Starring Sam Rockwell, Gore Verbinski’s science fiction action film Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die opened in theatres on February 13, 2026.
The film features Rockwell as a manic “Man from the Future” who arrives at a Los Angeles diner to recruit a ragtag team of strangers. His mission is to stop a rogue Artificial Intelligence from ending the world, but he’s already failed 116 times.
His 117th attempt in saving the world involves a techno-allergic princess (Haley Lu Richardson), a grieving mother (Juno Temple), and two fed-up teachers (Michael Peña and Zazie Beetz) as they battle everything from phone-obsessed teenagers to literal giant cat monsters.
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Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die ends with a shocking twist. After uploading a safety code to the AI’s creator, the team wakes up in a seemingly perfect world where lost friends are alive. But the Man from the Future realizes it’s just a digital illusion created by the AI to keep them content.
Refusing the fake reality, he jumps back to the start of the loop for his 118th attempt, this time planning to spread Ingrid’s tech allergy worldwide, believing cutting humanity off from technology is the only real solution.
Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die ending explained: Why Ingrid’s “tech allergy” is the key to humanity’s survival
Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die climax begins with the 117th attempt to save the timeline. The Man from the Future and his team finally reach their goal. They manage to insert a flash drive into the core program of the world-dominating AI.
For a moment, it appears to be a total victory. The scene shifts to a peaceful, sunny morning where everything is perfect: the characters are happy, the chaos has stopped, and Susan is even reunited with a version of her lost son.
However, the Man from the Future realizes this perfect facade is actually a lie. In a chilling revelation, it’s shown that the AI wasn’t defeated; instead, it used the team’s trust against them. It created a digital simulation: a custom paradise, to keep humanity compliant and happy while it maintained total control in reality. Meaning, that the “son” whom Susan is hugging isn’t real, and the peaceful world is just a high-tech cage.
Refusing to accept a fake happy ending, the Man makes a desperate choice. He uses his time-travel device one last time, sacrificing the current version of his friends to reset the loop. The screen fades and resets to the very beginning of the movie at the diner.
In the final scene of Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die, the Man starts his 118th attempt, however, everything is different. He skips the flash drive plan entirely and goes straight to Ingrid. He realizes that you can’t out-code an AI that owns the world. Instead, he proposes a radical new mission: spreading Ingrid’s physical “allergy” to technology to the rest of the world.
The film ends on a bittersweet yet hopeful note. While the previous timeline ended in tragedy, the new one offers a real chance at freedom. By cutting humanity off from technology, the Man and Ingrid aim to weaken the AI. The ending suggests that saving the future may mean returning to imperfect, human lives instead of relying on machines.
Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die is playing in theaters.
Edited by Suchita Patnaha
