For those who decided that Studio movies like “Madame Web” Or “Rebel Moon” was among the worst film of 2024, I have good news for you: they were not even close. Certain courageous criticisms, or even the courageous explorers of the deep trenches of the cinematographic offers of 2024 can have much more disastrous stories for you, telling stories of the stupid shareholder of Neil Marshall “the duchess”, or the embarrassing deification of Ronald Reagan from Sean McNamara in “Reagan”. Have you even heard of the parody of Nick Frost’s horror sitcom “Krazy House”, or the Netflix “Mary” biblical drama?
The films mentioned above all have one thing in common: they were voted among the ten worst films of the year, as evaluated by metacritics. Metacritic, for those who do not visit the website, is a film reviewer. The site brings together several professional written criticisms and each bubbles with a score from one to 100. It then calculates the average score in all its collected criticisms, obtaining a general feeling of knowing whether a film has been examined or not positively or negatively. Like Rotten Tomatoes, it is hardly scientific – the opinions of the film are not a science – but it is a good way to have a very wide idea of how the critical community reacts to something.
However, with regard to the most revised films of the year, we stand out below all the others. Gino Jh McKoy “Lumina” science fiction thriller with Eric Roberts. Metacritic’s aggregator found that “Lumina” had accumulated an average score of six out of 100 (on the basis of only four opinions). Because her journals have all been deemed negative, “Lumina” also has an unnatiable approval rating of 0% on Rotten Tomatoes.
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What is Lumina?
Not only “Lumina” was poorly examined, but it was made in summary circumstances. The filmmakers turned it in 2020 and did not respect the COVVI-19 security protocols. Sag and other unions have warned actors and other filmmakers to stay away from “Lumina”. Consequently, the film was made without support SAG, WGA or DGA.
The film was not widely announced and opened on 200 screens in mid-July 2024. When it bombed with only $ 23,000, its production company Golve continued the distributor Wild About Movies (and its CEO Timothy Nasson ) for having poorly managed the film. The “Lumina” advertising budget was around $ 4 million in itself. The trial, According to the Hollywood Reporteralleged that “Lumina” had been promised 300 screens in the AMC theaters and 500 others in the Regal cinemas. He failed this promise and Golove took Nasson to court.
“Lumina” is a science fiction thriller about a character named Alex (Rupert Lazarus) who finds himself swept away in a romantic drama involving his girlfriend Tatiana (Eleanor Williams) and her ex Deliah (Andrea Tivada). When Tatiana is apparently removed by extraterrestrials, Alex, discouraged, brings together Deliah, as well as his friends Patricia (Sidney Nicole Rogers) and George (Ken Lawson) to investigate her disappearance. Eric Roberts embodies the conspiracy theorist who provides the film with a brief exhibition discharge.
According to Brian Talrico Zero Star Review on Rogerebert.com“Lumina” is a kind of bad. It is so terrible, so incompetently made, if illogically said, that it deserves to be mentioned with notorious putures like “the play” or “Birdatemic: shock and terror”. Michael Nordine, writing for the varietywas slightly more generous, saying that “Lumina” actually had honorable intentions, but that her horrible script and her wooden performance have undermined any potential drama.
Who is Gino JH MCKOY?
“Lumina” was a passionate project of the filmmaker Gino Jh McKoy. He is recognized as director, writer, producer and musician. Nordine’s criticism underlines that McKoy also has the author of several songs on the soundtrack. It was really the work of a crazy author, a passionate filmmaker who will not be blocked by a lack of resources or, as the critics describe, the lack of talent. “Lumina” ends with an intertele describing the number of people kidnapped by extraterrestrials each year, giving the film a Docu-Drame subactif that, by his descriptions, he did not win. McKoy had at least the common sense of not embarking on the main role.
McKoy began his career to write music and wrote some notable hymns of the FIFA World Cup and the Cricket World Cup in 2006 and 2007. He is from Trinidad, and his first album, “West Indies Forever “was released in 2004. He moved into feature films in 2015, after writing and making a practically unknown film entitled” Little Mizz Innocent “,” With Olga Kurylenko. According to the Spyculture websiteHowever, the film had still not obtained a distribution four years later. It seems that the FBI has read the script, but just to verify its veracity, not because there was something unfortunate in progress.
McKoy’s second feature film is “Lumina”, and his status as a worst film of 2024 (according to Metacritic, anyway) can draw the attention of movies to the world. No one wants to see a bad film, but there is a certain breed of courageous who likes to see the worst films of all time. It’s free on Amazon, and whoever likes to dig in dirt may want to try it. Those who are looking for a real science fiction film … Well, the critics warned you.
