TWILIGHT beefcake Taylor Lautner strikes out on his own in the action-packed thriller Abduction, in which he attempts to prove he’s much more than a pretty face with washboard abs.
Alas, he’s picked a dud.
High school student Nathan Harper (Lautner) thinks he has the perfect life with his caring parents. Yet something is amiss.
While researching a school project on missing children, Nathan discovers he bears an uncanny resemblance to a boy who went missing years ago.
Before Nathan has a chance to learn the truth from his parents, assassins slay them and the teenager goes on the run with best friend Gilly.
Then shadowy CIA Agent Burton (Alfred Molina) makes contact with Nathan and warns the teenager that he is a pawn in a dastardly plot.
Abduction is utter nonsense from hormone- fuelled beginning to end.
Lautner is likeable and easy on the eye, but there is nothing in the script to test his acting mettle or to suggest his character has any real emotional depth.
