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...twin dangers of a nuclear-armed North Korea and missile proliferation that prompted the 1994 deal between the Clinton administration, North Korea, South Korea and Japan. Under the terms of that pact, North Korea would abandon its nuclear weapons program, shutting down its Soviet-era nuclear power plants in exchange for extensive food and energy aid and the construction, by Japan, of two light-water nuclear reactors less conducive to manufacturing nuclear weapons. That was that treaty about which Bush was so skeptical early in 2001, and the same treaty has now been openly abrogated by the North Koreans...
...good psychological thriller keeps its viewers anxiously anticipating a surprise plot twist that seamlessly, and often eerily, makes all the pieces fit together. Think The Sixth Sense. Think The Others. Do not think Abandon...
...overall experience of watching Abandon feels like being handed a bag of movie fluff: There’s nothing substantial in it, nor anything to give it meaning. Despite blatantly trying to manipulate its audience with dark lighting, creepy music, pseudo-artsy panoramic views of night skies and an overabundance of flashbacks and fast forwards, these cinematic tricks still fail to create the creepy anticipation that well-developed characters and a tight plot would. What they do manage to create is a nagging sense that the film is aiming to insult the viewer’s intelligence...
With its clumsy plot, insufficient ending and sparse clever lines, Abandon leaves much to be desired...
...Amnesty International's Hall of Fame, but it is terrifying, and Mawdsley makes you feel it. Worst might be the "iron road," where a metal rod is rolled up and down the victim's shins until the skin is stripped to the bone. The terror almost leads him to abandon his mission...