Abduction does little for Twilight's Taylor Lautner as he becomes a fish-out-of-water in this Bourne Identity-mirroring movie.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 24, 2018

The holes in the film's twist-filled story are often so big you could almost squeeze Lautner's sex appeal through them.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Oct 18, 2011

The film's Pittsburgh location is used to nice effect but little else about the movie rings true.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Sep 30, 2011

Some movies are hard to spoof.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 30, 2011

Sigourney Weaver? After Avatar, surely she doesn't need the cash?

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 29, 2011

When Taylor Lautner is the least of a movie's problems, be afraid.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Sep 29, 2011

While the ultra-banal dialogue draws the occasional titter, the action scenes are tame and it's rife with plot holes that you could navigate a burning blimp through.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 27, 2011

The movie is a more objective opportunity to assess Lautner's potential as a general-purpose action hero once his emo-goth run wraps. You might not want to go betting on that one.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Sep 26, 2011

A blockhead espionage thriller from director-for-hire John Singleton (Boyz N the Hood).

| Sep 25, 2011

Singleton once radiated ambition and vision. These days, he seems to be aiming for mediocrity at best. Even by those extraordinarily lenient standards, the inessential, perfunctory Abduction falls short.

| Original Score: C- | Sep 23, 2011

Sadly, it's impossible to fake the faintest enthusiasm for this picture, which is a fourth-rate Hollywood thriller that bungles a lot of thievery from better movies.

Full Review | Sep 23, 2011

He gets to find love, kick some ass, and even kill some bad guys. And all of it is very, very silly.

| Original Score: 1.5/5.0 | Sep 23, 2011

Whether the fault was haste or cynicism, Abduction feels like a movie designed to ride on the back of Twilight's phenomenal success, with held noses and paycheques all around.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Sep 23, 2011

The finale sets up a sequel but if Singleton is on board, I suspect they'll have to pay the supporting cast a mountain of money to make up for the embarrassment of taking part.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Sep 23, 2011

[Lautner's] not a terrible actor, but if he wants a career after the Twilight fades, he'll pick better films.

| Original Score: C | Sep 23, 2011

A ridiculously cheesy confection filled with unthrilling thrills, bored-looking adults and a comically overstuffed backstory.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Sep 23, 2011

Twi-Hards shall attend en masse. Adults shall roll their eyes. And on our human comedy shall go.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Sep 23, 2011

"Abduction" is just the third movie John Singleton has directed in the past decade, and it contains neither the passion nor the competence of his two previous genre efforts - "2 Fast 2 Furious" and "Four Brothers."

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 23, 2011

Actual abduction may be preferable to the movie of the same name, but only if your kidnappers don't torture you by forcing you to watch it.

| Original Score: 0.5/4 | Sep 23, 2011

Lautner appears as stiff and confused as a middle-school kid caught unprepared in the school play.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Sep 22, 2011