Let's be realistic.

an ambitious but ultimately ineffective debut endeavor.

The movie runs out of plot and jokes well before the end of a two-hour running time, long for a light comedy.

If you're interested in the topic at hand, you should just watch it and judge yourself because the reviews have gone very biased by people that didn't even watch it and just hate (or love) the creator. I liked it, it was well written, narrated, and directed and it was about a topic that interests me.

If you enjoy watching footage of someone driving around in the desert you'll love this movie. Lowest budget film I've ever seen. I could afford to make this movie and I'm currently unemployed. The plot fails for a movie script IMO. It might work as the basis for a short story which may be where it originated. The classic film starring Dennis Weaver comes to mind, the one where he is chased in his car by a lunatic truck driver. That film worked. There was constant suspense and many episodes of contact/conflict between weaver and the unknown truck driver. Lost falls flat because of the lack of interaction between the main character and the man chasing him.

This film is a low budget wonder! It may not have had the budget to pursue its potential 100% but it is fantastic and definitely better than most large studio productions."Lost" is a film spawned from the fundamental and most crucial aspects of film-making: good acting and good writing. Most big-budget Hollywood films rely heavily upon the star system (the popularity and "pull-power" of its cast)and upon multi-million dollar advertising campaigns. "Lost" relies on neither of these superficial aspects, and is a far better film for it. Using but a select few actors, the film carries a story that is both entertaining and enthralling. The end was an unexpected surprise and the movie, in its entirety, introduced and explored several moral themes which provided a lot of food for thought. The main character, played by Dean Cain, was the type of person that we could all relate to and his actions in the film were VERY pertinent to anyone and everyone watching the film. All of these factors made the film quite enjoyable.Like I said in the very beginning, the one and ONLY aspect lacking in this film was a larger budget. But regardless of that detail, the film's impressive script and great acting performances made it thoroughly entertaining!

"Lost" is the perfect title for this movie. "Junk" would have been a good title. "Stinko" comes to mind also. I rented this movie, not knowing what to expect, because I didn't remember ever seeing it advertised. I had always enjoyed Dean Cain as Superman, so it can't be too bad, right? The entire film has you wondering if this is a sci-fi flick or what. I still don't know if it was a scifi film. It's full of flashbacks, but you will never have a clue as to what's being flashed back to. If you enjoy watching a guy drive around in circles in the desert, doing everything you probably shouldn't do in the desert, you may like this movie.

A snapshot of one day, perhaps the last day in the life of the main character, Lost is the story of a young banker that finds himself trying to escape the desert's unnamed roads and reach his highly needed destination in time. Of course, having to go from point A to point B through the arid land has a slightly more illicit goal than just sight-seeing Nevada, and early in the movie we see why this is the case and who and how he got involved in that adventure.If nothing else, setting the movie the first 30 minutes does help to expect more from this adventure, and we are even willing to forgo or "understand" why from now on every other close-up frame of Mr. Stanton (Dean Cain) is him talking on the cell phone and driving. I have seen other comments here comparing the movie to Phonebooth (2002) which I find irresponsible and ill-dignifying of the later, unless is all right to compare movies by the simplest coincidence, in the case here, that two males are talking on telephones.But beyond that, this is nothing but the Saturday morning cable-TV filler film that demands nothing from you and takes you as co-pilot with the hero (anti-hero? not so) seeing here, seeing there for so long, that its outcome is more than expected, even though you wished all along something else could have happened.I must agree with other comments calling it boring, but what troubled me more was all the missed opportunities to go one step deeper and reveal, in parallel with the allegory of being lost in the desert, the inner struggle of the character for his actions, to whom he is impacting and how to deal with the results. The chances where there, but they were always "Lost".