The Lost Samaritan (2009)

Highly Overrated But Still Good

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.

It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

I have just finished watching this movie on TV and I hurried here to say how impressed I am by the superb craftsmanship behind it. This is not your average crime movie and I'm absolutely stunned to read the fiercely negative reviews by other posters. Didn't they notice the talented cast, the original touch of the creators and, most of all, the movie's emphasis on the power of coincidence?Yes, there are many coincidences in this movie. As a matter of fact, as far as I'm concerned, it shows how a long string of unfortunate coincidences can move your life forward and determine your fate. As someone who has observed this aspect of life for a long time, I am beyond delighted to see how the authors of the movie, the person who conceived and wrote the script, are drawing attention to this as coincidence is something most people fail to notice. Is this why most posters on this page failed to see what is plain to me?I guess they expected to see a plot that nobody has ever seen before. That's understandable but not everything that can make a movie great. Sometimes the beauty is in the details or in the way they fall and meet together. This is one of those rare movies for me. Please note that I haven't said a thing about the plot because I don't want to spoil it for you and get banned from IMDb - you have all the power to see it and decide for yourself and disagree with me if you wish, for that's your right. I just want to attract your attention to what I think is its defining feature.I also believe that the story is very logical, indeed. Perhaps it is because, having seen how life has been a chain of coincidences for many people around, this movie appears entirely realistic to me. Beyond realistic, in fact. Others could call it "contrived" for the same reason but I would and will not. It just takes a pair of eyes and a bit of experience in the movie's direction to fully accept and agree with its viewpoint.Thank you for listening and I wish a pleasant viewing to anyone who will brave the negative reviews.

I got this movie @ one of the HAJI stores here I IRAQ. They use the comments from IMDb to describe the video. So they used the comment "This film is by far the worst I have ever seen.", it was as good as sold. No yes this is a bad film, it's about 10 years too late. But its low-grade budget. the worst film are the ones high-budget good cast but just trivial drivel and bull-crap dialog.There's a scene in which the hero escapes from the bad guys. The bad guys look at his license plate and hunt him down. The problem is the license plate is obviously European. Hpowever a few scenes later the bad guys identify themselves as FBI agents (to the local American police department). Now this isn't the BOURNE identity so why are American Law Enforcement chasing this guy in a foreign country unless they're supposed to be in America. Yes it's a foreign production of Actors trying to do a cheesy American film. Here this guy is schlep, wife's cheating on him, bad at his job. the only joy he has in his life is this beautiful waitress at the local diner who obviously has a crush on him. He see's something at work he wasn't supposed to, and the hunt is on to kill him. (I.E. Pelican Brief, The FIRM, etc. etc.)No exotic locations or thrilling car chases but a movie just the same.To say the movie was telegraphing scenes is a disgrace to the fast moving telegraph. A far more accurate description was they were boxed, addressed then sat in the back of the mini-van for a month, before someone finally mailed them.

The beginning of this movie is quite OK,The main actor is by far the best actor in the hole movie as he is having a really bad night in the movie whats unfold in an even more worse nightmare like evening.But then the bad guys and other people are getting involved.. then the movie is going downwards really hard.(not to mention the weird accents and the weird face a certain women is making trough the film)The acting is getting bad and the plot is getting no where at all.The overall action is more like talking bullshit then shooting. (next time just shoot and get it over with?)and the END doesn't make any sense at all. Overall opinion of the film: The build up of the movie is OK the rest is downright an failure.give it a 3 for trying.Don't say i warned you!.Grtz TJ

The production of the movie was so unbelievably bad that by the end of the movie I knew what was going to happen next.They could have done such a better job by removing some of the dialog. The concept could have worked if the writing was not so bad. Who where these guys? Why where they killing these people? Why would Ian an Ruta be told to run at the end when everything was cleaned up. So many things did not make any sense.Acting for the most part was believable by Ian, Ruta, and Oliver. BUT OMFG where did they dig up the rest of the cast. Three FBI agents with euro trash accents, kept me from getting into the story and thinking more about where it is suppose to be taking place.Was this suppose to the US or Europe. American made cars with Euro style plates and roads.