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ABDUCTION (2011) Movie review by David Blackwell
106 minutes, rated PG-13 ASPECT
RATIO: 2.35:1 STUDIO: Lionsgate/ Gotham Group/ Quick Six Entertainment/ Tailor Made/ Vertigo Entertainment Theatrical
RELEASE DATE: 9-23-2011
STARRING Taylor Lautner, Lily Collins, Michael Nyqvist, Jason Isaacs,
Alfred Molina, Maria Bello, and Sigourney Weaver WRITTEN by Shawn Christensen DIRECTED by John Singleton
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I think director
John Singleton is smoking his own press too much in what he believes will be the first of new franchise. Instead we
get a sappy action thriller which is trying to be cliched teenage drama mixed with a Bourne-type action thriller. Let's discuss the
opening of Taylor Lautner riding on the hood of a truck as he urges his friends to drive faster, then
they end up at the party where Taylor exchanges engaging glances with the girl who wants him before getting truck and ending
up shirtless the next morning on the lawn after a night of teenage drinking. His father picks him up and a male pissing
match of boxing and kicking begins. Cue next where Taylor who plays Nathan is partnered with so-called crush, Karen
(Lily Collins) on a midterm paper on missing children. He comes across what he believes is a kid that is him. He
contacts the site and next he knows he is on the run with Karen as Nathan uncovers the truth about his past and
his real father.
ABDUCTION tries to play itself as stilted teenage romance drama, a film that caters to
the shirtless Taylor fan brigade from the Twilight films, and an action film with some so-so action scenes which entertain
and yet I have seen better staged scenes in Asian action films (and the Bourne films and the recent James Bond films).
Sigourney Weaver suffers through bad dialogue and horrible direction in the few scenes where she is Nathan's
psychologist. A gang of Russian criminals led by
Michael Nyqvist lead the chase after Nathan along with a team of CIA agents commanded by Burton (Alfred Molina) who must get
to Nathan before the Russians do. It goes on like, blah blah blah with bad dialogue, weak character development, stop
romantic action with two leads before it gets too steamy, and a father you only hear (and barely glimpse). It is supposed to be
a starring vehicle for Lautner and only ends up as bad action dreck that MTV might air or the CW would pass on. ABDUCTION
is a skip, wait for the DVD, and go see Jason Statham chair fight in KILLER ELITE like I'm going too next week. I have
a feeling that the action scenes in KILLER ELITE, and the presence of Statam with Clive Owen and Robert DeNiro will
outweigh the forgettable halfway entertaining ABDUCTION which is teenage action crap that shouldn't have been made (I rather
see a sequel to I AM NUMBER FOUR instead of a a sequel to ABDUCTION).
this movie
review is (c)9-24-2011 David Blackwell and cannot be reprinted without permission. send all comments to feedback@enterline-media.com
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