'Abigail' movie review

Updated On: 26 April, 2024 12:10 PM IST | Mumbai | Johnson Thomas

`Abigail` movie review: The plot may not have a complex bent but the bare-bones story is enough for the team to work up a flood of blood and gore - the kind that we’ve rarely seen before

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Film: Abigail
Cast: Alisha Weir, Melissa Barrera, Dan Stevens, Angus Cloud, Kathryn Newton, William Catlett, Kevin Durand, Giancarlo Esposito
Director: Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, Tyler Gillett
Rating: 3/5
Runtime: 109 min.

The film opens quite alluringly - with a little girl practicing her ballet routine in a theatre and then settling down to go back home. Parallel to that we see a group of 6 assembled criminal experts, unknown to each other, prepping themselves for the assignment of kidnapping the little ballerina for a heavy ransom. We may guess that she could be the daughter of a multi-millionaire and so do they criminals. But they’ve been given their orders and the booty is just enough to shut out their curiosity regarding the victim. The deed is done and the group just about make it out of the girl`s home, taking her to the appointed place several miles away.

The premise is unsophisticated, cliched, but what happens thereafter makes it interesting. It’s supposed to be a 24-hour job and each is looking at $7 million as pay-off. The lure is strong enough for them to stay captive in a mansion that literally turns on them. In the first two hours itself they find out that she is the daughter of a badass who goes by the name of Kristoff Lazaar. Urban Legends have him as an omnipotent power who can accomplish even the impossible. But Lazaar is not the only problem they are facing…

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