ChikPapa Very disappointed :(

VeteranLight I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.

Aubrey Hackett While it is a pity that the story wasn't told with more visual finesse, this is trivial compared to our real-world problems. It takes a good movie to put that into perspective.

Griff Lees Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

sclafunk First of all, the lead, Peter Krause is great. I'm a huge "Six Feet Under" fan, but that's neither here nor there. Julianna Margulies, who I would never expect to see in something this esoteric and weird, it's also very good as the supporting actress. They simply need more tv like this, even tho it's a decade plus old at the time of this review, it still holds up. If you enjoy solid sci fi parallel reality/dimension world building and mind bending metaphysical mystery, this is definitely for you. I know that is not everyone's cup of tea, however if it is this is MUST SEE for any science fiction fan whether you're more on the casual side or the deeper viewer. This is truly one of the best mini series I've ever watched. There's not much else to say and it's pointless to talk about the plot, honestly I would recommend going in knowing as absolute little as humanly possible. I was fortunate enough to do that and I was absolutely enthralled from beginning to end. Just bring an open mind and prepare to have it blown. Everything from the pacing(which I find to be a hugely under rated film/tv attribute, especially in a mini series) to the cinematography is damn near impeccable. My only complaint about this show is that there wasn't a sequel! 10/10 would watch again.....and again and again and again. This makes me wanna see Peter Krause docmore sci fi!! Now having said all that, realize that this is not The Godfather, and makes no attempt to be anything more than what it is. Don't go in looking to pick it apart from a siskel and ebert kinda romp. Anything can be dissected that way, and it kinda defeats the purpose of losing ourselves in film.

lemon_magic Well, this mini-series apparently vanished into obscurity after its initial showing. That's a shame, because there was a lot to like and admire about it.I recently got to see the whole mini-series on DVD, and I thought it was very well done, with hardly a false note or bad performance in the whole show. I especially liked Peter Krause as the protagonist - without being too aggressive or mopey or "emo", he managed to combine believable toughness and humanity in his portrayal of "Joe Miller", and had me rooting for him from the beginning.The plot, which shared elements of "The Twilight Zone", "Warehouse 13" (which actually came later, I think) and "Friday the 13th - The Series"), is all about a quest for the Philosopher's Stone, but is fairly bleak about what actually happens to human beings when they encounter the "Uncanny" in real life, and I like that a lot. (Its seeming successor, "Warehouse 13" is considerably more cheerful and optimistic in feel.) Six episode was just about the right length, since it left me wanting more. (And there were enough dangling plot threads and a stinger ending, that implied the creators were interested in continuing the story if there was a demand for it.) So: "The Lost Room" will probably not change your life. But I'll bet you'll enjoy it a lot and will remember it long after similar Sci-Fi series have vanished from your ken.

diotis Don't get me wrong. The series was a great ride. It started great, just like other series do (e.g. Lost, Fringe) and just like them, opened up a number of possibilities. But alas -unfortunately- just like them, it had such a disappointing ending! So many answers remained unexplained.The story begins with a mystery room, a motel's room number 10, that can only be accessed via a special key. There's a hunt for this key and the room's objects which all have magical properties. So the hunt continues for 5 great episodes. And then you got the ending. Spoilers follow: Who was this character in the room? Why was he "chosen" to be another "object"? Why should he die? Why didn't the main character remain in the room as the future "object"? What was this room? How did it all start? What happened to the Order and the Legion who were seeking the objects? These are a few of the questions that remain unanswered, leaving the viewer dissatisfied and -quite frankly- angry with the show. Just like I said, a great ride, with a horrific (not in a fun way) destination.

Fabio Baldan This review has heavy spoilers for the whole story. Do not read if you haven't seen the whole show.I really liked the original concept behind this show. A room where "something happened" that created objects with different supernatural uses was great and for the most part I liked how the story was told, with the main character wanting to get his daughter back and the whole factions and groups that formed around the objects.But sadly it ended up being yet another example of writers that came up with a great idea but had no idea how to end it and how to give a logical answer to all the interesting mysteries they came up with. By the end most of it doesn't make sense anymore and the answer to most of the big mysteries ends up being "because the writers say so".One of the biggest mysteries of the whole show is what happened in the room, and I'm sure I'm not the only one who was intrigued with this and was expecting an answer. And when the times came for the big reveal the dialog went something like:"Did you create the objects? What happened in this room?" "No I didn't create them. It just happened".Turns out the writers had no idea how to finish their own story so they just went with "it just happened". And that's far from being the only question left unanswered, by the final chapter there are a ton of events that are never really explained. - Why would recreating the experiments of the collectors revive people? - What was the logic behind the daughter of the main character being trapped in "one of many rooms? - How did the main character recover his daughter by becoming an object? - ETCA part of me feels this show was left unfinished. A lot of the events from the final episode pointed towards a second seasons that never got released