Lost (2004)

Prolific B-actor Dean Cain drives around, some unseen guy wants to kill him, and before you know it eighty minutes have passed. The plot outline doesn't really leave open many options, which is why the writing is that ingenious. This is a really difficult movie to turn of, mostly because of the smart plot developments and the (despite his actions) very sympathetic hero. It also has a general uncomforting style which always implies something bad is going to happen, it just doesn't tell you what exactly. The movie without a doubt benefits from its short running time, because just when it starts to drag, we really get this killer of an ending. I knew they wouldn't be playing it straight-forward, but this is really a good surprise ending. There's nothing bad I can say about this charming little movie.

This movie has almost made me lose faith in film entirely. Did someone actually think it was a good idea to make it? What small, pathetic scraps of a plot line that this film actually contained were overwhelmed by about 60 minutes of nothing.Yes.Nothing. That is what this movie is. I was even naiive enough to hold out hope that Lost would perhaps redeem itself with some amazing ending... Needless to say, I was sorely disappointed. This from someone who is VERY open-minded about all forms of art. Sometimes, movies just should not be seen. This is one of those times.(However if you do have too much time on your hands and want to see an impressively boring movie... Lost is just the ticket

I heard the movie was bad...I heard it was boring...I heard it was itself, lost. However, the mere thought of staring at Dean Cain, and only Dean Cain, for 90 minutes didn't seem like a bad idea...and at first, it seemed to pay off. The movie started off incredibly well-paced, the plot unfolded perfectly, as were learned more about Cain's character, and what he's doing lost in the desert. The movie hooked me quickly, and did manage to hold my interest through it's running time. Dean did a find job, as did Lemke, a first time director. However, the WRITING...it was atrocious. Somehow the writers envisioned the main character as a grown man, a business man, as someone who talks with people like a teenage boy to his toked up pals. I tryed counting how many times he said 'man', but I lost track. You know..."I can't believe this, man", "how could you do that, man?", "hey man, what's your problem?!". I mean, seriously...it got to be a bit much. Also, they had his character doing some of the most ridiculously stupid crap that any living person could do while lost in the desert...such as fail to ask a cop for directions, and trading in your perfectly functioning BMW for a $500 Ford truck, that you don't even know runs, for the sole reason that you want to avoid a cop that doesn't like you littering (at least, that's how it seemed, since there was really no point otherwise). Towards the end, the movie became so predictable, I was sure my assumption had to be wrong. It just couldn't be the resolution...it's too easy! Sure enough though, it was. Some great acting on Dean's part (for what he had to work with, anyway), an interesting story (before it took a wrong turn, no pun intended), and decent direction made this movie a 6/10; and surprisingly, I'd probably watch it again (perhaps something to do with staring at Dean Cain for 90 minutes, ).

all in all it was a pretty good flick,but a few questions need to be addressed;first off he was driving a brand new something perhaps a BMW i dunno couldn't really tell, but he did run low on fuel and had to stop and fill up,but later when he was driving the 1980,81 ford f-150 p.u. gas was no longer an issue.(i drove one of those gas hogs for years),and his ran pretty damn good for $500; 2.if archer was such a good Apache tracker why couldn't he see the rush cover-up job that Stanton did with his tire tracks in the sand when he hid behind the billboard? i mean the apache man did see a cigarette butt on the highway while doing 70!; 3. how in the hell did archer figure out he was using g.p.s. and Judy at that? but in the end i thought she was working with the feds and was leading him into a trap for a reward.