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A Masterpiece!

The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

I wanted to like it more than I actually did... But much of the humor totally escaped me and I walked out only mildly impressed.

***SPOILERS*** Using a cell phone as a prop like a phone booth was used it the movie "Phonebooth" two years earlier but without the same success the film "Lost" has bank vice president Jeremy Stanton, Dean Cain,mastermind the ripping off his bank, Fidelity Savings, and making off with some six million dollars in cold cash. What happens alter is too nuts to figure out with one of his co-bank robbers Ed Archer, Danny Trejo, a full blooded Cherokee Indian stalking him throughout the entire film for reasons never fully explained in the script.What's so unusual about the movie is Stanton's cell-phone that never runs out of power and can seem to pick up phone signals anywhere on earth even in the wide open and empty spaces of the Nevada Desert! During Stanton's entire time on the run, that last more then 12 hours,in the movie and being on his cell-phone non-stop he never charged the phone up once with its reception as strong at the end as it was in the beginning of the movie! ***SPOILERS*** There's also the strong and silent, and somewhat lobotomized, type state trooper, Paul Green, who's constantly chasing Stanton's car who seems to be obsessed in keeping America, or it's roads & highways, beautiful who ends up , for what seems to be no reason at all, killed by the criminally psychotic Archer. The person who guides Stanton's through this mess is telephone operator Judy, Ashley Scott,who for some strange reason takes an interest in him, maybe it was his sexy voice, and the situation he finds himself in. It's at the very end of the movie we, as well as Stanton, find out just what that reason really is. And it isn't love or phone talk at first sight either!

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.

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.

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