Movies: Abduction

Movies: Abduction

INTRODUCTION


For those uninformed, this is an action flick, that talks about... according to wikipedia,

When teenager Nathan Price (Taylor Lautner) finds a picture of himself on a missing persons website, he discovers that the people (Jason Isaacs andMaria Bello) he thought were his parents were really assigned to protect him from the government. Nathan and his neighbor/love interest Karen Lowell (Lily Collins) go on the run, but he eventually decides to track down the people responsible.

So... in case that doesnt entice you enough... maybe this picture will

OH MY?!?!?! ITS HIM ITS JACOB BLACK?!?!?!..

Interested to see the show already? How about looking at his nice toned upper body? Yep its there in this show. No shape shifting though, but on the bright side, there is no vampires in this show either.. no sparkly glowing shiny vampires.

So this show falls into the genre of action, so its supposed to be all exciting and stuff right??

IF IT WAS WHY DID I FALL ASLEEP SEEING THIS SHOW?!?!?

So from this introduction you probably could guess how the review is going to end, but if you are fans of that fella whose face up there in the poster, my review is probably not going to affect your decision in anyway.

Plot


The plot tries to differentiate itself from the common movie by starting off as a person who is not born and bred as a spy right from the scratch. It doesn't focus on the traditional carrying out of missions but rather based the show on survival of the person.

Its a plausible idea  to show the maturing or growing up of the child and trying to merge it into an action show but to be honest, i feel that this show fails on both accounts. The action is lack luster compared to shows of today and the story line is not really that engaging.


Character


The main character gets a bit of character development, but this show makes the mistake of introducing a few other characters like the girlfriend, some other cop, but not really doing anything with them hence making them shallow and not really integral to the story line. Especially the girlfriend which seems to exist merely as a way to fulfill the gender quota of the show or something.

The star's past acting in twilight doesn't help him much also as through out the show i half expected him to transform into a werewolf and do some massive killing.

The villain of the show also seems to be pretty unconvincing in the end as he seems to have no real villain training and seems overall pretty weak and disappointing in the end.


Cinematography


To be honest, this show tries slightly to put in some pretty good shots but in the end, they merely have maybe about 2 or 3 bursts of interesting use of perspectives but thats about it. It is also nothing particularly great or unique for the genre.


Music


As usual music is alright for the show, not excelling but not hindering the show either.


Spectacle


In terms of the action genre, this show doesn't really reach the standard of the current day movies with most of the scenes being overly cliche and nothing special. This show does try to be slightly funnier then the usual action flick but still it doesn't really leave any special or lasting impression.

Overall


Plot                        : 3 (Tries to join two concepts together, doesn't do well in either)
Character               : 3 (Not much lateral development, hardly any feeling for any of them)
Cinematography      : 3 (Tries but all cliche styles that are not done real well either)
Music                      : 3 (Standard score)
Spectacle                 : 3.5 (At least it tries to be slightly funnier then the usual show....)

Overall                    : 3.1 (Overall a pretty lackluster show, only real great fans of the genre, OR that guy might find this entertaining.)

See it at your own peril but i would rather if u like that actor guy, keep urself from this show to not let ur impression of him get worse.