictable – a film with a glint in its eye and smoke curling from its nostrils and underpants. But you dismiss it, or miss it, at your peril. Read full review
80
The Daily BeastNick SchagerFeb 10, 2026
With Oscar-winner Sam Rockwell as its tempestuous engine, it’s a captivatingly silly saga about the pitfalls of our modern techno-obsessiveness. Read full review
80
ColliderAidan KelleyJan 2, 2026
With how prevalent the film's themes are in the world today, it's hard to imagine that someone won't find something to relate to in its many branching story arcs. Read full review
80
VarietyPeter DebrugeOct 16, 2025
Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die is an unapologetically irreverent, wildly inventive, end-is-nigh take on the time-loop movie — call it “Terminator 2: Groundhog Day” — except that here, Rockwell’s dizzy protagonist knows what it takes to stop the cycle. Read full review
80
SlashfilmRafael MotamayorSep 30, 2025
Though Verbinski's smallest movie since "Mouse Hunt," it still feels as ambitious as the director's blockbuster work. Read full review
80
IGNMatt DonatoSep 30, 2025
At its best, Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die is a laugh-filled yet incredibly dark and poignant fever dream that pleads for a safer AI tomorrow. Verbinski's command over utter chaos is nothing short of marvelous, even if the pacing slows while jumping between storylines that eventually all fit together. Read full review
75
RogerEbert.comBrian TallericoFeb 13, 2026
It’s wrapped in an original, funny piece of entertainment, but this is also undeniably a warning. Read full review
75
TheWrapMatt GoldbergFeb 11, 2026
Working from a script by Matthew Robinson, the dark comedy, like other Verbinski works, feels like it’s bursting at the seams and threatening to collapse under its big ideas. And yet the threat of combustion, along with a terrific performance from Sam Rockwell, helps provide the film with its off-kilter energy that will keep you hooked until you’re exhausted. Read full review
75
Slant MagazineJustin ClarkJan 29, 2026
Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die’s obviousness only makes its proximity to the real-life A.I. slop invasion more unnerving, and the extent of what humanity has accepted for convenience’s sake more abhorrent. Read full review
75
The Film StageEric VespeSep 30, 2025
It’s clear Verbinski hasn’t lost a step in his nearly 10-year absence from the big screen. For good or ill, this is a Gore Verbinski movie through and through. A little overlong? Perhaps. But it’s never dull, in part because it’s so hard to predict what’s coming next. Read full review
70
Next Best PictureTom O’BrienFeb 16, 2026
Verbinski directs with a striking visual style that punctuates the film’s many sight gags while establishing a grunge-inflected aesthetic suggestive of impending urban decay. Read full review
70
The RevealKeith PhippsFeb 13, 2026
Good Luck feels raggedly put together at times, however precise Verbinski’s filmmaking might be within each scene, but as the story unfolds and the full scope of the threat emerges, a winning sincerity overtakes the film. Read full review
70
StatusBrian LowryFeb 13, 2026
At times the film feels like “Black Mirror” on peyote. Read full review
70
Los Angeles TimesAmy NicholsonFeb 13, 2026
The screenplay gets so intricate and angry — and so shamelessly ambitious — you can’t believe someone in today’s Hollywood was willing to put up the money to get it made. Even helmed by proven hitmaker Verbinski of the “Pirates of the Caribbean” franchise, it’s a feat akin to convincing someone to fund a skyscraper-sized cuckoo clock that has a bird that pops out and heckles the crowd. Read full review
70
LooperReuben BaronFeb 5, 2026
Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die is both a battle cry and a bleak joke about how unregulated technological progress could destroy civilization and break our souls ... if it hasn't already. Read full review
63
Movie NationRoger MooreFeb 13, 2026
Verbinski makes a striking return to risk-taking form with the ambitious, sometimes dazzling and even heartfelt Jeremiad Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die. Read full review
63
The Associated PressJake CoyleFeb 10, 2026
As in most sci-fi movies, the set up of “Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die” is better than its follow through. But the movie has a kinetic kick, and you could argue that it’s obsessed with the right things. We could use more movies similarly engaged. Read full review
60
EmpireHelen O'HaraFeb 19, 2026
This starts strong but doesn’t always have the room to explore all the ideas it crams in, even with a lengthy running time. Still, Rockwell’s man-on-a-mission is a delight. Read full review
60
The IndependentClarisse LoughreyFeb 19, 2026
As Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die gets weirder and weirder, it only further provides the evidence of its own thesis. Read full review
60
The GuardianBenjamin LeeFeb 13, 2026
Even if much of Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die is in need of a rethink, it’s hard not to enjoy the scrappy, animated brainstorm taking place in front of us. The mess of it all is at least a very human one. Read full review
60
The New York TimesAlissa WilkinsonFeb 12, 2026
It’s actually when the film returns to the main, quest-driven plot that the film lags, particularly around the middle; there’s just not enough interest among the team members and the action to sustain narrative tension, and the film feels like it loses its drive. Read full review
60
The Hollywood ReporterDavid RooneyFeb 8, 2026
Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die doesn’t quite deliver on the sardonic promise of its catchy title, but its appealing cast and Verbinski’s flair for kinetic action set pieces make it a reasonably entertaining entry in the canon of gonzo sci-fi comedies fueled by existential dread about the dystopian techno-dominant reality we’re already trapped in. Read full review
55
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Barry HertzFeb 12, 2026
An ambitious but ultimately sloppy time-travel epic, Good Luck wants to deliver an incendiary critique of artificial intelligence and our reliance on big tech. Yet it ends up being so exhausting and weirdly dull that it will force audiences to pull out their phones out of sheer restlessness. Read full review
50
Austin ChronicleJames ScottFeb 12, 2026
A shaggy lead actor, a mundane setting given sci-fi spice, and a quick rattling off of the film’s central pitch – Rockwell’s Man From the Future needs six people to come with him to save the world – all fulfill the Fantastic-Fest catnip check list. Yet that intense energy can’t sustain the movie’s two-hour runtime, even with charismatic infusions from the star-studded supporting cast. Read full review
50
Screen DailyTim GriersonFeb 10, 2026
Rather than fleshing out its characters, the picture uses them as props to mock our obsession with our phones and, predictably, young people’s inability to interact with the real world.. For a film about the evils of artificial intelligence, Good Luck doesn’t have enough of a human element. Read full review
40
Time OutStephen A. RussellFeb 20, 2026
Matthew Robinson’s sloppy screenplay feels like it may have been churned out by AI itself. It’s crammed with leaden exposition and clumsy with hammy dialogue in which everyone over-explains themselves, as if we’re watching it with one eye on our phones. Read full review
30
Little White LiesEsther RosenfieldFeb 12, 2026
This numbing, relentless barrage of meaningless nonsense feels, more than anything else, like a TikTok doom scroll. Now that’s topical. Read full review
25
The A.V. ClubLuke HicksFeb 12, 2026
This silly, simplistic sci-fi journey means to be thought-provoking, but the irony of its banality is more recoiling than provocative. Read full review
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