The ending won't likely come as that much of a surprise to fans of this genre.
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10/18/02
Abandon (2002)
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Reviews Counted:108
Fresh:18
Rotten:90
Average Rating:4.3/10
Consensus: The plotline for Abandon is too disjointed and muddled to offer much in the way of thrills.
Runtime: 1 hr 39 mins
Genre: Dramas
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
Reviews for Abandon
The only thing worse than your substandard, run-of-the-mill Hollywood picture is an angst-ridden attempt to be profound.
10/18/02
The 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
Thriller directorial debut for Traffic scribe Gaghan has all the right parts, but the pieces don't quite fit together.
10/18/02
... 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
A lot of confusion -- for not a lot of payoff.
10/18/02
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You've convinced yourself it's a drama just before the story twists, after which the throwaway 'filler' scenes become conversation points you'll decipher on the way home.
10/18/02
A 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
Gaghan never manages to create any significant suspense nor give any of the plot's red herrings enough color to make them worth considering.
10/18/02
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10/18/02
Challenging, intermittently engrossing and unflaggingly creative. But it's too long and too convoluted and it ends in a muddle.
10/18/02
One of the most incoherent features in recent memory.
10/18/02
Gaghan ... has thrown every suspenseful cliché in the book at this nonsensical story.
10/18/02
Abandon all hope ye who enter here and are hoping to see a good movie - this is not so much a psychological thriller as it is a psychological torture-test of endurance.
10/18/02
Abandon may hide behind an art-house facade, yet it’s really just a standard Hollywood slasher minus the blood. Perhaps a more fitting title for the film would be Urbane Legends.
10/18/02
Gaghan supplies the movie with one good twist, then muffs the delivery with a twitchy flashback/flash-forward story structure.
10/18/02
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