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Generally favorable reviews- based on 12 Ratings

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 26
  2. Negative: 12 out of 26
  1. 75
    The biggest surprise may be what the filmmaker doesn't show; he withholds a big dramatic payoff, so the audience must fill in the blanks.
  2. 50
    Too much of this well-acted but dangerously slow thriller feels like a preamble to a bigger, more complicated story, one that never materializes.
  3. Reviewed by: Ty Burr
    38
    Abandon is this CLOSE to being good, juicy, bad-movie fun.
  4. Reviewed by: Mike Clark
    38
    Holmes, of Dawson's Creek, will be up the creek if she can't avoid movies like this. And so will you if you see it.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 7
  2. Negative: 1 out of 7
  1. DanielleR.
    3
    While Abandon is a film that has somewhat pleasing cinematography and a gorgeous actress, it fails to fully develop as a story, and it leaves some questions and mass confusion running in the viewers head. While many films use subtlety when it comes to some major points (ex: the original Stepford wifes, at the climax), the subtlety is too subtle in the end. It left me a little bit unsure of exactly what happened. I saw this movie in the theater with a friend simply because we wanted to see something and could not see The Ring, and it's a decision I truly regret. I do not usually have a negative opinion of a film, but this one managed to wrench one from me. Expand

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