Abduction (2011)

Great Film overall

As Good As It Gets

It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...

Great story, amazing characters, superb action, enthralling cinematography. Yes, this is something I am glad I spent money on.

>>>>>>I have NOT included any spoilers.<<<<<< What a lousy movie; I fast-forwarded through most of it. A bunch of stupid, puerile teens in a film with a hole-filled storyline. Bad acting, bad sound, bad direction, bad cinematography... you name it, it was BAD! Oh yeah, there were several good-looking young girls, but most young girls are good looking with the clothes and makeup they put on to emohasise their best parts and adorn themseles. The raucous, irritating music probably appeals to some mindless kinds these days, usual crap. A deeply disappointing movie in all respects. Don't bother with it. 2/10 because there are in fact worse films than this crud.

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

Usually I pay attention to average ratings on IMDb, but I broke my own habits to watch director John Singleton's terrible "Abduction". I figured how bad could it be....turns out VERY bad. Here's a movie that is tamed down in action obviously for rating reasons, but even worse, it has the most out-of-place poor music choices to accompany those toned-down action sequences. Sigourney Weaver must have been up for some easy money - how on earth she picked this turd was quite surprising. This movie is a failure and moldy cheesy in scene after scene. It deserves the truly rotten ratings that it's been afforded. It never fails to amaze how filmmakers will water projects down in attempts to pander. Poor and not worth a watch.

Ha, in reading all the reviews, this movie is hated. I actually kind of liked it once I put myself into the mindset of a fourteen year old girl and just went along for the ride. Sure its just a showcase for Taylor Lautner, and sure his acting is pretty terrible but I enjoyed the story of a teen who discovers the parents who raised him aren't his real folks, triggering events that leave him running for his life and pretending he's in a Jason Bourne movie.I thought the action scenes were pretty good (despite the plot holes) No one can say that Taylor isn't at least... athletic. There was also a great back up cast of talent including Sigourney Weaver, Jason Isaacs, Maria Bello and Alfred Molina.I'll admit the romance/kissing scenes were very awkward but I did enjoy how the audience didn't know who to trust either until the very end. Kinda twisty. 5/30/14