This was an awful movie, I too wondered how anyone financed this film. Some times reviews on IMDb are less than candid because nobody wants to offend someone they may work with in the future but come on people! In the beginning the hunters carry sticks with what appear to be plastic tips. They take down a huge sloth which looks like bad carpeting on a rejected sports club mascot. The hunters complain about how they need meat yet none of the hunters actually cut anything from the sloth to take back to the camp except one guy and that because he wanted to eat the heart (possibly due to the old cowboy/Indian movies where the guy who strikes the first blow always gets the heart, yeah right) There really wasn't an original shot, action or piece of dialogue in the entire film. The costumes were silly. The hot girls/cave women wore makeup and looked pretty but not believable. Except for Mr. Bean the acting was awful. Space and distance didn't seem to matter because while everyone had to cross the ocean and a few mountains. The bad guy arrived within moments of the good guys getting to camp despite the fact that the bridge over the canyon was cut so he would have had to find another way to their camp. He must have had a GPS because he actually found their camp without having the ability to follow them. Apparently the fact that the kid could read also gave him the ability for figure out chemical compounds. It was difficult to watch.

I tend to like direct-to-video movies in this genre, I know they are made with small budgets and with a limited number of recognizable stars, but they usually have ambitious plot lines and stories which can turn quickly by introducing new adversaries, terrorizing beasts, etc. Every time "The Lost Future" approached a point where it could have become exciting or, at least thoughtful, it took the easy way out.It could have been much better, or at least a lot more fun. The giant sloth-beast appeared at the beginning of the movie and gave some hope that there would be more special effects, but it was not to be.Keep at it SYFY; most of your movies may not be intellectual treasures, but at least they're fun!

Here is a tip top made for TV Sci-Fi movie. The script is clever, the film belies it's budget looking fab with the South African locations and all the cast shine.The creature effects are excellent and the action gallops along with some style.I would of really liked to have seen this on a big cinema screen rather than my TV,big as it is, with the bloody adverts every 10 muns butting in.Another problem with watching films on TV here in the UK is the TV channel logo top right all the way through a film. Someone explain why? I know which station i am on. Anyway can't fault this film so it gets top marks from me mainly due to 60 years of not seeing this plot used before in the Sci-fi genre.Well worth your time or rent it without fear of the cost.

I cannot believe how surprisingly good The Lost Future was. I mean there have been some surprisingly tolerable SyFy movies, but even they have too many mediocre moments to be above very good status. In my honest opinion, a vast majority of SyFy's output isn't worth bothering with.The Lost Future was surprisingly good, and for me too good a movie to be airing on the SyFy Channel. Perhaps the ending could have been a little more, that said, The Lost Future is handsomely photographed and the few special effects there are done with care. The music fits with the movie very well, the script while having the odd cheesy moment is mostly entertaining and the story has a great concept that is told and explored better than you would expect, in fact this story actually feels as though it was written by somebody who cared about it, you find that with very few SyFy productions.The direction is better than average too, the action is choreographed with skill and is compelling as is the acting, with the always solid Sean Bean giving one of the better performances of any movie aired on the SyFy Channel. Overall, this was surprisingly good and miles above anything SyFy has done. 8/10 Bethany Cox