Alex's girlfriend Tatiana disappears suddenly in a flash of a blinding light. Completely traumatized by the situation, Alex, along with his friends and a conspiracy theorist, embarks on a journey through a desert, during which they encounter unexpected challenges that compel them to fight for their lives and discover the truth that will change their lives.
In 2020, SAG-AFTRA instructed its members to avoid working on the film Lumina, which allegedly failed to comply with required COVID-19 safety standards as per the union's Global Rule One, making it one of the few movies to proceed without union support.[9][10][11]
Filming
Lumina was filmed in Marrakesh, Ouarzazate, Agafay, and the Atlas Mountains areas of Morocco.[12] The sci-fi sets were built at the CLA studios in Ouarzazate.[11] Despite the challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic, the production was able to navigate the obstacles and proceed with filming.[13]
Reception
On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 0% of 18 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 2.2/10.[14]Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 6 out of 100, based on 4 critics, indicating "overwhelming dislike".[15] Metacritic named it the worst movie of 2024.[16]
Brian Tallerico of RogerEbert.com gave the film zero out of four stars and wrote, "There are bad movies, there are really bad movies, and then there's Lumina, a film so breathtaking in its overall incompetence that one starts to wonder if it's not intentionally so in the hope of being the next The Room or Birdemic. How else to explain some of the laughable shot choices, inconsistent characters, nonsensical plotting, and dialogue that sounds like it was either produced by A.I. or Google Translate of a script written in another language?"[17]
Michael Nordine of Variety also gave the film a negative review, writing, "Its ambitions are lofty, but they're also undermined at nearly every turn by chintzy visual effects that prove more distracting than immersive and uniformly wooden performances. It wants to be a space opera but is closer to a soap opera, albeit one that would air on Syfy rather than CBS."[18]
Kecia Gayle of Hollywood Unlocked praised the movie and wrote "this is the movie many critics claim is the new cult classic on the block. There's no exaggeration there because it really punches way above its weight".[19]
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