Lost (I) (2004) User Reviews

Reasonably entertaining but generic and flawed

[patchworkcat · 5/10 · 17 July 2007]

As someone who couldn't stand Dean Cain in anything else I'd ever seen him in, I was expecting to have to tolerate his presence here to enjoy what sounded like an interesting film. In fact, for the most part I enjoyed his performance, finding it hard to equate with the sickly Clark Kent I'd primarily known him as. Understated, a decent range of emotion conveyed, perfectly good.

As I approached the film, since my only concern was tolerance of Dean Cain and he came through with flying colours (blue, red and yellow...? ohoho!), you might think, as I did, that settling into enjoying a taught little sleeper with a very good premise to build on would be the order of the day. Instead, I found a few too many generic set-pieces and, worse, a couple of moments of real head-slapping "I can't believe he did that" stupidity.

*****Spoilers: Examples of generic set-pieces and stupidity*****

(1) Generic: Talking badly about a dangerous third-party to a friend/associate who, like you, is in the process of escaping from him, only for it to turn out he's there with that friend/associate. (2) Generic: Possible "salvation figure" (in this case a cop) spotted and approached with intent to confess or give yourself up, their expression fixed, and as you get right to them, it turns out they're dead. (3) Stupidity: Pouring the contents of the food packages along the road, and dropping the bag there - Why not just pull over somewhere and put it all in a hole?? (4) Stupidity: Taking the truck (not to mention leaving the car in plain view). You want to evade the law, whom you've already had a bit of a brush with, but now you're in a stolen vehicle?? (I didn't see him leave any money for it) (5) Stupidity: The height of it, where I really thought the film lost a lot of credibility... Telling plans, in detail, to a basically anonymous person with no reason for "loyalty" to you (the phone navigation woman).

*****End of spoilers*****

I also found the role of Danny Trejo a disappointment... He had high billing and I was expecting/hoping to see the sort of brilliantly menacing performance he excels at but instead we get a lot of his voice and only, to memory, one glimpse of his face in the whole film...

In summary: Didn't feel I'd completely wasted my time, did watch to the end, but quite unsatisfying overall and extremely unlikely to really stick with you.

Comparisons: Not to Phone Booth. "Phone Booth in a car" is a poor comparison. He's being threatened by regular phone-calls but that's about it for similarity there. The most obvious comparison to me is The Hitcher (the original), followed by Breakdown, an element of Duel and any number of "person being chased by villain/s they double-crossed" type chase films before you get to Phone Booth.

Proper Planning is the Key for a Successful Road Trip

[claudio_carvalho · 6/10 · 5 July 2008]

While traveling from Green Lawn, California, to meet his wife and son in Red Ridge, Nevada, the driver Jeremy Stanton (Dean Cain) gets lost in a secondary road through the desert following an old edition of the Road-Aid Travel Guide maps. He calls the Road-Aid operator Judy (Ashley Scott), who tries to give directions to her client. Meanwhile, the police is chasing the criminals that have committed a bank heist in California. When Jeremy's Mercedes Benz runs out gas, he finds an isolated gas station in the middle of nowhere that operates with cash-only. When Jeremy opens the truck of his car, he opens a bag full of money, disclosing the reason of his road-trip.

"Lost" is probably the lowest-budget movie I have ever seen. The story hooks the attention of the viewer until the very last scene, is flawed and predictable. First, it is annoying to see Jeremy Stanton wearing necktie in a totally stressed situation through the heat of the desert. How can a man feel relaxed wearing necklace? Second it was quite obvious how Archer was tracking him. Last but not the least, why exchange his brand-new car for an old truck in a desert road without any other vehicle? My vote is six.

Title (Brazil): "Lost – Sem Saída" ("Lost – Without Exit")

A good enjoyable little movie.

[Boba_Fett1138 · 6/10 · 16 July 2007]

This is a nice little movie. It's nothing too fancy or big but just provide some good decent 90 minutes to enjoy.

It's a good written story. They used all of the script its potential and it provides the movie with a couple of nice and original moments, despite its unoriginal and restrained concept, budget and settings. You can also really thank the director for that, who brings everything very stylish to the screen.

Still the story has some lesser and more silly parts. Such as the way the main character is leaving a trail is unbelievable. Hard to imaging that anyone could be really that dumb and obvious in a situation like that.

