The Lost Room

Almost a typical King movie that paradoxically has nothing whatsoever to do with Stephen King. An awesome idea with great potential about a motel room where something happened and ordinary things in it that you use everyday gain “weird" powers. From absolutely unusable ones, through humorous ones, to highly useful ones... This three-part miniseries has just three points that drain its credit. One of them is fundamental for the resulting quality. Firstly, the story is rather fragmented in the first half. Secondly, despite it being full of original ideas, much, really so much more could have been got out of this theme. And thirdly the production design looks exceedingly poor, which is rather surprising at a time when so many series look like movies. But these blemishes on its beauty are made up for by good actors, a perfect screenplay, the unarguable interest value of the topic and, last but not least, a great soundtrack. (26/07/2007)

Key, eye, comb, ticket, and plenty of other items that will change your life, plenty of scoundrels who would want them for themselves, and in the midst of it all, one very likable detective who unwittingly becomes the main driver of the plot. And let me tell you, this journey is definitely worth it. Those four and a half hours fly by very quickly, the plot only pauses sporadically and out of necessity for explanations, and everything races towards an inevitable finish. It races so fast that in the end, even the long duration is desperately insufficient. When, twenty minutes before the end, I was still being given new information about the world of objects, it was clear to me that not everything would be explained. And that is especially a shame in this case. With some minor adjustments, a truly brilliant regular series could have emerged from this. As it is, the story remains reminiscent of the opening book of some massive epic saga. 85% (30/08/2008)

The Key and the Clock: After watching the first episode, I’m curious to see how things pan out. An ingenious topic, stealing slightly from King’s saga “Dark Tower" - specifically “The Drawing of the Three", is richly embellished with great ideas and inclusion of regular (and unusual) objects in the story. The tempo is a little slow, but bearable, I’m certainly curious about what comes next. I would like to thank UPC for increasing their range of channels to include AXN (that’s how I came across Lost Room). Keep up the good work :-). The Comb and the Box: Well, episode 2 is twice as good. It has much greater momentum and the objects are more intriguing. Peter Krause gives a very good performance, coming across much better than in episode one. You can almost cut the mysterious atmosphere and everything around room no. 9 is breathtaking. And the ending... wow. Who is that guy? :-) The Eye and the Prime Object: The last episode is definitely the best. The search for the prime object is coming to a close, but does such an object even exist? Will the search ever end? The ending certainly doesn’t tie up all the loose ends, although for a mini series it was very satisfying. The Lost Room left the door open for a continuation and I willingly admit that I would welcome one. (25/03/2007)