Abduction (2011)

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. Abduction is one of those films that is pretty easy to hate especially for the leading actor Taylor Lautner who in my opinion did a pretty decent job especially with the fight sequences mostly during the fight training in his house and the train fight plus he knows martial arts so that's something, Lily Collins is kinda annoying at times i mean i didn't hate her character or the actress herself but it feels like she could have been cut out of the film and it still wouldn't change a thing. Now where the movie kinda lost me was with the pacing which at times it dragged a lot and i feel like the director tried to focus a lot more in Lautner rather than the rest of the Cast that has more experience and better acting chops than him and i was very disappointed with the fact that Jason Isaacs and Maria Bello were killed so early in the film i mean their characters were pretty interesting and when things started becoming even more interesting they just die? And then Sigourney Weaver shows up to help Nathan and Karen holding some balloons basically a rip- off scene from Eraser starring Arnold Schwarzenegger but even the lack of originality still the movie had some interesting things into it like the whole background of Nathan and his Father and speaking of hid dad? Dermot Mulroney shows up and they have this weird shots on his mouth and his eyes like the audience it's so stupid to not recognize such a famous actor like him. Overall if you count out the fact that it kills or basically disappears many famous actors and it lacks some more development within it's own plot Abduction is still a fun film to basically kill your free time and i did enjoy Lautner in the movie he isn't amazing but he isn't that awful either, the train scene is pretty cool and the late Michael Nyqvist alongside Alfred Molina do a pretty good job although their roles are limited their far bigger than Weaver's or Isaacs. (7/10)

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.

Nathan is at high school. He discovers a younger picture of himself on a missing persons register. Once he starts investigating, he is drawn into a game of intrigue involving the CIA and foreign agents, where nothing is what it seems and nobody can be trusted.A pretty conventional action-drama. Has a degree of intrigue but this just feels contrived and implausible. Plot develops in random, get-to-the-next-action-scene fashion, meaning that not much makes sense after a while.Cast should be a give away that this wasn't going to be anything more than a weak teen-orientated fluff piece. While we do have the gravitas of such great performers as Sigourney Weaver and Alfred Molina, we also have the talentless Taylor Lautner in the lead role. Clearly just there for his muscles and to get the moronic Twilight fans to watch the movie, he really doesn't help the movie. What little credibility it had disappeared once he was cast and he lives up to the reputation, giving a very wooden performance. Lily Collins plays the love interest and puts in a solid performance, especially considering the (weak) material she had to work with.Sad that John Singleton's career has come to this. Considering that he directed Boyz n the Hood and Higher Learning, two great social commentaries, this movie is truly beneath him.

Taylor Lautner, to start with, who is best known as Jacob in Twilight, offers a pleasantly surprising role that shows his depth of character (meaning, he's not acting when he plays this part; he's sharing himself as one who's experienced what his character portrays.The movie, itself, has a solid plot, and the Director should be commended for successfully capturing us as an audience and in the way he chose to capture us by relating. It had this subtle hold on me, and I found I just didn't want to even pause it for a moment. This is a rare surprise, 'cause it's been awhile since a movie was that good and riveting. Best of all? You get to watch a total hulk become a man, in a tender, moving storyline, while blending the thrill of watching "Men in Action". Great movie!