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10/25/02
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Abandon (2002)
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Reviews Counted:25
Fresh:6
Rotten:19
Average Rating:4.1/10
Consensus: The plotline for Abandon is too disjointed and muddled to offer much in the way of thrills.
Theatrical Release:Oct 18, 2002 Wide
Box Office: $10,684,049
Synopsis: Oscar-winning screenwriter Stephen Gaghan (TRAFFIC) makes his directorial debut with ABANDON, a dense, moody psychological thriller. Loosely based on the book ADAM'S FALL by Sean Desmond, ABANDON... [More]
Starring: Katie Holmes, Charlie Hunnam, Benjamin Bratt, Zooey Deschanel
Director: Stephen Gaghan, Edward Zwick
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Reviews for Abandon
Top CriticHardly a nuanced portrait of a young woman's breakdown, the film nevertheless works up a few scares.
10/22/02
Top CriticIt'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.
10/21/02
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10/19/02
Top CriticPic'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.
10/18/02
Top CriticThe title helpfully offers the most succinct review of it you'll read anywhere.
10/18/02
Top CriticSome movies are exercises in escapism, and this movie is no more and no less than that.
10/18/02
Top CriticOne sloughs one's way through the mire of this alleged psychological thriller in search of purpose or even a plot.
10/18/02
Top CriticComes across as exceedingly dumb, even when you consider that a lot of the rank stupidity is designed to facilitate the 'surprise' twist (ho-hum) that is telegraphed midway through the excruciatingly long 90-minute running time.
10/18/02
Top CriticThe movie finally did not satisfy me, and so I cannot recommend it, but there is a lot to praise, beginning with Katie Holmes' performance.
10/18/02
Top CriticIt can't make up its mind whether it's a serious drama, a swoony romance, or a psychological thriller.
10/18/02
Top Critic... expands the horizons of boredom to the point of collapse, turning into a black hole of dullness, from which no interesting concept can escape.
10/18/02
Top CriticA highly schizophrenic movie that clearly wants to explore the lives of university students under stress their senior year but is forced to do so within a thriller format that requires spooky moments and malevolent ghosts.
10/18/02
Top CriticCredit this picture with an ambitious effort to dramatize an ineffable yet recognizable mood -- even if its ambition isn't quite fulfilled.
10/18/02
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10/18/02
Top CriticChallenging, intermittently engrossing and unflaggingly creative. But it's too long and too convoluted and it ends in a muddle.
10/18/02
Top CriticOne of the most incoherent features in recent memory.
10/18/02
Top CriticGaghan ... has thrown every suspenseful cliché in the book at this nonsensical story.
10/18/02
Top Critic[The title's] unintentional effect is to presage the sense of torment the viewer experiences as he or she is buried deep inside the movie's unrewarding ramblings.
10/17/02
Top CriticThere's so little going on in the film that its title seems to suggest an action that audiences may be driven to take before the movie ends.
10/17/02
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