Abandon (2002)
Average Rating: 4.3/10
Reviews Counted: 109
Fresh: 18 | Rotten: 91
The plotline for Abandon is too disjointed and muddled to offer much in the way of thrills.
Average Rating: 4.2/10
Critic Reviews: 28
Fresh: 7 | Rotten: 21
The plotline for Abandon is too disjointed and muddled to offer much in the way of thrills.
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A young woman is faced with the disturbing reemergence of a man she once loved in this psychological thriller. Embry Langan (Charlie Hunnam) was a wealthy but reckless student at an exclusive private college until he mysteriously vanished, with airline tickets to Europe left unused and plenty of money still in the bank. Two years later, Katie Burke (Katie Holmes), Embry's girlfriend, is still dealing with his disappearance as she goes into the home stretch of her college career. With exams, a
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Cast
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Katie Holmes
Katie Burke -
Benjamin Bratt
Detective Wade Handler -
Charlie Hunnam
Embry Langan -
Zooey Deschanel
Samantha Harper -
Gabriel Mann
Harrison Hobart -
Gabrielle Union
Amanda Luttrell -
Mark Feuerstein
Robert Hanson -
Melanie Lynskey
Mousy Julie -
Will McCormack
August -
Philip Bosco
Professor Jergensen -
Tony Goldwyn
Dr. David Schaffer -
Fred Ward
Lt. Bill Stayton -
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All Critics (115) | Top Critics (31) | Fresh (18) | Rotten (91) | DVD (13)
It's a bad sign in a thriller when you instantly know whodunit.
Top Critic[Gaghan] successfully illustrates that if a filmmaker is capable and intelligent -- and assumes that his audience is the same -- he can transcend the limitations of even so lowly a genre.
Hardly a nuanced portrait of a young woman's breakdown, the film nevertheless works up a few scares.
It's light on the chills and heavy on the atmospheric weirdness, and there are moments of jaw-droppingly odd behavior -- yet I found it weirdly appealing.
Pic's structure and last-minute disclosures entirely betray any personal investment the viewer has made in this low-key yarn, which will cause audiences to feel ambushed and sullied at fadeout.
The title helpfully offers the most succinct review of it you'll read anywhere.
It really is almost impressive how bad this is.
A flimsy and tedious thriller.
The film's final twist is admittedly quite effective, though it doesn't even remotely justify the interminable build-up leading into it.
Might have been titled Fatal Attraction -- The College Years.
Lacked an emotionally endearing story.
The twist ending ... becomes discernible around the midway point, but Gaghan makes up for it ...
O ritmo lento e o final previsível (e absurdo) comprometem o filme irremediavelmente.
In the end, the film is less the cheap thriller you'd expect than it is a fairly revealing study of its two main characters - damaged-goods people whose orbits will inevitably and dangerously collide.
Abandon is a damn good movie.
Nothing is more frustrating than a movie that banks on a twist ending that it telegraphs 30 minutes before climax.
For what I suppose must be classified as a 'teen thriller,' this film has a surprising amount of substance.
Meandering and glacially paced, and often just plain dull.
[Its] failure becomes most obvious in retrospect, when the realization dawns that the most affecting, inventive, and honest moments of the film were those that hewed most closely to the original text.
Don't bother seeing Abandon. Within half an hour of sitting down, you'll want to perpetrate the nominal act on the theatre itself.
Easily the most manipulative thriller since Brian De Palma retired to a career of spectacular irrelevance. That's why it's so effective - and fiendishly satisfying.
More often than not, the film lapses into basic thriller tricks.
Stephen Gaghan's "Abandon" might be perhaps the most substandard, unanimously mind-numbing feature of the year. It's characters - boring, it's storyline - non-existent, and it's performances - trite
"Abandon" will leave you wanting to abandon the theater.
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