Abandoned (2010)

I gotta say, I love movies where there is some suspense mixed in with the main character going seemingly crazy. This was Murphy's last movie and she looked like she was completely sick in this movie. Although the movie had a good plot with a great theme, I just couldn't concentrate and get pass the horrible look of Brittany Murphy. She looks like a trailer trash junkie thrown in a business suit! Only an idiot would believe that she was actually an executive banker! Throughout the movie,her hair looks as though it hasn't been washed in weeks, she has huge bangs under her eyes,she is as thin as a rail and the big "OMG, WTF were they thinking" part was her badly blonde-dyed and bushy eyebrows!Why did they have to make her blonde. Was it really necessary for the part? I thought it was really weird that after dating someone for 4 months you don't have any pictures with them and none of your friends and family have ever seen this "mystery" lover. This was the best concept of this movie. I can honestly say that the movie is great (I've seen it more than once) but the acting and look of Murphy bombed! If you can stand to sit through watching a nasty looking Murphy for 2 hours, then go for it. It's sad that this was her last movie look!

Honestly don't know why this movie is getting bad reviews, I thought it was pretty good. It kept me distracted from my phone and iPad so it grabbed my attention right from the start. And I didn't see the way the movie ended coming at all, loved the twist at the end. I would watch it again for sure. Or perhaps my judgement towards this movie is clouded because I watched a really bad movie just before it. Anyway this movie gets straight to the point it and doesn't drag on at all and I thought Brittany Murphy did a decent performance in this movie. The only, kind of, downfall is that the whole movie is basically shot in one hospital, but nevertheless The movie is very entertaining and the suspense keeps building up right until the end were all will be revealed.

Mary Walsh (Brittany Murphy) takes her boyfriend Kevin (Dean Cain) to the hospital for some routine outpatient surgery on his leg. She is with him during check in, and leaves him in the room for his surgery only to return and find him missing. Hospital staff, security, and administration can find no trace of him in the system so she contacts a police detective on her own. After a search of the hospital turns up nothing, and Mary accidentally drops a bottle of anti-depressants from her bag, a hospital psychiatrist is brought in to evaluate her and deems her "unstable". She asks for a moment alone, and then flees his office to try and find answers on her own. While hiding in the hospital morgue she gets a call from Kevin telling her he is still inside the hospital being held captive and that she should trust no one before he screams and the call disconnects. As Mary leaves the morgue and is being chased by a burly security guard she crosses over into the parking garage and is hit by a car, leaving her to be taken into custody once again by hospital staff.While in her recovery room she is approached once again by an older gentleman you see her having coffee with in the cafeteria earlier on in the film. He pulls out a folder and starts reading off various facts about her, including the fact that she works at a bank that just received government bail-out funds. He then shows her a photo of an injured and bleeding Kevin on his cell phone and tells her that he wants $10 million dollars transferred from the bank into his account or else he will have her boyfriend killed. He then transports Mary to a location where she can connect to the internet so that she can make the transfer.Mary and the older man go to where Kevin is being held, and they release him to her once she sends the funds into their account. Then Kevin backs away and pulls off his leg brace, peeling off the cosmetic "wound" he'd applied to his forehead, and tells her that he was behind the plan all along. He and the older man had met in prison and devised the scheme around the plot of a book. The nurse from the hospital, and the security guard are in on the scheme as well. Kevin and the older man leave with the nurse, thinking they have their money, and send the security guard off to kill Mary. She escapes in the stairwell and runs away. Another character from the plan calls Kevin and notifies him that the money has NOT been transferred, so they turn and go back for Mary to get their money and silence her once and for all.Mary flees and they give chase. Mary ends up in another stairwell with the older man, guns pointed at one another. He refuses to drop his gun so she is forced to shoot him. "Kevin" finds her and tries to sweet talk her into working things out and taking the money with him and running so they can create new lives and be together. She pretends she is going to transfer the money, then throws the phone at him. He falls from the stairwell, hitting the ground and dying instantly. The police detective then shows up and apologizes to her for not believing her in the beginning. She asks what changed his mind and he shows her the book Kevin had been reading that outlines the entire plot. He walks her from the building and the screen displays "In Memory of Brittany Murphy".OPINION: The movie is poorly written, and poorly filmed; it looks as tho it was filmed with a fairly small budget. The acting, for the most part, is hit or miss. At the beginning Brittany Murphy is pale and sickly with dark rings under her eyes and messy, greasy looking hair. Later in the movie however she looks much better. I imagine the beginning portions were filmed last, probably right before she passed away.I wouldn't watch this again, and wouldn't really recommend it to anyone either unless they are A, die-hard Brittany Murphy fans or B, extremely bored and there is absolutely nothing else to do.

Brittany Murphy had that something special. A certain look, an allure, a presence. As the French say, a certain something I don't know what. You see it in this movie. It's a drama/mystery/suspense flick that for some reason went direct to video.Brittany drops off her boyfriend (Dean Cain) at the hospital for routine, out patient surgery. Except when she goes to pick him up, no one seems to know anything about him. He's not in the computer, his doctor is on vacation, and no one recognizes his nurse's name. Brittany gives a very good performance as the increasingly worried girl friend, seemingly losing the only man she has really connected with in a long time, or ever. Someone who has been there for her, and now, despite her best efforts, she can't be there for him. Peter Bogdanovich is also good as the creepy psychiatrist who suspects Brittany is suffering from a mental break down, a suspicion fueled by her current high dose anti-depressant meds and an unlikely story reeking of paranoia.Supporting cast include Mimi Rogers as the clueless hospital administrator, Jay Pickett as the police detective with his own issues who is still good enough to follow the clues to the end, and Scott Anthony Leet as the intimidating security guard. Each give a competent performance that is credible.The suspense is "edge of your seat" quality, and you can not be sure of the ending until it happens. Some (including me) might think it fairly obvious based on the plot clues, but that part is only the beginning of the twists.As Brittany's final performance, this one is good enough to make you want to watch again sometime. Ultimately, it makes you wish she had longer to show us what she had.