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 (www.imdb.com).
Director: John Singleton (Boyz n the Hood, 2 Fast 2 Furious, Four Brothers)
Starring: Taylor Lautner, Lily Collins, Alfred Molina, Maria Bello, Jason Isaacs, Michael Nyqvist, Denzel Whitaker, Sigourney Weaver
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.
1/5
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