I have heard for years about ABANDON and hoped to watch it as well for years because of the star studded cast and also because despite it has a score of 4,9 I am always willing to give badly reviewed films a chance. Unfortunately this wasn't the case and when I saw it I ended up agreeing with nearly all the other low reviews.
Katie Burke (Katie Holmes) looks like a girl with a perfect life: she gets good grades in college and it's next to graduation and is about to start a new job. But she is having also an hard time because of the final exams and the preparation of the thesis and can't overcome the abandon of her former boyfriend Embry Larkin (Charlie Hunnam) that disappeared two years earlier. Soon detective Wade Handler (Benjamin Bratt) comes for investigating on Embry and Katie seems to be the only one that can see him wandering around on campus and after even starting a relationship with Wade she discovers that Wade went to college for taking Embry's place and in fact he ends up killed in Embry's same way: smacked on the head with a rock in the abandoned dormitory that is soon to be demolished.
The concept looked great, but after a while it became more and more confusing thanks to some bad writing and some hard to believe moments, and it's a miracle that I understood the ending: Katie felt that Wade and Embry were connected because in the past she also suffered other abandon crisis. The acting was a bit stilted in some points especially in Holmes' case.
Overall, a thriller that could have been great but instead it opted for being more confusing than full of suspense, and that is it's major strike.
Katie Burke (Katie Holmes) looks like a girl with a perfect life: she gets good grades in college and it's next to graduation and is about to start a new job. But she is having also an hard time because of the final exams and the preparation of the thesis and can't overcome the abandon of her former boyfriend Embry Larkin (Charlie Hunnam) that disappeared two years earlier. Soon detective Wade Handler (Benjamin Bratt) comes for investigating on Embry and Katie seems to be the only one that can see him wandering around on campus and after even starting a relationship with Wade she discovers that Wade went to college for taking Embry's place and in fact he ends up killed in Embry's same way: smacked on the head with a rock in the abandoned dormitory that is soon to be demolished.
The concept looked great, but after a while it became more and more confusing thanks to some bad writing and some hard to believe moments, and it's a miracle that I understood the ending: Katie felt that Wade and Embry were connected because in the past she also suffered other abandon crisis. The acting was a bit stilted in some points especially in Holmes' case.
Overall, a thriller that could have been great but instead it opted for being more confusing than full of suspense, and that is it's major strike.