It's unfortunately also a movie that begins very well and has a good middle but toward the ending it starts to loose some of its power and creativity, when the story starts to loose more and more of its credibility. A shame really.

The acting is good surprisingly and it definitely uplifts the movie and makes it feel more professional than its budget would allow it to be. Dean Cain plays a good main character and he gives away a nice performance. And hey, it also has Danny Trejo in it as the main villain. We don't too often get to see him as such but his role is also more limited down as you would perhaps expect.

Still a movie well worth seeing.

6/10

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Wow...Phone Booth in a car!

[goatyman · 7 November 2004]

This film is Phone Booth in a car. Dean Cain did a great job...and this was not an easy roll to pull off. The film started in one direction and just when I was feeling safe...it took a sharp turn down. Great job to the film makers. The film looked great. Beautiful photography. Cool desert shots. Very unexpected ending. All in all - I really liked it. I would give it an 8 on a 1-10 scale. Mainly because the film makers used good-old film making style instead of all the flash and F/Xs. Strongly recommend! Loved the in-your-face shooting style. I almost felt like I was there in the car with Dean. The more I think about it the more I get a kick out of what they did.

Watch the film a see for your self!

Really entertaining

[tjpmkp · 7/10 · 29 June 2007]

I have to say I was pleasantly surprised by this movie. Some of the dialog was a bit contrived, but so what? It was still a wild ride with unexpected moments thrown in throughout. I thought Dean Cain did a good job.

This movie is like a poor man's Duel (which I consider a compliment.) Duel, I believe was Steven Spielberg's directorial debut as this is for Darren Lempke. He has real talent. He is very good at building up suspense. I also liked the way it ended -- it wasn't a cop-out. It had good camera work and everything made sense at the end, which often does not in these types of movies. It was a fun way to spend 90 minutes. P.S. I don't have a clue as to why a reviewer thought this movie was a sci-fi picture. It bears absolutely no resemblance to one.

The greatest movie ever made about a guy driving through the desert and talking on his cell phone

[MBunge · 6/10 · 24 August 2010]

This movie is so good it almost entirely overcomes its basic weakness.

Lost tells the story of Jeremy Stanton (Dean Cain), a man who finds himself on the road from California to Nevada. Unable to take the straight and easy path to a place called Red Ridge due to storms and flooding rendering the main roads impassable, Jeremy finds himself wandering the back roads and forgotten trails with only an inaccurate map and the thoroughly unhelpful directions over his cell phone of Judy (Ashley Scott), a woman who works for this movie's version of AAA. That could very easily be the premise of a road comedy, except there's a bag of money in the trunk of Jeremy's rental car and a vicious killer named Archer (Danny Trejo) chasing after him.

You might not expect too much of a film that's just an hour and a half of Dean Cain driving around the desert and talking on a cell phone, but you'll be pleasantly surprised if you give Lost a gander. This film has many strengths and only one real flaw.

Dean Cain gives a good performance made even better by the normality of it. Jeremy Stanton is a man stuck in the desert, alone and unable to get where he needs to go, with a murderer lurking in his rear view mirror. Most actors in that sort of tale will start out chewing the scenery and end up vomiting it back at you. They'd give you a performance full of every overwrought emotion they can. Cain avoids that temptation and gives us a real Jeremy, who doesn't fall to pieces or morph into some movie cliché "man driven beyond his limits". Cain's Jeremy feels frustration and anger and anxiety but when things go wrong, he puts his head down and keeps on going like many people do in tough spots. Cain doesn't give you the performance you'd expect in this sort of film, and he's able to carry on his back almost the entire movie.

Lost is also a very quick moving story and even when Jeremy is just driving around in circles, there's something going on. But it's not repetitive and the film doesn't just jog in place waiting to unleash this "twist" or that "shock" on the audience. Flashes of Jeremy's memories play out along his travels, memories relating to the terrible situation he got himself in and to the man he is. The car radio also joins the voices on his cell phone as another character in the story, through news reports, talk show snippets and even a motivational tape that Jeremy plays to keep his spirits up. The script also deserves credit for trying to explain things to the viewer, instead of just relying on them not thinking too hard about what is happening. Many films abuse the suspension of disbelief to cover up for plot developments or characterizations that don't make any sense. Lost works fairly hard at making sure things make enough sense that you can pay attention to the story and not have to make excuses for it.

