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Summary: BOORing
Review:
What a lame, boring movie. Did the producers have money to burn when making this? Benjamin Bratt..You have done, and can do much better than being in such a lackluster movie
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Summary: unforgettable
Review: "unforgettable phychological thrill ride", so says the promo, don't believe it, this movie stunk up my living room. Katie Holmes does not act in this mess, she stares blankely. Why did I hire this mess? I like thrillers, really I do, should stick to Hitchcock, this was really bad. No one from dawson's creek can act properly, no one.
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Summary: unforgettable
Review: "unforgettable phychological thrill ride", so says the promo, don't believe it, this movie stunk up my living room. Katie Holmes does not act in this mess, she stares blankely. Why did I hire this mess? I like thrillers, really I do, should stick to Hitchcock, this was really bad. No one from dawson's creek can act properly, no one.
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Summary: Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter Here
Review: **1/2 "Abandon" is yet another in a long line of mystery films in which the audience is supposed to be thrown for a loop when it comes time for the filmmakers to unveil their "surprise, turnabout" ending. Only, in this case, most reasonably intelligent filmgoers should be able to spot the outcome miles ahead of the characters. Katie Holmes stars as Katie Burke, an attractive but overstressed college student who has had serious abandonment issues ever since her father left her when she was a little girl. It turns out that Katie was also dumped by her boyfriend, Embry Larkin, two years ago when he mysteriously vanished from school without a trace. Benjamin Bratt plays Wade Handler, a detective sent to investigate the disappearance who believes that the boy may have met with foul play. Suddenly, Katie starts seeing Embry popping up in various places around campus. Has he returned or is someone playing a cruel and vicious game on the distraught young woman? "Abandon" provides passable entertainment for undemanding mystery buffs, I suppose, but the film, as a whole, is neither particularly suspenseful nor particularly intriguing. The details of Bratt's past, which are supposed to somehow figure into his psychology, are so sketchily filled in that we have almost no idea of what the trauma was that supposedly turned his life around. Katie's issues are a little more clearly outlined, but her character still emerges as little more than a pop psychology cliché - as is the whole movie, in fact, when you come right down to it. "Abandon" is not really a bad film, just an instantly forgettable one. Chances are it might fit the bill on one of those long, lonely nights when the brain goes into snooze mode and anything of any real substance just seems too taxing.
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Summary: I have seen worse films ...
Review: ... Having said that, "Abandon" is not a great movie. It is an okay movie if you just want to pass two hours, but no more than that. There is no suspense ... I easily get scared, but I watched this movie alone and in the middle of the night yet I wasn't one bit scared. For a thriller, that is a bit disappointing! Even when looked at as a psychological thriller the film doesn't really deliver. The script isn't well written ... a lot of scenes don't make sense ... there is a girl who keeps talking in cryptic messages as if she knew exactly what happened to Embry (the missing student), but we never learn whether she really did know ... another student goes missing and everybody is worried (there is a scene where his parents are at a restaurant with Katie, the main character, and ask her if she knows where he might be) yet he later re-appears and no mention of where he was (or even that he was gone) is made. Odd, to say the least! Characters keep saying things that have no relevance to what is happening in the movie, and the plot is entirely predictable! You can literally tell what a character is going to do before he/she does it!!! The acting is okay ... Benjamin Bratt gives a solid performance and manages to make his character likable and interesting; Charlie Hunnam is brilliant as the young eccentric composer Embry; the only one who doesn't seem to feel comfortable with her character at all is Katie Holmes ... her acting in this movie is mediocre, and she doesn't fit the part at all!!! Why she was cast in this movie is beyond me ...! There are no suspense-elements in this movie, and the surprise-ending is, well, not very surprising. I won't spoil it for you, but you will figure it out halfway through the movie! So, all in all, if you don't mind that the story develops very slowly, and that some things don't add up, then you might like this film! As I have said, I have seen far worse films ...
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Summary: One star in place of a zero
Review: ... Me and the roomie went to see it one Friday night and when it was over, I literally was on the floor laughing and crying for at least five minutes. I actually was intrigued at first until it became clear that it was all in her head, and she was the psycho. For the life of me, I can't remember what movie this was trying to be. This is one of the movies you watch just to make fun of and point out the problems.
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Summary: I fell asleep watching it...
Review: ... when I woke up at the end, I found out the ending from my bf that it is just as I predicted midway through the story. No mystery at all, very predictable, slow and boring.
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Summary: It was reasonably entertianing, but...
Review: ...for a mystery/thriller, there was very little that was mysterious or thrilling. From the first 15 minutes of the film, the end was obvious. Call me crazy, but I like plot twists that I don't see coming a mile away. But hey, it could have been worse - it could have been Disturbing Behavior.
Rating:
Summary: It was reasonably entertianing, but...
Review: ...for a mystery/thriller, there was very little that was mysterious or thrilling. From the first 15 minutes of the film, the end was obvious. Call me crazy, but I like plot twists that I don't see coming a mile away. But hey, it could have been worse - it could have been Disturbing Behavior.
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Summary: Forgettable college-thriller never grows boring
Review: Abandon (2002) Katie Holmes, Benjamin Bratt, Charlie Hunnam, Zooey Deschanel, Melanie Lynskey, Gabrielle Union, Gabriel Mann, Tony Goldwyn, Will McCormack, Fred Ward, Mark Feuerstein D: Stephen Gaghan. TRAFFIC's Academy Award-winning writer Gaghan bases his new screenplay loosely on Adam's Fall, a novel written by Sean Desmond, and sits in the director's chair. His thriller stars Holmes as Katie Burke, a sharp-witted college student, who has just aced a job interview with a firm and is in the process of completing her thesis and studying for finals, then her ex-boyfriend, Embry (Hunnam) reappears after he vanished for two years. Is Katie hallucinating? Certainly not when Detective Bratt even gets on the case, right? An inside look at collegian parties, studying, and females blossoming to sexual maturity; the leading lady's roommates are well portrayed by funny-girl Deschanel and Union, plus Lynskey as a mousy librarian. Still, very well crafted, the unforeseen twist near the denouement throws the suspense out the window and almost seems the mood was made for nothing. Running Time: 99 minutes and rated PG-13 for drug and alcohol content, sexuality, some violence, and language.
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