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5 out of 12 people found the following review useful:
Huh???, 28 September 2011
Author: jackarute from Austin, TX

Those dumbfounded by the 3.6 dumbfound me. How they got an A-list supporting cast and director for this turd of a movie also dumbfounds me. One the reviews(maybe more) mentioned how it was just attempt to cash in on the whole Twilight/Lautner phenomena. That seems to be the best/only explanation that has any merit. It should be clear to anyone that Taylor Lautner cannot act. To put it nicely, you could say he has a very limited range, but within that range no dialogue is spoken. It's a couple of facial expressions and a pose. Putting Taylor aside, the movie is listless and meandering. I didn't ever get drawn into the story or develop any attachment to the characters, good or bad. So I will assign some blame to the screen writing. Really it would take much too long to write a professional critique, but I think to say this is not a good movie (even on a rainy day) will suffice. I suppose I will just be labeled as a hater, but I at least wanted to do my part in offsetting any inflation in the ranking due to some ass clown giving this movie a 10. That's not to say my rating is artificial. In my opinion this movie is awful, but normally I would not take the time to review a 1.

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6 out of 14 people found the following review useful:
Quality action film, 8 October 2011
Author: drla62 from United Kingdom

I thought this was an excellent film overall: well acted, well chosen cast, good story-line and a good balance of action and drama.

I found the story-line was intriguing from early into the film and the actors felt convincing in their roles.

There are some moments where the film lacks a little credibility, but not so much as to ruin the film in anyway.

I believe there will be many more opportunities for Lautner to follow up with similar, action-type roles. In my view his acting was generally really plausible - at times brilliant!

I would definitely recommend watching it.

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7 out of 16 people found the following review useful:
Not an Oscar contender, but not all that bad either, 8 October 2011

Author: redmaxdrive from United States

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I can't say that I went into this thinking it was Oscar material. I knew that it was most likely a pretty brainless piece of action fluff, but I went because I'm a fan of the main star and I wanted to watch something that didn't require too much intellectual involvement on my part. In that regard, Abduction succeeded admirably. While the acting could've been better, the action sequences were top-notch; I especially liked the parts where Taylor was able to use his martial-arts skills to near-lethal advantage. And Sigourney Weaver did more than I thought possible with her rather limited screen time. That's how good an actress she is. As for Mr. Lautner, I do believe that he has a bright future in action movies; he just needs a little more seasoning before the next time. To any moviegoers reading this: I urge you to ignore whatever negative comments you may have heard and give this one a shot. It may surprise you.

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10 out of 22 people found the following review useful:
amazing film, 8 October 2011
Author: llewellyn-adderley from United Kingdom

What an amazing film. It was so good that i watched it twice at the cinema. This film has action and romance rolled into one, it's packed with action, kept me on the edge of my seat. Taylor show's off his acting abilities, move over Jason Statham here comes Taylor, this guy is going to be the next big action star. This is the way to go action all the way. As for Lilly another great actress can't wait to see more from her.

The rest of the cast were great. The casting list was spot on. I love watching Jason Isaacs and Maria Bello great acting abilities.

I strongly recommend that you watch this film at the cinema, great effects. One for all the family. I give it an 8/10 star rating.

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12 out of 26 people found the following review useful:
***Good film for all family***, 5 October 2011

Author: michelle_slaymaker from United Kingdom

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Really good film that keeps you on the edge of your seat. Some excellent stunt work AND SOME COMICAL BITS TOO :) Not just a girlie film for girls to drool over Taylor, my 42 year old fiancé loved this film too and we are going again. Definitely RECOMMEND :)))))) Great film for all the family. Great for Taylor fans Great for action film fans Great for young guys too (Lily Collins and other beautiful girls :) This film has some good twists and turns! Trying not to say too much and give away the plot because I hate it when people do that!!! ENJOY!!! PLOT: About a teenager that finds a photo of himself as a baby on a missing persons website and he needs to find out the truth about his life, has it all been a lie???????????

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13 out of 28 people found the following review useful:
Chix Chat on Film review: Abduction, A young man's discovery into his past., 25 September 2011
Author: Emma Dinkins (emmadinkins@chixchatonfilm.com) from Texas, United States

Shouldn't a movie entitled Abduction have at minimum one actual abduction? Perhaps the name is a metaphor and I simply missed when the metaphor was defined. Nathan (Taylor Lautner) as seen in the trailer makes a startling discovery that he is on a missing children's website. I found it interesting enough how that discovery came about, and figured that it was plausible enough to just go with it. However, I did not find it plausible how his discovery was validated, just a little bit too convenient. I appreciated the hand to hand combat scenes they step up the excitement in action films, it just goes to show that if you use an actor who has had years of training in some martial arts, that training will come across very convincingly on screen. And the story was kept realistic by Karen (Lily Collins) having absolutely no fighting prowess what so ever. And speaking of Karen, I was just not convinced that she would continue to go along for the ride as long as she did, even though her reasoning was discussed as far as why she was not just going back home and out of Nathan's dilemma. I liked this film, I felt that John Singleton did a great job directing it and keeping a steady pace. I have always liked his directing style as far back as Boyz n the Hood. It was also nice to see some veteran actors who always deliver the goods like Agent Burton (Alfred Molina) as the task force lead for the CIA and Dr. Bennett (Sigourney Weaver) pulling off not just a heady shrink, but also some pretty fancy driving. The adult story lines served to round out the cast with some very solid acting, and that includes Nathan's parents Mara (Maria Bello) and Kevin (Jason Isaacs). I think that the film did a good job of unfolding the background of how this whole thing came to pass, it had sufficient action and the teenagers had the intelligence level I expected, they weren't dumb as a bag of rocks but they made mistakes, in some cases the same kind of mistakes over and over, and they did not hold conversations like Harvard graduates. I liked Dawson's Creek when it was on TV, but come on teenagers don't really use words like 'existential'. This film is not what I would call a must see, but it is definitely worth checking out, it gets a green light. - Emma Dinkins

