It is a performances centric movie

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

Unshakable, witty and deeply felt, the film will be paying emotional dividends for a long, long time.

If you're interested in the topic at hand, you should just watch it and judge yourself because the reviews have gone very biased by people that didn't even watch it and just hate (or love) the creator. I liked it, it was well written, narrated, and directed and it was about a topic that interests me.

Honestly, I had some doubts when I looked at the cover, but once I put it in the DVD player, I fell in love with it. It's on my Christmas List! It got pretty funny when Jake Busey finally came in, about half-way through. He put so much humor into it, it was great.I absolutely love it, even though the cover is pretty miss-leading.MUST watch to appreciate! It can be a little confusing, so you have to pay attention a lot. Of course when your favorite actor (Busey) is in it, you HAVE to, and CAN'T help it! So, I wish you lots of luck with this. It's so funny! Also, I thought the movie was very well put together, and the ending was a huge shock. It was very refreshing, and a great change to all the movies that are put together today. I mean, how many times have we seen the endings with everyone running off to paradise with each other? It's so old. This is a great ending.

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.

I don't see how this movie is entertaining at all. Everything about it is bad: The acting is atrocious. Just because Jake Busey is in a wheelchair doesn't mean he's a better actor for not moving his legs. What did Neve Campbell see in this script? There's no drama, action, comedy, or mystery. I can't remember the plot because there was none to speak of. The climax and ending are ridiculous to say the least. Don't be fooled by the other comments on this site. This went direct to video for a reason. Avoid it like the plague. It looks like MGM studios is churning out a lot of junk lately with this, "Angel Of Death", "Species III", "Unspeakable", and "The Ranch". MGM puts out anything if it has a B-list actor or actress.

Knowing nothing more about this movie than the blurb on the back, the wife and I decided to check it out. Many times when we've done this we've wound up with something that leaves us wondering what the folks who coughed up a couple of million to make a picture were drinking (or smoking). Not this time. Lost Junction is a little gem - thoroughly weird and truly entertaining - and a better movie by far than many of the big name/big budget movies we've seen lately. Infused throughout with an off-center take on reality, the film uses this skewed point of view to provide both poignant and humorous moments woven throughout a uniquely goofy storyline. When Jimmy hauls the bag out of the lake and the sheriff comments on its contents, we both started laughing so hard we were nearly in tears. His line will go down in our all-time movie favorites right alongside Marie Dressler's double take at Jean Harlow at the end of Dinner at Eight. But that's just us. If you're cruising the video store and having a hard time finding anything that looks interesting, by all means pick up this sleeper and enjoy!