The Lost (2009)

Must See Movie...

Best movie ever!

It is not deep, but it is fun to watch. It does have a bit more of an edge to it than other similar films.

Strong acting helps the film overcome an uncertain premise and create characters that hold our attention absolutely.

An aging psychiatrist, Dr. Kevin Khoury, now writing about the illness of multiple personality disorders is approached by a woman at a book signing, eventuality forcing him to go into one of his older cases, when he gave diagnostics to a young girl's case the woman's sister. This is the start of a film which has a great deal of talent, and which could have been quite a film if the script writing had held all the story though.With quite a meager budget the film maker has made a film which manages to keep your interest all the way until the end, which might not follow up your expectations. The acting is excellent. Armane Assante is great as the psychiatrist, but the one stealing the show is Lacey Chabert, which plays the sister. She is absolutely amazing in her role as the MPD-ridden girl.If you like a good mystery, this is time well spent, with a great idea in the midst of a film which allowed your mind to work hard. Still I could see this material being made into a very good film with a little better script writing. The rest if the film is very talented all the way through.

Wonderful theme and very suspenseful up to the end, it catches the interest of the intelligent viewer and I guess it would be even more catching for a person with Psycology and psychiatry leanings and likings. the ending was a bit obscure to me as I didn't get to know why the doc had interred his wife in Spain, how his revealing the deathbed of the wife led to the cure of the multiple-personality disease of the girl, and what was his intention after all for all his support, consisting his time and effort whatsoever on getting to cure the patient, if it had ever any relatedness to his wife from the very start that he came to Spain? It ended up after all to be another recurrent characters who are faithful protagonists acting at the focal point of the film, while they turn out to be the hideously destructive force of the incidents. What lied beneath this rater sensible character of the composite doc, I am not aware? dealing with patients of psychological disorder? The untold but obvious dealing one can make one wonder if this was a contagious disorder, the patient being cured, caught the doc himself. What I appreciated most was the unaffected character of Dina Meyer who having initiated all this relationship, had seemed to show affections to the doc-if it was not a front, but anyway had seen a scholarly appreciated character torn to piece, and was so calm at the end.

Surprise ending and twists are suppose to help dress and ignite the silver screen as well as deliver food for thoughts to audiences, but this one just turned out its own lights.Now, imagine a top psychiatrist/serial killer who managed to suppress all of his own evil killings... and now presently working to help uncover the deaths of 4 female spirits (one of them happens to be his own wife) whom he personally buried under a salt mine. Working along one of the victim's sister, a cop and a psychic.Now that's plenty of resources at his disposals, not to mention the four ghosts whose memories were intact and a psychic... a psychic! You'd think they all knew it was him as soon as he walked in the front door! But Noooooooooope! The movie kept pointing the killer in all different directions, other than the evil doctor himself, which as it turned out, surprise surprise!... the ending twist of the movie. What a shame.This could have been really good should the killer be someone else, good as in it would have made more sense and I would have given this one 8/10.

I found this to be a fairly good movie.The acting was good, I doubted Lacey Chabert could pull off multiple personalities but she was much better than I expected. Dina Meyer is pretty as ever and Assante was good, though far less animated than I'm used to. He was playing a psychiatrist turned writer so I guess it fit.The story was gripping and kept you interested, though at times wondering why the characters couldn't figure out what you had. (Don't be too smug ;) The end was abrupt and I think they could have done a better job, but overall I would say that this movie would be well received by most.