Why I Saw It: (Club 50) I like the cast. William Hurt is a solid, unconventional action movie lead. I'm always on board for a young Heather Graham (and Lacey Charbert). Gary Oldman is allowed to ham it up like crazy. Matt LeBlanc isn't the best action hero out there, but he's serviceable as a C-grade Will Smith. It's even got a young Jared Harris. This really isn't an awful movie. Unremarkable, maybe. From the reviews I've come across, it suffered way too much for trying to be different from the show.
Why I Wish I Hadn't: Starting with Lord of the Rings in 2001, or arguably The Phantom Menace in 1999, Hollywood took a big shift in how they did franchises. The first movies were for building worlds. You lay foundations in one movie that don't payoff until the next. You think one or two movies ahead at all times. This has its benefits (the end of the Lord of the Rings felt fully earned) and its faults (the excessive foreshadowing of The Amazing Spider-Man 2). Lost in Space comes from an earlier generation of this. It's clearly setting up for more movies, but it's trying to make this movie as stand alone as possible. It's then trying to pay homage to structures setup in the original show too. It was just a mess of a movie. It's reminiscent to a pilot of a TV show that gets better as it continues. This movie gets all the annoying stuff out of the way so that future adventures could get better. The problem is, there has to be a guarantee of a sequel for that to pay off.
Verdict (?): Weakly Don't Recommend
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