Review of The Lost (2006) by Jacob O — 18 Aug 2008

A good film, but by no means fantastic. I was definitely not as impressed by the film as a whole than I was by the awesomeness of the trailer. There are some fantastic performances courtesy of Marc Senter and Robin Sydney... but everyone else seems a tad lackluster and boring. I loved the weird 1950s/1960s feel of the film and it had a twisted storyline to boot, but I still felt like something was missing. The movie also dragged on too much, as though they were trying to film the book chapter by chapter. If they had condensed the story a bit more, the film wouldn't have dragged on so much in the middle portion.

Senter is incredibly gorgeous, I can barely take my eyes off him. He has such command over the cameras and he makes for such a likable sociopath. Sydney is great too, but it's her rocking tits that overshadow her acting abilities. I can't wait to see both of them tear it up in "Wicked Lake".

The music was perfect, the amount of gore was adequate, and the ending will definitely stick with you for awhile. A good job, but I was slightly underwhelmed and not as overly impressed as I thought I would be.