UnowPriceless hyped garbage

StyleSk8r At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

Tayyab Torres Strong acting helps the film overcome an uncertain premise and create characters that hold our attention absolutely.

Caryl It is a whirlwind of delight --- attractive actors, stunning couture, spectacular sets and outrageous parties. It's a feast for the eyes. But what really makes this dramedy work is the acting.

Rosalie Consiglio Only writing this because I searched every page of reviews for "bridge" and no one else has, what is up with the bridge being out? If it was already out, then how did SHE get there? Or is she already dead before that, since Misharin is her father, and he is a ghost, BTW, if he is a ghost, how did he contact her ALIVE and in CA to get her to go there? That seems to be breaking some kinda ghost rules. Also, why do they see the doppelgangers when they are supposedly not dead yet, or are they? Also, they do not say who the other people in the other house are where the truck stops in the beginning where the mother dies. Unless it is just a neighbor and not a relative. Other than these details, good movie. Scary enough, not a lot of gore, but just enough mystery and artsiness.

Viator Veritatis It all depends on what you are looking for.Abandoned features beautiful cinematography, an interesting score and excellent photography, but will infuriate any viewer who, like myself, expects a logic, coherent storyline and sensible dialogs. Besides, it is so drawn out, repetitive and full of false scares as to compromise any entertainment value. It works best for those interested in a piece of art or those who like kaleidoscopic, almost hallucinatory atmospheres packed to the brim with nonstop frantic action and explosive sounds, allowing the spectator no pause to come up for air and/or think about what's happening.

FlashCallahan A film producer who was adopted as a baby and sent to America, returns to her native Russia and the family farm, where she was born. Strange things begin to happen including the disappearance of her guide, the manifestation of ghosts, an apparition of herself, and the appearance of another man who may have an explanation, or even a connection......This film had a lot of potential, showing the flip side of someone's life, if they hadn't had something happen to them at the last second.You know those movies where someone is going to get shot, and at the last minute they are saved by someone else? This is what would happen if that someone else wasn't there.It sounds very promising, and in the hands of an able director, the story would have been well told, but instead,me get this borefest that has a decent twist to it, but doesn't know how to deal with it.So we are left to the obvious brother and sister walking around the house, walking into zombified versions of each other, and then get treated to a reconstruction of the two as babies, with a little bit of Hannibal thrown in for good measure.And that's the film, the two leads have no chemistry together, and Roden looks like he's been forced at gunpoint to do this.I wouldn't bother, it sounded good, but self heating cans of coffee did too, and look how many people regret having them.

Claudio Carvalho In 1966, somewhere in Russia, a wounded woman drives a truck to an isolated farm with two babies. Forty years later, the film producer Marie Jones (Anastasia Hille) leaves her daughter in California and travels back to her home land in the wilderness of Russia. Marie is one of the children and had received a phone call from the notary public Andrei Misharin (Valentin Ganev) that had told her where the farm of her family is. Marie arrives in the abandoned house and meets the stranger Nicolai (Karel Roden) that tells her that he had also received a call from Misharin and he is her twin brother. Weird things happen in the house and Marie and Nicolai are haunted by eerie ghosts of themselves. Further, they find that they are trapped in the house and can not leave the place."The Abandoned" is a frightening and creepy film of ghosts, with a nightmarish atmosphere but a dull story. The unknown Anastasia Hille has great performance and the cinematography is very dark; but the story is very confused and predictable. Cristopher Smith used in "Triangle" (2009) a similar idea of people trapped in a location that can never leave the cycle. My vote is five.Title (Brazil): "Abandonados" ("Abandoned")