Gore Verbinski's Unhinged AI Movie Is a Mess Worth Making

In case the end of the world didn’t already feel close, Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die makes it feel inevitable. Director Gore Verbinski (Pirates of the Caribbean, Rango) returns after a nine-year absence with a film that is overstuffed, overlong, and chaotic, and yet still strangely compelling. I can smell a cult film in the making: It’s not a crowd-pleasing blockbuster, but something messier, riskier, and far more interesting.

In this science fiction action-comedy, a man from the future (Sam Rockwell) travels to the past to recruit a group of ordinary civilians to fight a rogue artificial intelligence. Rockwell is perfectly cast, bringing a manic, unpredictable energy to the role that feels like it could combust at any moment, yet still finds moments of sincerity.

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