Parents' Guide to

Lumina

By Jeffrey M. Anderson, Common Sense Media Reviewer

age 15+

Truly inept alien abduction movie has violence, language.

Movie R 2024 112 minutes
Lumina Movie Poster: A human skull appears inside a smashed-up space helmet, lying in the dirt of a strange planet

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Paid Critics are lying about this movie to prop up Longlegs and other studio films..

This has to be one of the most biased and racist reviews of all time, this critic is mentioning things that are not present in the movie. unintentionally funny? It's a tongue in cheek, campy sci fi movie, with comedy in it, intentional comedy and laughs, all of these white critics are continuing to bash a movie that's better than what they are recommending. Audience reviews and audiences love this movie, critics are lying and saying it's unintentional comedy, which it is not. It's intentional, so they frame it in the worse way possible to create a lie to rate it badly.. Watch the movie for yourself, enjoy it, it's funny and speaks about things that actually have happened... a real cult classic and more like from dusk till dawn and machete kills ... This is not the room, another blatant lie by these pseudo critics that don't have a creative bone in their body..

Is It Any Good?

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A possible contender to join the list of The Worst Movies of All Time, this sci-fi thriller seems to be earnest but is actually inept and laughable due to bad writing, acting, effects, and more. As in The Room, the characters in Lumina seem to be trying to be honest and open with one another, and they're all supposed to be best pals, helping one another out on this adventure. But their behavior is erratic and even rude, and they all wind up being unpleasant. Alex is arguably the most painful, spending at least 30 minutes of the movie's running time yowling in agony (and growing a big, bushy beard) over the loss of his girlfriend, rather than getting the story going.

But Delilah is a close second, ready to backstab anyone for a chance at her rich dream boy. And George is a third-rate Chris Tucker knock-off, a squeaky-voiced comic sidekick who seems entirely out of place. The dialogue is right out of an Ed Wood movie, with lines like "going on a wild witch hunt" or "they got in there and they put stuff in there that wasn't there before." And, like Battlefield Earth, Lumina cluelessly tries to wow us with ridiculous monsters and monotone sets. The best thing about Lumina is that it's unintentionally funny (and weird in a bad way), and, like Showgirls, Sharknado, and others, it could pivot its awfulness toward becoming a cult classic to viewers who understand it for what it is.

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