Touches You

If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.

Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

A thriller centered on a young man who sets out to uncover the truth about his life after finding his baby photo on a missing persons website. Abduction is one of those films that is pretty easy to hate especially for the leading actor Taylor Lautner who in my opinion did a pretty decent job especially with the fight sequences mostly during the fight training in his house and the train fight plus he knows martial arts so that's something, Lily Collins is kinda annoying at times i mean i didn't hate her character or the actress herself but it feels like she could have been cut out of the film and it still wouldn't change a thing. Now where the movie kinda lost me was with the pacing which at times it dragged a lot and i feel like the director tried to focus a lot more in Lautner rather than the rest of the Cast that has more experience and better acting chops than him and i was very disappointed with the fact that Jason Isaacs and Maria Bello were killed so early in the film i mean their characters were pretty interesting and when things started becoming even more interesting they just die? And then Sigourney Weaver shows up to help Nathan and Karen holding some balloons basically a rip- off scene from Eraser starring Arnold Schwarzenegger but even the lack of originality still the movie had some interesting things into it like the whole background of Nathan and his Father and speaking of hid dad? Dermot Mulroney shows up and they have this weird shots on his mouth and his eyes like the audience it's so stupid to not recognize such a famous actor like him. Overall if you count out the fact that it kills or basically disappears many famous actors and it lacks some more development within it's own plot Abduction is still a fun film to basically kill your free time and i did enjoy Lautner in the movie he isn't amazing but he isn't that awful either, the train scene is pretty cool and the late Michael Nyqvist alongside Alfred Molina do a pretty good job although their roles are limited their far bigger than Weaver's or Isaacs. (7/10)

I see a lot of negative reviews these days. Why can't people just watch a movie without analyzing every little detail. Try to remember what industry movies fall into; entertainment. If you watch it to be entertained,then have fun. Your review is a personal opinion, as is this one. I will not be deterred from seeing something just because somebody says they didn't like it. That said, it was a good overall movie. I was entertained. The first 20 minutes was a bit slow, but after that it pulled me in. I didn't focus on the acting & rarely do. It was fun. My 17 yr old granddaughter streamed it & I just happened to be in the room. We both enjoyed it & had some good interaction with certain parts, like when Sigourney's car explodes & when the house exploded. I liked the international aspect of it. Everybody was after him. I think the name is a bit deceiving as I was waiting for somebody to actually get abducted. Being raised by CIA agents for protection is far from that. Good intense movie with some good twists. The movie did what it set out to do.

This movie is actually not all that bad. There are certain points in fact, that gave me goose bumps... Like when Martin called Nathan and said; "Because I'm here son"... However, this movie contains a lot of Adult Themes, given the fact that the stars are supposedly in high school. It doesn't quite have that innocence it's supposed to have within all that chaos, you know, like with Transformers for example. For instance; where and how does a high school kid have the necessary connections, to have a loaded gun duct-taped to the bottom of a seat in a stadium? Also, the near sex scene, who's allure you could even feel approaching, long before the scene itself, because the movie's tone, is of kids doing adult stuff. This isn't really a complaint, and I don't really have a problem with it... It's just that, I wonder if it diminishes the intended complexion of the movie perhaps, and also... You ask yourself; Why wasn't this script given to adults in the 1st place?!Lautner's acting has never been the best, so that's a minus, which is unfortunate for him - because this movie had a story line worthy of making this Lautner's "Taken"/"007"/"Bourne". However I have to say, Lautner's athleticism impressed me. Certain parts of the movie didn't flow, especially in the beginning, and I wish they would've kept Martin's identity a secret... That would've worked wonders for suspense and a successful sequel... While we're busy asking, "Who is Martin", the studio has made room for it to be perhaps, Gerald Butler/Jason Statham/anyone else, who can live up to the hype.Anyway, Sigourney Weaver and Alfred Molina were necessary talents, who brought some firmness, to what was otherwise, a flimsy, though still, not all that bad, action thriller.5.8/10... Maybe even 6.

Ha, in reading all the reviews, this movie is hated. I actually kind of liked it once I put myself into the mindset of a fourteen year old girl and just went along for the ride. Sure its just a showcase for Taylor Lautner, and sure his acting is pretty terrible but I enjoyed the story of a teen who discovers the parents who raised him aren't his real folks, triggering events that leave him running for his life and pretending he's in a Jason Bourne movie.I thought the action scenes were pretty good (despite the plot holes) No one can say that Taylor isn't at least... athletic. There was also a great back up cast of talent including Sigourney Weaver, Jason Isaacs, Maria Bello and Alfred Molina.I'll admit the romance/kissing scenes were very awkward but I did enjoy how the audience didn't know who to trust either until the very end. Kinda twisty. 5/30/14