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...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...
...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...
...into her mind; instead, it relys on shamelessly dramatic flashbacks of her father leaving her in a field of snow to give the audience insight into her doom-riddled fear of abandonment. Moreover, although the most crucial aspect of Katie’s affliction that feeds into the final plot twist is rather obvious right from the start, the movie chooses to pretend that the viewer has no clue about this key fact and plows through scene after scene that would be tense and suspenseful if only the underlying cause were not already made clear...
With its clumsy plot, insufficient ending and sparse clever lines, Abandon leaves much to be desired...
Sanders then threatens to leave if he is not given the chairmanship, at which point the plot veers substantially from reality—Winthrop is murdered by a love-struck graduate student seduced by a visiting (and mass-murdering) Oxford professor. Although Sanders is initially a suspect, he is later cleared...