Film Review - Abduction

When Alfred Hitchcock made North By Northwest, it was basically an excuse for the various exciting set-pieces to appear in one film, and the plot was incidental. Somehow, it worked. That template has been used by Hollywood ever since, ad infinitum, with varying degrees of success (Mr. Bond, I'm looking at you in particular).

Abduction is one example when it doesn't work. It's basically an excuse to get Taylor Lautner to fight, run/ jump/ slide around, fire guns, and snog; shirt optional. All of which he does rather well.

But the story supposedly tying it all together puts the "guff" into "MacGuffin". Ten seconds into the action and I wanted every immature irresponsible "character" on-screen to get some kind of hideous comeuppance. Unfortunately, that fate was destined to be mine.

Okay, so the action scenes are well-done, and Sigourney Weaver & Jason Isaacs are welcome on my cinema screen any time. Lautner does an adequate job with what he's been given, but it's far from the new Bourne. But at least it's not as bad as the similarly-premised Hanna.


(c) SRW 2011. All opinions are mine. If you like what you read, all the better; if not, other opinions are available.