It's been a decade since we had a movie "Gore Verbinsky", which is Traversz because he is one of our best directors on blockbuster movies there. Verbinsky is a director with an eye for well-used VFX, which is very rare in Hollywood these days-Detal Onesons remains one of the greatest computer graphic creatures of all time, while his animated film "Rango" was so good that he did ILM choose that project instead of working on Avatar.

Verbinskin knows how to make even a small story to feel huge, whether it's a ball to the Wallid madness of "mouse hunt" or his Ring remake-probably single The best remake of English on a horror movie ever made. Now, he has finally returned after years of working on an animated Musical for Netflix without any benefit, and that is a big return for the director.

"Happy, have fun, don't die" starts unnoticed, with a regular night at a dinner in Los Angeles, where patrons enjoy their meals, each of them has their own story, but otherwise it doesn't attract attention. Then Sam Rockwell arrives as a man dressed in what can only be described as a techno-hobo-core, clothing that is clearly made by everything found at the Cyberpunk Cosplay store landfill. The man, with his long and tough hair and mixed inconvenience, wastes time to make a scene. He says he is of the future and seeks volunteers to help him destroy hostile artificial intelligence before destroying the world. Well, no one takes it seriously - at the beginning. But he begins to address patrons with confident closeness, saying he says he has done this over 130 times. Is that nuts? Is it a tied contraction around the chest with a time machine or a makeshift bomb? Why does he know how much this random patron has in his pocket?

What follows is real boxers, ball-to-wallids, a funny scientific adventure that begins as a "repo man" and ends up to go full "Akira". Bold, there is a great team, it's one of the highest films for genres for years. It's great to come back Gorbinski.

Although comparisons with "Black Mirror" should be expected, "happy, have fun, do not die" feels more in line with "Mitchels against machines" in how he or she inflicts heart with absurdistic humor and often a cartoon story about our dystopian connection with technology. Probably the hardest and most terrifying film she gets is in its shootout. The script by Matthew Robinson ("Loveube and Monsters") focuses on not only the tragedy, but in the unfortunate way such a tragedy has become commonplace for the point of being rudimentary to the American experience.

It shows that duality first explains in the retrospective how two teachers in schools (featured by Michael Peña and Zazi Beto) ended up in dinner at the beginning of the story. Through the eyes of the face of Peña, we see how strange it is normal and teachers and students treat shooting in schools, with all hunting in a safe room and just moving through social media, ignoring what is happening outside - before going for their day without any care after emergency. But through the story of the character played by the Juno Temple, we experience the true tragedy of losing a child of such meaningless violence. And yet, there is still humor on the cheek for all this, as other parents treat shooting as just another extracurricular activity; Another PTA meeting to be attended every few months.

No matter how dark (and funny), such as the treatment of the film for school shootings, the anger of "Happiness, have fun, do not die" is directly directed to AI and social media. The film is constantly arguing that social media was the beginning of the end for civilization as we know it, and AI is only its herald of apocalypse, its and only cavalry.

Towards the end, when the film starts playing around the idea of ​​simulations and VR, creating wild inventive visuals to confuse the audience about what is and is not real, the film loses a little steam - especially when it becomes a full "Akira" in terms of horror and metaphysical conversation. However, it is easy to get into the wavelength of "happiness, have fun, don't die" and just be together for driving. Although the smallest movie of Verbini from "Mouse Hunting", he still feels as ambitious as the director's blockbuster work.

/Movie rating: 8 out of 10

"Good luck, have fun, don't die," he premiered at "Fantastic Fest". Wille opened in theaters on January 30, 2026.