Abduction [DVD]

This film is obviously a show vehicle for Taylor Lautner and Twihards won't be disappointeed by the amount of screentime he gets but he only takes his shirt off briefly at the beginning. As one forum has debated at length there is no abduction as such in this film, it should really have been called 'Relocation' but of course that doesn't have a ring to it.
Basically Lautner is 18 year old Nathan Price, a high school boy who lives with his parents in suburbia and has an unrequited love for the girl opposite. Dad is a real go-getter and relentlously trains his son to be fit and fight. Nathan and the love interest are thrown together by a school project and whilst researching he discovers that his cosy life may not be all that he thinks. He contacts a missing person website and next thing armed men come looking for him and his life goes to pot as he goes on the run trying to discover the truth about who he is. Having been trained to fight all his life he does better than the average school kid obviously. From there it goes pretty much to formula as both the CIA and some Eastern European bad guys pursue our hero.
Lautner is a competent action hero though he falls short on emotion and Lily Collins is sweet as his love interest. The blu ray print is perfect although it is in letter box format and the soundtrack is 7.1 although I can't say I really noticed any audible action behind me.
This film is nowhere near as bad as some reviews have made out, its a competent action thriller and made an enjoyable 90 minutes viewing.

I can't really understand why people don't like this film. I went to see it with my teenaged daughter in the cinema and she loved it so I bought her this DVD and she must have watched it at least 10 times. I like the film too, I think it's a bit different and Taylor Lautner isn't that bad of an actor.

Abduction starts out in what seems like a normal American Teen High School flick, following Nathan (Taylor Lautner -Twilight) , his friends Gilly (Denzel Whitaker -Great Debaters) & Jake (William Peltz -Abduction) having a blast & getting drunk, what High School kids do. However in his Social studies class he is paired up with his summer love Karen (Lily Collins -Mirror Mirror[Snow White]Trivia: She is the Daughter of singer Phil Collins) , and as they research at Nathans parents home, Kevin (Jason Isaccs -The Patriot) & Mara (Maria Bello -A History Of Violence), they start looking at websites about missing children, and Karen stumbles across a picture of a small boy who looks really like Nathan.

As Nathan investigates further, his World is soon turned upside down as those he loves are put in danger, can he make sense of it all & manage to survive ?! one thing is for sure, he is going to have to grow up quick!

Overall after the initial slow build up i thought Abduction was an enjoyable Bubblegum for the brain Thriller, it managed to keep me guessing about who was on who's side, so it really had me fooled in places, where i started to suspect everyone. The acting talent on show is of a high calibre, a good mixture of experience with the likes of Sigourney Weaver (Alien) , Alfred Molina (The Sorcerer's Apprentice) , Michael Nyqvist (The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo) & Jason Issacs etc.. and the youthfull talents of Lilly Collins & Denzel Whitaker, Taylor Lautner(his abs guest staring) was alright but not a patch on the others. It was reasonabley well filmed for the most part, although some of the action sequences & special affects were a bit low budget tbh and obviously so, it detracted a little, but not enough to ruin the experience.

In Conclusion, if you stick with it past the the slow build up, you will be rewarded with a decent Thriller, it's not World beating, like Lautner's so, so performance, but enjoyable to pass the time. i wont mind watching this a few more times myself. Reccomended.