The film's final twist is admittedly quite effective, though it doesn't even remotely justify the interminable build-up leading into it.
01/04/07 03:17 AM
Abandon (2002)
17 %
Reviews Counted: 105 Fresh: 18 Rotten:87 Average Rating: 4.3/10
Consensus: The plotline for Abandon is too disjointed and muddled to offer much in the way of thrills. more
Runtime: 1 hr 39 mins
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 tells the troubled story of Katie (Katie Holmes), a college senior who's having a tough... [More]
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Katie Holmes, Charlie Hunnam, Benjamin Bratt, Zooey Deschanel, Melanie Lynskey
Director: Stephen Gaghan
Screenwriter: Stephen Gaghan
Director: Edward Zwick
Producer: Lynda Obst, Gary Barber, Roger Birnbaum
Composer: Clint Mansell
Screenwriter: Stephen Gaghan
Director: Edward Zwick
Producer: Lynda Obst, Gary Barber, Roger Birnbaum
Composer: Clint Mansell
Reviews
Might have been titled Fatal Attraction -- The College Years.
06/23/04 10:10 AM
The twist ending ... becomes discernible around the midway point, but Gaghan makes up for it ...
01/06/04 05:39 PM
O ritmo lento e o final previsível (e absurdo) comprometem o filme irremediavelmente.
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Comment
11/16/03 07:57 PM
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.
06/27/03 12:12 AM
Nothing is more frustrating than a movie that banks on a twist ending that it telegraphs 30 minutes before climax.
03/21/03 10:48 PM
For what I suppose must be classified as a 'teen thriller,' this film has a surprising amount of substance.
02/08/03 08:17 AM
[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.
12/18/02 08:56 PM
Don't bother seeing Abandon. Within half an hour of sitting down, you'll want to perpetrate the nominal act on the theatre itself.
11/24/02 08:59 AM
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.
10/28/02 04:19 PM
More often than not, the film lapses into basic thriller tricks.
10/27/02 08:16 AM
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
10/26/02 08:16 AM
It's a bad sign in a thriller when you instantly know whodunit.
10/25/02 04:38 PM
[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.
10/25/02 04:24 PM
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