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0 out of 3 people found the following review useful:
yaaaaaawwwn :), 25 December 2012

Author: mitrapourmand from Iran

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the movie is about some kid trying to find out who he really is because his parents are not his real parents haven't we all seen tones of movies with the same storyline? oh and by the way the same kid is on a run from bas guys be cause he has a chip or something which has a lot of names on it and the dirty CIA agents want it as well yawn.... yawn..... oh and i forgot he has a crush on some girl.thats it ,thats all there is to this movie ,and i gave it 4 stars simply be cause of the mum and dad character who are super cool . the rest is bullshit : a very young boy bitting the crap out of full grown supposedly dangerous men :) why because he did some boxing traing with his fake dad ;). ps : T.L stinks as an actor

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0 out of 3 people found the following review useful:
not bad i guess.... not that impressed, 1 October 2011
Author: kallin-efremidis from Australia

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i watched this with a couple of girls, they thought this movie was AMAAAZING, but i wasn't that impressed.

the atmosphere in the movie was good, it wasdramatic and the mystery at the beginning was intriguing! but when we finally learnt the truth about everything, i was very unimpressed, not to mention the many flaws within the movies AND the acting was quiiiiite mediocre, i wasn;t very happy with that.

i liked some of the characters, but didn't feel that sympathetic for them, by halfway i wasn't really caring about what happened, and it was very predictable, "mystery father saves the day!!" fairly boring ending.

but, it was a fun watch, i enjoyed it, if you're not too ffussy and want a bit of a mystery movie, i would recommend it, especially if you;re easily pleased.

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0 out of 3 people found the following review useful:
Chix Chat on Film Reviews Abduction, 30 September 2011
Author: Catt Jones (cattjones@chixchatonfilm.com) from TX, United States

It is really good to see John Singleton getting back in the mix; I am just not sure if this was the way to go. I think that the last films that I saw from him were 2 Fast, 2 Furious and Four Brothers which were far better films than this one by a country mile. I have to say that I think that John did a so-so job with this film. Undoubtedly, Twilight fans will flock to see this film just to get another look at those gorgeous abs and Lautner followers will not be disappointed in that. I am not sure why I expected this film to be about kidnapping….. maybe it was the name… hmmmm. I am not saying that it wasn't about kidnapping, but I am not saying that it was either. Since we do not give out plot lines, I guess you will just have to go and see it for yourself. Okay, so on to the actors; Taylor Lautner (Nathan) is really going to appeal to the "tweens", however his effort to spread his wings into another genre of film was lack-luster. I am not saying that it's entirely his fault because some of the dialog was juvenile and uninteresting. Lily Collins (Karen) who you may remember as Collins Tuohy in The Blind Side was charming and will give teenage boys a reason to go and see this film. I have to say that Denzel Whitaker (Gilly) slimmed out nicely since his appearance in The Great Debaters. He added some much needed comic relief to the film (unfortunately there was not enough of it). The casting of Sigourney Weaver as Dr. Bennett was the only thing that really made sense. I have gotten used to seeing her as a strong female and she does not disappoint in this film. To wrap things up, this is not the worst film that I've seen this year, however it is swimming near the bottom of the pack. The end of the film hints at a sequel and I guess it doesn't matter what the critics say, it's all about the numbers ($$$). This is one of those instances when I wish that we had a light between amber and red. The film did make you want to know how things turns out and for that reason and that reason alone, I am going with an amber light.

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1 out of 5 people found the following review useful:
money?!?, 14 May 2012

Author: oneaba from Bosnia and Herzegovina

The worst movie of the decade and I know Im not exaggerating even though I haven't seen all. I though artist should make movies and not the rich people who want their kids to become famous. After all it was supposed to be the 7th art. I have never posted a review here before so I needed to blow of some steem, please don't hold it against me. Acting sucks and the only moments you do not feel like loosing IQ points is when Sigourney Weaver is on the screen. When you add directing with a meet cleaver, it just stings the brain. I could write a few dozen lines about whats wrong but to what end.

Here is a little something to wrap this up. Nickola's neck tattoo was supposed to be "vidimo se u čitulji" (only in Cyrillic) and the "Č" of the "čitulji" is written in Latin alphabet. "Vidimo se u čitulji" means "see you in the obituary" and it was a TV show about Belgrades mobsters.

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