Abduction Reviews

Of course, I wasn’t expecting much from this flick but, somehow, I was still curious to check if it was really as bad as it looked. Well, it wasn’t really good, that’s for sure. Apparently, they thought it would be a good idea to surf on Taylor Lautner’s new popularity but it didn’t really work out and this flick was a flop. Since he is still very young, I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt but, at that point, the guy is just not ready yet to lead an action flick like this one. The sad thing is that the story actually had some potential. Imagine you’re a teenager, you fell don’t you fit into this world (like most teenagers) but, some day by accident, you discover your face on a missing persons website. What do you do then? So, there were some good opportunities there and even though the action genre was not the most interesting option, they could have pretty much followed the Bourne franchise formula and add a teenage twist but, unfortunately, you got no depth whatsoever, not much character development and, instead, some rather underwhelming action scenes. To conclude, even though the whole thing actually had some potential, it remains a rather weak action flick and it is not really worth a look, I'm afraid.

Nathan Harper living his life peacefully and cordially with his parents, except that his father was very adamant to make him focused and train him well not upto much likening of Nathan. All this serenity took a great turn when working on an assignment he come across his picture on missing kids website. All the hell broke out and Nathan find his parents, that proved later on were only caretaker parents that got killed when all the action started. Nathan has not only to run for his life but also to protect an encrypted file he got from his real father and had only handful of people to trust on.

Abduction

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After Nathan Harper finds a picture that oddly resembles himself online, he begins to ask questions. With in a day there are people attacking his house, trying to catch him. Nathan does not know who he can trust, so he goes off on the run, trying to remain hidden at every turn, all the while trying to figure exactly what is going.

Abduction was released earlier in the fall, and was supposed to be Lautner’s expose; he was supposed to come alive as the next big action star. If that was his sole intention, he should have chosen a script with at least a shred of credibility, and not just a typical action movie with the same old stunts seen hundreds of times. Lautners Jacob Black may have gained him a few supporters, as he is one of the few who has given off a worthy of mention performance in the Twilight saga. Lautner has the look, at 19 he is physically fit for any role. He can climb walls, kick, and punch and use all the martial arts moves he chooses. If anything in this film Lautner gets credit for at least kicking ass in the action scenes.

What Abduction suffers from is lack of integrity. It tries to build the romance between Nathan and the girl across the street, but it is just not necessary for the plot line at all. The character of Karen played atrociously by Lily Collins (daughter of drummer Phil Collins) had no reason to be in the film at all. Karen was simply used to add sexual tension and climax to a scene where the make out heavily on a train. Why do you they have these sexually charged young adults stopping to have a little romance and then suddenly just stop awkwardly to say “we should get food”? The reason is the PG-13 rating, it enables kissing and flirting, but very little else can be shown. PG-13 also brings down the limit of using the F-bomb to just one use.

Very little of Abduction is worthy of redemption. There are a few scenes that maybe could have used a touch of better writing, or at least an edit of the initial draft. Abduction was a film that got the green light because of the action. Everything else is a dull attempt to be better then what it is. All the dialogue is unpleasant to sit through, because Lautner hides behind his squished up face, it seemed like he was attempting to show rage. I feel like at times, when Lautner was attempting to sound like a tough 19 year old kid, his voice sounded shrill and child like.

Enough with the baseball stadium scenes, why is that the only public place to meet? Why would you choose such a place, unless you know every little crevice of the place it is probably not a good idea. It is more then likely possible, Nathan Harper would have known a much better public place to manoeuvre around in, a place much easier to plan a grand escape from. Also during the baseball stadium scene, Nathan does what every action movie character does; he meets with the bad guy when he was still ten steps ahead of him.

Lautner may be adored by screaming fan girls young and old all over the world, but that does not change the fact if he wants to remain a star, he must choose films that are worthy of him remaining a star. Perhaps he is still young, drawn to scripts that are a breeze to read, but someday Lautner it would be good to see if you can read a script and play a character that isn’t tough and does not rely on fighting. He is on the way to limiting his own career, because the worse movies you do, the likelihood of getting a quality script sent to you is lower.

Twilight star questions true identity in action thriller. A thriller centered on a young man who sets out to uncover the truth about his life after finding his baby photo on a missing persons website.