Lost does have a weakness, however, and it's a pretty big one. As fine a performance as Cain's is and as smart at the writing is, it's still not much more than an hour and a half of a guy driving through the desert and talking on his cell phone. Oh, there are moments of action and suspense and humor and I suppose the movie deserves credit for not injecting a bunch of contrived and unrealistic developments into the plot out of fear it can't hold the audience's attention. For all that though, it really is an hour and a half of a guy driving through the desert and talking on his cell phone. It held my attention, but that might not be your cup of tea.

Lost is a little gem of a movie. Not a diamond, to be sure, but it's not cubic zirconium either. It's an emerald, or maybe a sapphire. Some folks can appreciate the beauty of those stones and some folks just look at them and wonder why they aren't diamonds. But if every piece of jewelry was a diamond, think how boring that would be.

low budget

[robertkeller08 · 1/10 · 13 February 2008]

If you enjoy watching footage of someone driving around in the desert you'll love this movie. Lowest budget film I've ever seen. I could afford to make this movie and I'm currently unemployed. The plot fails for a movie script IMO. It might work as the basis for a short story which may be where it originated. The classic film starring Dennis Weaver comes to mind, the one where he is chased in his car by a lunatic truck driver. That film worked. There was constant suspense and many episodes of contact/conflict between weaver and the unknown truck driver. Lost falls flat because of the lack of interaction between the main character and the man chasing him.

Started out strong, but fell short in the end.

[monkeysontoast · 6/10 · 16 July 2006]

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, ).

Boring, boring, boring!!!

[knightfall · 1/10 · 23 August 2005]

Have I seen another movie that everybody else here has? Lost is the story of a bank manager (Dean Cain) robbing his own bank and then screwing one of his accomplices. The accomplice is chased by police cars, choppers and the media, but manages to escape (they don't bother explaining how he does that). He finds out that he was screwed and chases Dean Cain who is lost somewhere on a desert highway and can't find his way out. Helping Dean Cain finding the way is a woman he keeps calling from some kind of you-are-lost-and-we-help-you-find-your-way-agency. All of a sudden the accomplice is following him and always seems to know where Dean Cain is. Hmm, I wonder where he could get his information from, since besides Dean Cain only the woman from you-are-lost-and-we-help-you-find-your-way-agency knows where to find him. And even after she finished work she calls him from her home with some phoney excuse why she would help a bank robber.

During the movie I was actually wondering how the accomplice could keep finding Dean Cain, that the woman on the phone was helping him was way too obvious, I couldn't believe that actually was the resolution!!

Awful, awful, extremely boring and with 86 minutes running time at least 87 minutes too long!

The USA version is 4 minutes longer, but I doubt that 4 minutes could help this train-wreck of a movie...

Well made independent film with interesting camera work and editing but pretty bog-standard on the whole.

[johnnyboyz · 6/10 · 24 July 2007]

It's fun to see a raw, well shot independent film every now and again and I do, in a way, feel privileged to have seen Lost despite the certain things that I thought kept it from being a great film although kept it at being a good film. It's difficult to pinpoint the exact genre for this film as it's really just a 'road movie/thriller' and revolves around a guy on a road in a desert trying to get home to his wife and child; he's also carrying some cargo but the surprise when it is revealed exactly what the cargo is is far too enjoyable for me to say so here.

The person who wrote and directed this film, Darren Lemke, has obviously paid close attention to certain thrillers and such from the past. Jeremy Stanton (Cain) driving along and getting into all sorts of rather illegal mischief is very reminiscent of Psycho (1960) especially when you realise what it is he's carrying and who he actually is; also, the fact he's pulled over by a state trooper is either supposed to remind us of how we felt when we saw Marion Crane asleep at the wheel in a lay-by when a police car pulled up or it's supposed to create a whole new feeling of paranoia within itself despite the fact the 'twist' of what it is he's actually got in the boot isn't revealed yet.

As Stanton attempts to make his way home, little obstacles that pop up are not only a little predictable but also a little anti-climatic. Like I said, it takes a while for what it is he's carrying to be revealed so any hindrance that occurs is purely going to frustrate him without leaving us on tenterhooks; needless to say that changes later on. Although this could be seen as quite clever, Stanton's reactions to things like: running low on petrol, not being able to communicate to a petrol station attendant due to a language barrier and as mentioned, being stopped by a state trooper aren't really as desperate nor do they make us think that maybe there's more at stake than merely getting home to his family.

