Review by Lucia Santiago Dantes
Although the first 15 minutes of “Abduction” is a celebration on shirtless Taylor Lautner perfect body extravaganza (to the joy of Team Jacob) the thriller is not as bad as I thought it would be. In this film, Lautner portrays Nathan, a reckless high school boy who has not other job than having fun at school, play sports and interlock eyes with his platonic love and neighbor Karen (Lily Collins) until one day while doing a school assignment at home with Karen, he finds his baby photo on a missing children website. Nathan confused and shocked he tries to find out more about his true identity through the website’s chat but ends up on the run with Karen. For some reason the movie reminds me the plots of Alfred Hitchcock’s movies where he used to play with the idea of the innocence of the guilthy like North by Northwest and To catch a Thief. But also the plot’s points of The Bourne Identity (2002) where an agent with amnesia teams up with a girl also on the run. Same idea, but Abduction seems to be targeted to younger audiences with way too much focus on Lautner, to the point it starts to be annoying. The movie survives thanks to the fast, and snappy chase sequences that keeps the story going and without giving out too much information to the audience too soon.
Although the first 15 minutes of “Abduction” is a celebration on shirtless Taylor Lautner perfect body extravaganza (to the joy of Team Jacob) the thriller is not as bad as I thought it would be. In this film, Lautner portrays Nathan, a reckless high school boy who has not other job than having fun at school, play sports and interlock eyes with his platonic love and neighbor Karen (Lily Collins) until one day while doing a school assignment at home with Karen, he finds his baby photo on a missing children website. Nathan confused and shocked he tries to find out more about his true identity through the website’s chat but ends up on the run with Karen. For some reason the movie reminds me the plots of Alfred Hitchcock’s movies where he used to play with the idea of the innocence of the guilthy like North by Northwest and To catch a Thief. But also the plot’s points of The Bourne Identity (2002) where an agent with amnesia teams up with a girl also on the run. Same idea, but Abduction seems to be targeted to younger audiences with way too much focus on Lautner, to the point it starts to be annoying. The movie survives thanks to the fast, and snappy chase sequences that keeps the story going and without giving out too much information to the audience too soon.
Directed by John Singleton, written by Shawn Christensen.
Also in this movie: Maria Bello, Sigourney Weaver and Alfred Molina.
