The Lost Room (2006)

The biggest problem with this movie is it’s a little better than you think it might be, which somehow makes it worse. As in, it takes itself a bit too seriously, which makes most of the movie feel kind of dull.

Excellent characters with emotional depth. My wife, daughter and granddaughter all enjoyed it...and me, too! Very good movie! You won't be disappointed.

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

I just watched this show today, and I watched all of the episodes in a row! I couldn't pull myself away from it! It was amazing! The first great sci-fI show I've seen in a while. Please renew this show for season 2! Add new charcacters, and bring back a few of the old ones. It will be awesome. And with the rise of SCP Containment Breach fans, this show will become an instant hit. (Scp is a fictional organization that captures and contains anomalous objects. It has its own wiki with over 3,000 anomalous objects.) The objects in this show are just like SCP objects, which is awesome! So please bring this show back! Thanks for reading! Great show!

Once again I apologize to the reader and to the IMDb people for trying to give a rating higher than 10, but this is some of the finest television efforts ever. Before doing this review, I reviewed several lists of "excellent" mini series. An incredibly high percentage were period pieces, drenched in pompous accents; or simply drenched in pompous accents with no special time frame or period. In other words, to do a mini-series based on a sci-fi theme AND DO IT RIGHT without relying on aliens, ghosts, ghouls, robots or some other monster is an almost impossible feat and this crew (which included revolving directors and writers) nailed it out of the box. Other reviewers have covered the plot, or at least tried to, because this one has so many twists and turns that it makes the Matrix look like it should be introduced by Kermit. Let me say that I originally missed the first episode but caught the rest in proper sequence. I was so gob-smacked by what I saw that I waited until our our local station reran the entire series in the summer, and watched the whole thing again, beginning to end, and enjoyed it even more. Acting first-rate. Especially nice seeing Julianna Margulies shortly after she disappeared from a prominent medical series. Kevin Pollak steals all his scenes, normally a comic, he plays a baddie and does a great job. Early Elle Fanning makes this a treat for film buffs. Look, this is not my usual review style, but if there was a 20 rating available I would give this the higher number. There are still bits of the story that haunt me and I would happily see it a third or fourth time.

You may recognize (if you are an ancient computer nerd like me - or you like computer game trivia) the first line of one of the first computer text "adventure" games (technically called "Colossal Cave Adventure" http://jerz.setonhill.edu/if/canon/Adventure.htm ). I found this mini-series a bit like one of those games, where the protagonist Joe Miller discovers the "magical" properties of objects and novel ways to use them partly by trial and error (getting slammed from the sky in Gallup NM a bunch of times) or by his own cleverness. I appreciated the fact that this series was more cerebral than a lot of the shoot-em-up scifi genre ("space opera" based).Unlike some other reviews I thought this series was perfectly written, executed, and wrapped-up - with Joe's story basically finished, but the "door left open" (literally) for future story-lines.Another great thing about this series concept, like Stargate or others, is that the premise allows for the story to wander into many wild new environs and circumstances since the objects are so varied in type and usage. So writing opportunities for this series are endless - and I hope we have not seen the end.I might have liked to see more of the various "Cabals" and their philosophies and rituals explored - as that seems to mostly have occurred in the blog-o-sphere.SciFy - bring back "The Lost Room" !!

so here I am watching and loving this mini-series, and what happens at the end? I don't know! It doesn't end. There is no resolution. No "coming together." No real questions answered. No meaning of the legion and "Rube." I am so frustrated with the mini series. SciFi owes the viewing public an explanation and an apology. This was a great premise-fun to watch and totally absorbing. I couldn't get enough until the lousy ending. And, when Kevin Pollack changes eyes, where is all the blood? Where was Anna? Why did the legion not fight back when Joe was in the vault? How did John Doe end up an object? Why was room "9" an evil room? So many questions unanswered and left out reason.