Abduction

I seriously considered writing off this movie and not posting about it, it is sort of embarrassing to admit to watching, but I promised myself I would post about every new movie I view, so here it is:

Going into this film I knew I had no love for Taylor Lautner, but I find it hard to resist the draw of any movie where "action" can be counted as one of its genres.  However, I seem to be on a roll here cause Abduction was just about as bad as Conan.  This Lautner guy is a really terrible actor!  You can clearly see the struggle on his face as he tries to decide if the acting moment calls for "angry face" or "sad face", or one of the three other face-options he has in his retinue.

But shoddy teenie-bopper acting aside, the rest of the movie did not hold up either.  Most noticeably, it appeared to be directed and edited by a first-year film student.  An untalented first-year film student.  John Singleton may have pulled it off for Shaft and Four Brothers, but seriously dropped the ball on this movie.  Maybe once he realized what he had signed on for, and who with, he figured no one would watch the dang thing anyway...