Movie: Abduction

Thanks to CLEO Singapore and GV, I was able to catch the preview of Abduction 2 days prior to its public sales. Who else to bring an action sequence to other than Jack the willing partner? When I had informed him a week ago that I was bringing him to watch Abduction, his first reply on MSN was:

"Taylor Lautner. -_-"

Lautner carries out his first main act on the silver screen with the character Nathan Harper, a young man who chances upon his childhood photo on a 'Missing Persons' website while researching on a school project with his classmate/childhood crush Karen (played by Lily Collins). When his 'parents' are murdered before his eyes, Nathan skips town with Karen and embark on a journey to discover who his real parents are, and why he's being hunted down by both sides of the law.


While Lautner aced his action sequences with his agility and physique, he still has vast room for improvement in terms of emoting the character he plays; the bursts of anger displayed a midst retrospective accounts could be better enacted (c'mon, where's the werewolf?), especially when Lautner's character is built fundamentally on his issue with anger management. By saying this, I was expecting more blood, more sweat, less talk, more jumping down crazy heights (without spraining his ankle), more ... Or maybe I had been expecting too much out of a PG film at the beginning, conveniently forgetting the fact that a majority of Lautner's (and Collins') fans are possibly pre-pubescent. Shucks.

Oh, and have I told you how Lily Collins' eyebrows totally jumped out at me?

Her features are very sharp and she's one amazingly pretty girl. But she really has got to do something to those brows. Oh, and do shed that "Phil Collins' daughter" label. Not very appealing, especially when it does nothing to acting skills.

Overall, I believe the action genre is the way to go for Lautner if he wants to make it far in his acting career and shed the ugly label of "the shirtless werewolf in Twilight".

I give this movie 2.9/5.

And I didn't say anything about his abs.

:P