I don't like to gripe at independent film's writing but the script is a little weary in Lost. Stanton makes trouble for himself on more than one occasion and to me, it was rather noticeable. Anyone who's seen a road movie before will know that usually the people in the car are in some sort of trouble and have to do their very best not to make things worst for themselves: simple, just drive and drive until you're home, right? Wrong, not in some films. In Thelma and Louise (1991), they were on the run and due to good writing, they avoided trouble most of the time, in a film called The Hit (1984) one character throws a piece of clothing out the window and another says something like: "That was a bit silly – it could act against us later as some sort of clue". As a result, in Lost, when Stanton throws several things from his car I immediately thought of that scene from The Hit. Stanton also makes things worse for himself on numerous other occasions, one of which occurs when he moves his 'cargo' from one large bag to several smaller ones meaning more luggage for him.

The film uses another convention it has; an operator called Judy (Scott) to good affect as she acts as Stanton's lifeline although the twist involving her was a little unbelievable just as it was able to plan the feeling of 'It's possible for them to do this twist but I hope they don't' inside of me. Along with this, the multiple problems Stanton comes up against does create good suspense so the director has obviously thought out how he's going to make it all work from a suspenseful point of view. Going into the film, don't expect anything too fantastic but it is a well made, well shot film that uses and borrows to good effect.

Total rubbish

[marno_t · 1/10 · 2 January 2006]

This movie was the worst (and most boring) movie I've seen in a long time, and that's quite an accomplishment. It tries so hard to be a professional movie, but none of the tries actually succeed. It's sad, really..

I don't think there where any plot-twists, and if anyone had told me this was the 'bloopers-version' of the real thing, I'd believed them straight away.

Total waste of time, money and effort, but thats just my 2c..

Regards,

Marno

Lost is Anything But ...

[romwriter96 · 10/10 · 6 January 2005]

As one of the four hundred people lucky enough to be present at the premier of this movie, I can honestly say it was one of the best psychological thrillers I've seen in years. This is a breakout performance for Dean Cain who, up to this point, has had to struggle to overcome the typecasting that comes with portraying a superhero (Lois and Clark, The New Adventures of Superman, 1993-97).

Lost is, as a previous review stated, PHONE BOOTH in a car. Cain fans will be pleased to know that 99% of the movie is All-Dean, All the Time. The range of emotion the actor shows is phenomenal and adds fantastic characterization to what could easily gone the other way and been boring if not done correctly. Writer Lemke has done a great job of keeping us on the edge of our seats. If there were anything bad to be said about the movie, it might have been that it started a bit slowly. However, that's been corrected and the first five minutes retooled. When this film reaches theaters, it will be worthy of recognition in the award department.

Awful awful awful

[daggersineyes · 1/10 · 5 September 2013]

What a complete waste of time this was. Fortunately I wised up about half way through this excruciating mess and fast forwarded to the end. I don't remember skipping that much of a movie ever before (even tho I've seen some bad ones). The lead character was a horrible arrogant thoroughly unlikable idiot so why would I care what happened to him. Absolutely nothing happened in the first half, He just drove around the desert littering and being rude to people and generally making dumb decisions in the most boring nonsense I've seen since I sat and watched my gate rust. And the ending I skipped to.....and discovered the big plot twist which was utter utter rubbish!! Terrible dialogue, no character development, only one major person in the whole film talking to various people on the phone, ridiculous script and no suspense or intrigue. What is the actual point of this flick anyway?

Please don't believe the positive reviews (I don't understand where they are coming from). AVOID AVOID AVOID!!!

Any comparisons of this pile of drek to the wonderfully directed and beautifully acted Phone Booth are ridiculous and completely unfair to Phone Booth.

Perfect title

[horsegoggles · 1/10 · 16 May 2006]

"Lost" is the perfect title for this movie. "Junk" would have been a good title. "Stinko" comes to mind also. I rented this movie, not knowing what to expect, because I didn't remember ever seeing it advertised. I had always enjoyed Dean Cain as Superman, so it can't be too bad, right? The entire film has you wondering if this is a sci-fi flick or what. I still don't know if it was a scifi film. It's full of flashbacks, but you will never have a clue as to what's being flashed back to. If you enjoy watching a guy drive around in circles in the desert, doing everything you probably shouldn't do in the desert, you may like this movie.

