Juan Manuel Cassano
Well, let's see... this movie is a little weird. I think it must not be judged from a logical and factual point of view. Movies are art... they are good if they make you feel or think what they intended to. And this movie made me feel Good! The film is about a man trying to escape his past and a strange and mysterious young woman of a small town. He meets her when his car breaks down on the road and the woman offers him help. The movie includes a supposed murder that don't get clear until the end. As the film progresses, events that led the young women to be as she is, are discovered. Drama, mystery and romance, presented with innocence... as if you were telling a story. Nice.
boyinflares
The thing with Neve Campbell is, while most actors and actresses who play one role on a television series for a lengthy amount of time often get well remembered for that role and do not always find success elsewhere (such as some of the "Star Trek" casts), Campbell on the other hand is probably always going to be known not for her role in "Party of Five", but for playing Sidney Prescott in the meta-horror "Scream" Trilogy. Which, for Campbell, is not necessarily a bad thing, as not only was the entire "Scream" Trilogy extremely well done, Sidney Prescott is a horror heroine unlike almost any other.However, despite having such a honor to her name and career, Neve manages to get a variety of interesting roles, such as the one of Missy Lofton in "Lost Junction", an unusual film that for quite some time you may wonder what the point of it is. The film revolves around the meeting of Campbell's Missy and hottie Billy Burke's Jimmy McGee. The chemistry between Campbell and Burke is terrific and their characters are well-defined in terms of the context.What goes on between Missy and Jimmy in the small town of Lost Junction is interesting to a point, but becomes long and drawn out. The flashbacks are irritating and the story seems to go nowhere for quite some time. The supporting characters are rather uninteresting, except for Jake Busey, who for the first time surprised me in his role as a paraplegic. Despite Burke's charm and Campbell's skill, "Lost Junction" doesn't really add up to much, and therefore, is aptly titled.
blackie-5
I can usually find at least one thing to enjoy about a bad film, even if it's just the scenery or one actor's performance. Lost Junction, however, was one hundred percent lost on me and I'd like my $4 rental fee back. If I ever run into Neve Campbell or Peter Masterson, I'm going to ask that they repay me. I truly felt I had been watching this movie for at least an hour, and looked over at the clock to find I was only 23 minutes in! This is one of those films that's supposed to be about Southern Gothic, quirky characters in oh-so-disturbing, Southern Gothic scenarios. But it's anything but. This is one of those "Southern" tales where the Southern-ness is so pathetically imitated, the most "belle"-like thing Neve or the script can ever muster is to have Neve CONSTANTLY say to her leading man "Oh, Jimmy McGee!" (Because we all recognize a young, airheaded woman who likes to coo a man's FIRST AND LAST NAMES EACH AND EVERY TIME SHE SPEAKS TO HIM as "Southern"). The plot goes NOWHERE until the last 10 minutes(when it's way too late), bringing a throwaway character, a near-extra, into sudden plot relevance, taking away anything quirky or disturbing we've taken as truth about the 2 main characters for the last 90 minutes! An absolutely atrocious, unwatchable film. I refused to turn it off before it was over only because I'd paid that $4 (and I was determined to watch all of it, hoping it would improve), but BOY WAS IT AN ENDURANCE TEST!!!!!!!! Peter Masterson directed this, the same man responsible for the great "Trip to Bountiful." Hard to believe. Keep driving past this LOST JUNCTION!
afhick
This is a pleasant little film with an amiable cast. It's always fun to see Billy Burke in a starring role. You may think you know where this is going from the first view of the corpse in the trunk, but you'd probably be wrong. There's a touching side trip to Charleston, where Jimmy (Burke) faces down some old demons, even if the film never knows quite what to do with the Jake Busey character after this, and Neve Campbell is properly enigmatic as "the girl"--she's femme enough without being overly fatale. My favorite scene is when Dil, er, Billy, er, Jimmy sings along with a tape of Fred Neil on "Other Side of This Life." If you've never seen "Dil Scallion," it's a much better film than "Lost Junction," but this one is okay, an agreeable time-waster, if a bit more beige than noir. But that's fine too.
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