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Lost in Space

1998

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Mixed or average reviews based on 19 Critic Reviews

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Generally favorable reviews based on 72 Ratings

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Movie Details & Credits

New Line Cinema | Release Date: April 3, 1998 | PG-13

Starring: Gary Oldman, Matt LeBlanc, William Hurt

Summary: TV's Robinson family takes a galactic wrong turn with state-of-the-art visuals and effects. (New Line Cinema)

Director: Stephen Hopkins

Genre(s): Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller

Rating: PG-13

Runtime: 130 min

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Metascore

Critic Reviews

75

San Francisco Chronicle

Peter Stack

A wild ride through nonstop visual effects yet a warm wallow in the cinema of the dumbed-down. Read full review

63

The Globe and Mail (Toronto)

Ellen Vanstone

This good movie could have been great if writer Akiva Goldsman had been able to -- or been permitted to -- dump the boundaries of the TV source altogether. Read full review

60

Empire Darren Bignell

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. Read full review

50

San Francisco Examiner

Walter Addiego

The picture is a relentless blast of color and movement that's based on the old TV show, but boils down to a supercharged version of old-time Saturday-afternoon movie serials. Read full review

50

Variety

Dennis Harvey

A pic that provides one hour's decent, eye-filling ride, then crashes and burns amid some of the worst writing since ... well, since scenarist/co-producer Akiva Goldsman's last effort, "Batman & Robin." Read full review

50

Film Threat

Tom Meek

About the only thing that is lucid, in the malestrom of wham-bam effects, is the set-up for a sequel. Read full review

10

The A.V. Club

John Krewson

Dream up a plot incorporating time travel, genetic mutation, cyberjargon, and saving the Earth -- all the worst and most boring elements of science fiction. Finally, type up a list of bad jokes, space-talk, and semi-tough tag lines; label it "script." Read full review

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Enderman

Jan 17, 2017

A very great Sci-Fi movie ! Good for the whole family, good story, 2h, 10m long. It's not the best film ever made but would deserve to be more known.....

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ThisIsSparta666

Nov 27, 2016

A very good Si-Fi movie ! Good for the all family, good story, just a little long. It's not the best film ever made but would deserve to be more known

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Tiber5

Nov 23, 2016

This good movie could have been great if writer Akiva Goldsman had been able to -- or been permitted to -- dump the boundaries of the TV source altogether.

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Pama300

Dec 10, 2016

A very good Sci-Fi movie ! Good for the whole family, good story, 2h, 10m long. It's not the best film ever made but would deserve to be more known.....

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TiberCromwell50

Nov 23, 2016

A very good Si-Fi movie ! Good for the all family, good story, just a little long. It's not the best film ever made but would deserve to be more known

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SimpsonFans

Nov 20, 2016

This good movie could have been great if writer Akiva Goldsman had been able to -- or been permitted to -- dump the boundaries of the TV source altogether.

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than_Q

Aug 28, 2016

This movie is purely indescribable, everything about it is so horribly bad that I don't even know how much detail I can go into on this movie, I've only watched 4 minutes of the monstrosity and it's a steaming pile of **** Let me get this straight, this is the worst movie I've ever seen inThis movie is purely indescribable, everything about it is so horribly bad that I don't even know how much detail I can go into on this movie, I've only watched 4 minutes of the monstrosity and it's a steaming pile of **** Let me get this straight, this is the worst movie I've ever seen in my 16 years of existence, this is the worst movie I have seen in my LIFE. I was just casually scrolling through the channels on Sunday night, bored out of my mind, when suddenly, Lost in Space shows up, and I start watching it and then I turn off the TV, grab a cloth, wrap it around my hand, and smash the living **** out of it, then I pour kerosene onto the TV, go outside, start my car, reverse my car, accelerate, crash, crawl out from the rubble of my house, throw a lit match onto the kerosene, and then my soul is purged from the disgrace that is Lost in Space.

There really is nothing to redeemable about this whole movie, the characters suck, the CGI sucks, the story sucks, the acting sucks (looking at you, Matt Le Blanc), EVERYTHING SUCKS. Let me say that Saving Private Ryan was released in the same year, Armageddon was released in the same year, the Rugrats Movie was released in the same year, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas was released in the same year, Men in Black and Batman & Robin were released a year before this piece of **** AND EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THESE MOVIES WERE BETTER (well, not Batman & Robin, that was REALLY bad).

I would have given this movie a 10 if it had been classified as a comedy movie, because this thing is literally laughably bad, I was just giggling through all 4 minutes of this horrible movie, everything is just so pathetically bad, I really don't want to see or hear of this movie ever again. Only watch this movie if you're one of those YouTube review channels, or if you want to torture someone, I don't care, just don't give New Line Cinema any money for this pathetic excuse for a movie, go and buy a better movie, like, I don't know, Antz or something.… Expand

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