I sincerely hope this movie was a joke...

[diddlysquat · 1/10 · 3 September 2006]

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

Solid Indie Thriller

[Bob_the_Hobo · 2 August 2011]

Slick and smarmy Jeremy Stanton (Dean Cain) is lost in the Mojave desert, surrounded by foreign wilderness and clueless as to where he is. Things are made steadily worse when the mysterious Archer (Danny Trejo) starts hunting Jeremy down. What does Archer want, and why is he chasing Jeremy?

A very solid, mysterious and engaging thriller from first-time director Darren Lemke. Direction is dead-on and the audience is consistently interested in Jeremy Stanton's plight. Writing is exceptional and photography is the same.

Lost almost being a one-man show, Dean Cain leads the film with ease. We slowly like him as he grows more and more desperate to survive. Trejo only appears fully at the end, but his presence is felt. The rest of the cast is just as good.

A solid indie thriller that I really recommend.

Guy in a car....

[janpieter-1 · 1/10 · 17 April 2006]

Awful awful awful!!! If you want to waste your evening I highly recommend this movie.. It made wonder about the stupidity of a master-mind criminal spreading waste around, leaving maps containing his route information written on it, and worst of all: trusting a person without any reason but a sickening ending to this movie. The goofs in the movie are hard to ignore while being all around and in your face.. The car the guy drove in broke down because there wasn't enough cooling liquid in it, then he goes and sit behind a billboard the badguy pisses against while not noticing superman, and voilá: his car is fixed! Every attempt in the movie to let it be 'arty' or anything where just too obvious and annoying, the road aid parts between the scenes.. yuk.. I was a hardcore Superman fan when I was young, but this just made me want to rip my teeth out of my mouth. I watched this with 6 friends, of which 4 made it till the end without falling asleep, and those 4 remaining agreed to this being crap. And yes, that is a plot spoiler.... DON'T EVEN THINK ABOUT SEEING THIS!!!!

Seen at a film festival. Worth a look!

[HELAINNA · 8/10 · 1 July 2005]

Although Dean Cain was not among the candidates for the lead, he is the perfect lead for the role! His performance is multi-layered and intense.

The villain, played by a favorite villain actor, is well written and well acted. The premise of the movie does keep you guessing, and the surprise ending is, well, a surprise.

Refreshing, considering the studio product these days. No market research garbage here! (Sorry, suits!)

The director takes some chances that really pay off, and for an indie, it comes across very well done and satisfying!

The movie is, overall, quite well made for a first-time director. See it if you can!

A lot of driving specially when going nowhere.

[vmarthirial · 4/10 · 22 March 2006]

A snapshot of one day, perhaps the last day in the life of the main character, Lost is the story of a young banker that finds himself trying to escape the desert's unnamed roads and reach his highly needed destination in time. Of course, having to go from point A to point B through the arid land has a slightly more illicit goal than just sight-seeing Nevada, and early in the movie we see why this is the case and who and how he got involved in that adventure.

If nothing else, setting the movie the first 30 minutes does help to expect more from this adventure, and we are even willing to forgo or "understand" why from now on every other close-up frame of Mr. Stanton (Dean Cain) is him talking on the cell phone and driving. I have seen other comments here comparing the movie to Phonebooth (2002) which I find irresponsible and ill-dignifying of the later, unless is all right to compare movies by the simplest coincidence, in the case here, that two males are talking on telephones.

But beyond that, this is nothing but the Saturday morning cable-TV filler film that demands nothing from you and takes you as co-pilot with the hero (anti-hero? not so) seeing here, seeing there for so long, that its outcome is more than expected, even though you wished all along something else could have happened.

