Title: The Lost Room
Stars: Peter Krause,
Julianna Margulies, Kevin Pollak, Elle Fanning, Chris Bauer, Roget Bart, Peter
Jacobson, Denis Christopher, April Grace, and Ewen Bremner
Writers: Laura Harkom,
Christopher Leone, and Pal Workman
Directors: Craig R. Baxley
and Michael W. Watkins
Executive Producer: Richard
Hatem
Running Time: 360 minutes
Media: SCI FI Channel
Oiriginal Miniseries (NTSC DVD Screener)
Premiere: Part One - Monday,
December 11, 2006, at 9pm (ET)
Premiere: Part Two –
Tuesday, December 12, 2006, at 9pm (ET)
Premiere: Part Three –
Wednesday, December 13, 2006, at 9pm (ET)
Network: SCI FI Channel
(Check your local cable/satellite listings for channel)
TV Rating: Not Available At
The Time Of Review
Reviewer: Mark A. Rivera
The story goes according to
the SCI FI Channel’s press site, in the 1960s, there still were hundreds of
motels with thousands of rooms along Route 66 as it twisted its way from Chicago
to L.A. and back. None of them stood out from the rest until one day when some
unknown event at the Sunshine Motel transformed ordinary things into items of
wonder.
Room 10 of the Sunshine
Motel and many of its mundane contents — a pair of scissors, a comb and so on
— gained unique and inexplicable properties on that day, transforming them
from ordinary objects into indestructible Objects.
The Scissors can turn and
rotate any item in three dimensions. The Comb stops time for 10 seconds when you
run it through your hair. The Eyeglasses inhibit all combustion in a 20-foot
radius. The Room itself is an unchanging haven and a portal to any destination.
But it can also take that which you value more than your own life.
To possess an Object is to
possess its power.
For decades, maybe since
the first moment that the Motel Room was ripped from this reality, cabals have
formed to collect all the Objects. As always, some just want unlimited power,
and they believe getting all of the Objects will give them that. Others want to
prevent anyone from ever again using the Objects.
And though their motives
vary, the cabals' tactics are similar. It's said that while you have one of the
Objects, you have no friends, only people waiting for an opening.
The Lost Room
is an intriguing mystery with bizarre implications that even suggest the objects
may have some connection to God. Unfortunately at the time of this writing, I
have only seen the first two parts. I am hoping to review the third part before
the program airs, but if this does not come to pass I must say that from what I
saw, I really wanted to know the answers to the mystery and found The Lost
Room to be far more engrossing and entertaining than I was expecting. Every
December SCI FI Channel gives its fans a new miniseries to enjoy. Some are
better than others, but all have been quality productions and The Lost Room
is no different. Some aspects area bit cliché, but the mystery and the lead
role with Peter Krause as a Detective whose focus shifts from finding the truth
behind the mystery to finding his daughter who was kidnapped and literally
misplaced within the lost room 10. A motel room that occupies another dimension
in time and space and whose secret may better be left undiscovered… The
miniseries was produced by Lionsgate television and features supporting roles
from Julianna Margulies, Kevin Pollak, Elle Fanning, Chris Bauer and a humorous
character turn by Ewen Bremner.
I am thoroughly hooked now
and I can’t wait to find out how it all ends. The Lost Room will air on
December 11, 12, and 13 of 2006 at 9pm (ET) only on SCI FI.
© Copyright 2006 By Mark
A. Rivera
All Rights Reserved.