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Mixed or average reviews- based on 16 Ratings

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 19
  2. Negative: 3 out of 19
  1. A wild ride through nonstop visual effects yet a warm wallow in the cinema of the dumbed-down.
  2. Director Stephen Hopkins (Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child) and writer Akiva Goldsman (Batman and Robin) layer a ridiculous time-travel tale with the story of a dysfunctional family Robinson, impressive special effects, and IKEA does Star Wars production design.
  3. Reviewed by: Darren Bignell
    60
    Though there's an obvious, admirable effort to supply character development and plot twists, the set-work and special effects - both stylish and stunning - tend to dominate.
  4. 38
    It's got cheesy special effects, a muddy visual look, and characters who say obvious things in obvious ways.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 4
  2. Negative: 1 out of 4
  1. 6
    I'll be honest when I say I actually liked this movie. I know it gets allot of bad reviews from allot of people, and I understand and agree their opinions. But, I enjoyed at and found it entertaining. As long as you don't take it too seriously and enjoy it for what it is then it can be fun. Overall: It's a crap movie, but I still enjoyed regardless of all its flaws. Expand
  2. I saw this when I was 14 or 15 so my review definitely doesn't have a lot of credibility. I liked the movie enough to watch it a few times, but I do remember most of it being cheesy and predictable. Although to give it more credit, the original was extremely cheesy, what would you expect from a 50s show? I felt the story needed to be more centered around one issue, but it felt random. But perhaps it was doomed from the start. The main premise is that they are lost in space and they have lots of adventures. So, perhaps this should have been a show and not a movie. This film is decent, that is the best way to describe it. Gary Oldman is wonderful as usual, great character. Expand
  3. It's hard to know where to start with this mess of a movie when almost everything is so horribly wrong. The writing is absolutely appalling ("Within these eggsacks lives a monster race of spiders!"), the direction is non-existent, the plot flails around at random, and the effects are incredibly dated. However, most of all, what truly makes Lost in Space a wretched experience, is the cast. Oftentimes the robot (simply named 'Robot') has more emotional depth than the human characters. William Hurt and Matt LeBlanc put on embarrassingly awful performances, and being the two male leads, this is unforgivable. Lines are just lackadaisically read in standard middle-shots no matter the scenario. Gary Oldman brings his usual A-grade ham, and Jared Harris uses a bizarre cartoon-character like speech pattern for his role. The film is not offensively bad, but most certainly is not worth the two-hours of its running time. Expand

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