I must agree with other comments calling it boring, but what troubled me more was all the missed opportunities to go one step deeper and reveal, in parallel with the allegory of being lost in the desert, the inner struggle of the character for his actions, to whom he is impacting and how to deal with the results. The chances where there, but they were always "Lost".

desperate man, foolish plan

[rboy8 · 2/10 · 4 January 2010]

i really wanted to enjoy this movie. it started out with a nice premise and as it unspooled, it just ended up a bungled mess of celluloid on the floor. when i found out the lead was actually involved in a bank heist, i became very interested until the actual robbery was revealed. that is what took all of the air out of this tire. what was the lead really thinking? he helps criminals rob a bank that he works at and attempts to take half the money instead of the agreed upon 5%. his plan is that he will disappear while the bad guys get caught. what?????? first of all, if they are apprehended, don't you think that they would be happy to implicate this idiot to gain revenge? and what was this lead truly thinking? the minute the robbery is committed, he and his fellow employee vanish with the loot. oh yeah. he's gonna take a plane to somewhere and will never get caught. just move to a secret place with his photo and description plastered all over the media. with a wife and kid in tow. yeah. right. sorry......i know the guy was in over his head financially, but that does not mean he could pull off something so thin and flimsy. plus on top of everything else he never thought to have several escape routes just in case so he gets........lost. wonderful, i guess there would have been no story if he had actually used his head. bah

a few holes here

[bobbyhonea · 5/10 · 3 April 2006]

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.

No big loss if you haven't seen it

[Seth_Rogue_One · 5/10 · 28 March 2016]

Lost (2004) had the misfortune of being named the exact same thing as one of the most popular TV-series of all times that started the same year and most likely got lost (pardon the pun) in all the commotion over THAT 'Lost'.

Not that they by any means are anything similar beyond the title.

No, if I was to compare it with something it would probably be 'LOCKE (2013)' (which funnily enough is one of the more popular characters names in the series, but that's beyond the point lol).

Anyway so yeah the reason I compare those is because more-part of the duration is the main character by himself in a car (mostly inside or always very close to it) and also taking a bunch of calls.

But where as 'LOCKE (2013)' had Tom Hardy to mantle a one man show, 'LOST (2004)' has Dean Cain.

Now don't get me wrong, I like Dean Cain a lot (he's my favorite Superman in fact) but he's no Tom Hardy and can't quite carry the movie all by himself on his back (extremely few people could, so again this is nothing too negative towards him).

Also the plot is way too predictable.

It's not a awful movie and kudos on trying something different but it just doesn't quite work as the suspenseful thriller it's supposed to be.

If you're curious about Danny Trejo's involvement, he is 'in it' quite a bit BUT mainly as one of the voices Dean Cain talks to on a mobilephone.

Entertaining low-budget nonsense

[Sandcooler · 8/10 · 4 July 2009]

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.

Lost? Lame!

[Jimgaddis · 1/10 · 3 July 2011]

I just rented "Lost" from iTunes for $.99. Can I have my 99 cents and 90 minutes back? Yes it's "Phonebooth" + "Duel" + a few other bad movies I can't put my finger on right now. And CHEAP! Looks likely was shot in two days for about $1000.

Voiceovers by Danny Trejo and somebody (my guess is the writer of this travesty) doing ALL of the other voices ( radio & TV voiceovers, "audio guru", even the VERY bad hysterical Mexican woman) Ludicrous writing. NO production values. NO character development. NO suspense.

Also, there aren't that many roads in the entire state of Nevada! And the ridiculous road and place names sounded like the writer was sitting in his apartment in Santa Barbera ( where the story starts) and just picked random cul-de-sac names from his posh housing development! C'mon, guy! Do a LITTLE research before you kill an entire weekend banging out a script! At least pretend to strive for a teeny bit of authenticity!

I won't say I'm disappointed because this is just the kind of crap I would expect to see Dean Cain in.

Redundant, boring movie

[spiker55-1 · 1/10 · 1 August 2009]

This film has been given way too much credit from the other posters. For me, the film had no redeeming qualities whatsoever. Lost is one of the worst films that I have ever watched. The dialogue is trite and sophomoric even cheesy at times. The same lines are repeated so many times, you start to tune it out. The use of profanity to make Lost look serious just served to make it look more ridiculous and redundant.It baffles me why a talented actor such as Dean Cain subjected himself to it. This was not a good role for him and he did not seem like he was into his character one bit. I wish that I could get my time back that I WASTED watching it. This is the type of movie that half way through viewing you want to turn it off but part of you says that it might get better but it never does. The plot is not consistent. This is a film that I could not recommend to anyone.