Too much of everything

Good idea lost in the noise

One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

A rich kid has been missing for quite sometime and his inheritance is up from grabs, so his death needs to be verified. A detective goes out searching for the truth. The kid's girlfriend he left behind seems like the place to find the truth. The cop falls for her as he seeks answers and the boyfriend seems to have returned just in the nick of time. The movie has a twist at the end and the truth is in the oddest of sources,This movie had nothing special about it, some of the acting was OK and some was bad. Katie Holmes, Ben Brat, the great Fred Ward in a small role, Zooey Deschanel, Melanie Lynskey and Gabreil Man were ones to pay attention to. Charlie Hunnan was horrible in this picture and he was like a poor man's Heath Ledger and thats a major insult.I watched this movie and was bored the entire film. It was so slow and when something did happen it was nothing exciting, the ending was unexpected but by the time I found out the truth I had lost interest… This movie is a thriller that was quickly forgotten and with good reasoning. I gave it 2 out of 10 stars, and I am not sure if it even deserved that.

Intense, dark and desperate. Katie(Katie Holmes)is a college student that has about reached her stress level trying to finish her thesis while competing with her friends for job interviews to enter the corporate world. There is one other thing...Katie is haunted by illusions of her extravagant well-to-do ex-boyfriend Embry(Charlie Hunnam) who's been missing for two years. Things become very tense and more complicated when a reluctant detective(Benjamin Bratt)reopens the missing person's case. This sleeper almost gets the best of you; but right before nodding off...the finale explains everything. Drug and alcohol scenes plus some mild sexuality and violence earn the PG13 rating.Most of the interest is the young Holmes, who seems to beg for your protection. Bratt could have phoned this one in. Zooey Daschanel is very noticeable as the 'anything goes' collage girl. Also in the cast: Fred Ward, Melanie Lynskey, Gabriel Mann and Gillian Ferrabee.

First of all I wasn't in good day when I watched this movie. i was hoping that a suspense would make me feel better about myself but it turned out to be a disappointment. It had a great cast, an Oscar winner screenwriter who had the chance to direct his first film. Second of all, I know that bad days isn't an excuse to complain about the movie because something was bothering me, but no one can say that I didn't try to like it. After 20 minutes watching characters so full of themselves, acting arrogantly and almost no likable qualities (except that most of them are beautiful) I started to think in doing this review.The story is this. Catherine (Katie Holmes) is an pressured college student and she's doing many things at the time, such as picking a career, write a thesis and have time for her friends (played by Zooey Deschanel, Will McCormack and Gabrielle Union). But she has another worry: the sudden disappearance of her boyfriend Embry (Charlie Hunnam, here he looks like Heath Ledger),disappeared two years ago that attracts the attention of a detective (Benjamin Bratt). We see flashbacks of the relationship between Catherine and Embry and we notice that they were happy (I don't buy this idea) and now she's stressed and can't function with her duties at all. She went to a therapist but nothing seems to work. She unites along with the detective trying to discover what happened to Embry, a beautiful, rich student that always left college for odd reasons. Suddenly (again!) Embry reappears and by that time the movie got so wrong, without any mystery, and no thrilling moments. I was expecting to see a thriller movie and not a character study of a annoying girl, not likable (at least to me) at all, arrogant (Please, don't think that Catherine is full of confidence, she's really arrogant, for instance the bosses talk she had in the interview or when she tries to be superior to the library girl, played by Melanie Lynskey). The biggest disappointment was everybody wants to be with her who acts this way and no one wants to talk with Harrison (Gabriel Mann), a very nice and charming character who protest against everything (a minor story that wasn't develop in the film). Too much drama made the film looks slow, boring, and killed the whole suspense. As mentioned in the title of this review, yes, I think that the responsible for this movie should say 'Sorry, My Bad!' because it wasted patience and time of the viewers who thought that this would be a great film, with interesting plot twists (it does have a plot twist but it's actually kind of funny and has something to do with the title of the movie). I'm giving 3 stars to this movie because of Gabriel Mann (known for his role in the Bourne series). He has the best scenes in the movie playing Harrison, one of Catherine's friend who always wants to get close to her. He loves her but she doesn't care a bit. An unappreciated character that every time that he appears on screen I liked him (but the characters in the movie always wanted to get rid of him). He's really an great actor here in this disappointing film. He really made this movie worth seeing.If you want to see another work from Stephen Gaghan, writer and director of "Abandon" go watch the excellent and complex "Syriana". You'll have nothing to lose by doing that, instead of watching "Abandon". 3/10

SPOILERS THROUGH: I do think this movie was a bit scary but that, to me, was the movie's strongest point. Well-that and a terrific performance from Katie Holmes. But the movie I did not care for. I'd heard very bad things about this movie and on the plus side, It Really isn't as bad as some have said but on the minus side, it isn't terribly good either.One thing that bothered me was for such an interesting premise, the movie itself wasn't all that interesting. It moves at a snail's pace and I predicted the "twist" relatively quickly. This one's not that difficult to figure out though on the plus side, the way it unravels has genuine impact. That was well done, I guess, and genuinely creepy as well.Maybe if the rest of the movie had been that absorbing it would have worked better. All I know is there is such a thing as using to many try hard to scare tactics. They succeeded with that but in the process, didn't do such a good job on character development, visuals or just the enjoyability aspect of viewing the movie.Watching this movie one feels like their in a tunnel. The whole movie seems to go almost in slow motion as well. It is a very dark movie and I'm not talking about the plot, I'm talking about the visuals. They are very dark and very gloomy. The whole thing with Katie's visions became overdone after awhile. She and Benjamen Brat, the Cop, had zero chemistry and he is to Interesting a character to have so little to do in the movie. I didn't care for the "twist" either or the ending in general. I wish it had gone in a different direction.Basically the previews of this movie make it look a lot more interesting then it winds up being. I did think there were some positives, the ones I mentioned above but I wouldn't want to view this movie again. My vote is slightly below average and a 4 of 10.