Laikals The greatest movie ever made..!

StunnaKrypto Self-important, over-dramatic, uninspired.

PlatinumRead Just so...so bad

Mehdi Hoffman There's a more than satisfactory amount of boom-boom in the movie's trim running time.

Terry Williams I didn't know anything about this movie when I began watching it so I didn't know what to expect. With that in mind, Abduction doesn't become interesting until it approaches the half hour mark. I'm not trying to imply it was moving slowly early on but I was beginning to wonder where it was going. Everything started normal but then suddenly shifted into a spy film, replete with many twists and turns.The male haters are envious against the lead actor for obvious reasons. Don't listen to them. This is one of the better covert operation movies out there.

bcordner Abduction Review Four out of five stars "Abduction" is one of those films that is just so stupid and badly done that you just can't stop yourself from laughing. This film is filled with cheesy lines and over dramatic actors. In this movie Nathan Harper (Taylor Lautner) is a regular teenage boy. He lives a normal life with his normal parents. He is most concerned with getting the girl and not getting bullied. His parents have made sure that Nathan can defend and protect himself. Little does he know that he is not the only one needing the protection. Nathan finds out that his parents, the people he has known since he was little, are not actually his parents. Nathan finds out that his adoptive parents are actually CIA secret agents. And his real father is neither good or bad. His real dad's nemesis killed his mom. And he is trying to kill him. This movie was meant to be serious but obviously failed. Even though John Singleton (director) failed to make this movie serious, he still made a good movie. When I say good movie I mean there is stupidity to a point of comedy. If you hate stupid acting and too much drama, this movie is not for you. Yes, this movie has really bad acting and directing, but those two factors were channeled towards comedy (not on purpose). If you have any sense of humor, if you don't mind bad acting, and directing you should watch Abduction.

Prismark10 A change of pace from gritty urban director John Singleton who tries to go for a Hitchcock type thriller with a teen audience in mind. Singleton in the past directed a Fast and Furious sequel so he has a previous in this type of movies. Taylor Lautner is a teenage High school kid who whilst working on an assignment discovers a photo of him as a kid on a missing person's website. He realises that people looking after him are not his real parents and that he is a missing person. When he and his girlfriend, Lily Collins delve into it more, they suddenly find that his supposed parents are attacked and killed by ruthless Russian agents. Lautner and Collins find themselves on the run with few people they can trust.Lautner discovers that the childhood memories which always haunted him were true and that his real mother was attacked and killed. His real father is a high level secret agent that the bad guys want to smoke out as he has access to a list of rogue agents. The couple raising him were also agents who wanted to protect him. Therefore they raised him to fight and have survival skills in case it were needed one day.Veteran actors such as Alfred Molina and Sigourney Weaver drop by as people who might help or hinder the runaway pair.Abduction is an efficient action thriller with a corny script. Lautner does well enough with the action scenes and he seems to be doing a lot of his own stunts. He is let down by his dramatic acting, not helped by being saddled with poor lines. However I have noticed that he seems to come across a lot better in comedy subsequent comedy roles. Collins is there as eye candy only and Singleton handles the action scenes well and keeps the tension going but the movie is never more than average.

Troy Putland With the film titled Abduction we'd at least expect (or hope) Taylor Lautner's high school-er will be abducted. No? Maybe he was abducted before, hence the parents who look nothing like him but have different skin colour too. Nathan (Lautner) also miraculously knows how to defend himself. Convincing? Not in a million years. A lukewarm story accompanied by a enigmatic script awards Lautner zero edge and maximum cheesiness. Lily Collins, although very pretty and adept at acting these days, has little to do but gawp. Their romance is ruined by one foul line and an even fouler kiss. Someone wants Nathan dead, someone connected to his real father. He's wiggled out of hiding with his surrogate parents (Bello and Isaacs) by an unconvincing terrorist (Nyqvist) who wants an important list that's kept on a mobile phone. Cleverness doesn't come in to Abduction's vocabulary. Even Nathan's psychologist Dr. Bennett's (Weaver) balloon-camera cover-up trick in a hospital feels stupid.Check out my other reviews on http://straighttelling.co.uk