Abduction Reviews

Movie Reviews

• we've got the aforementioned Sigourney Weaver as a psychiatrist and/or secret agent with a bouquet of balloons

  by Andrew O'Hehir [Salon.com ]

• they also can be achingly sweet and vulnerable and protective - and shirtless, when appropriate

  by Glenn Whipp [Los Angeles Times ]

• the movie stops in its tracks long enough to ogle an extended smooch whose slurping seems scientifically calculated to take things to the brink of an R rating

  by Stephen Holden [New York Times ]

• the direction is excellent, and that's the real puzzler in this tricky little game

  by Stephen Whitty [Newark Star-Ledger ]

• preferable to the movie of the same name, but only if your kidnappers don't tor ture you by forcing you to watch it

  by Kyle Smith [New York Post ]

• made off with the plot and replaced it with a laughably predictable PG baby spy drama riddled with flat dialogue and aimed squarely at teen girls and their wallets

  by Linda Barnard [Toronto Star ]

• looking very much like a stranger in his own performance

  by Benjamin Mercer [Village Voice ]

• it feels like a movie designed to ride on the back of Twilight's phenomenal success, with held noses and paycheques all around

  by Liam Lacey [Globe and Mail ]

• he's not a terrible actor, but if he wants a career after the Twilight fades, he'll pick better films

  Review rate : C by Owen Gleiberman [Entertainment Weekly ]

• for a guy who alternately got to play crusader, hunk, and sidekick in his signature role, "Abduction'' is a stock gig, but Nyqvist makes the most of it

  by Tom Russo [Boston Globe ]

• filled with laughable dialogue, Abduction goes nowhere

  by Claudia Puig [USA Today ]

• falls in the same corner of the youth market as the "Twilight" movies

  by Roger Moore [Orlando Sentinel ]

• but if you think he's hot and this is crazy, then he's here to party.

  by Joe Neumaier [New York Daily News ]

• also features a fight on a train that may have been inspired by the classic one in From Russia with Love, but it's hard to tell

  by James Berardinelli [ReelViews ]

• Abduction just seems silly from here through to the finale, a complicated set-piece staged at Pittsburgh's scenic PNC Park during an actual Pirates-Mets game last year

  by Todd McCarthy [Hollywood Reporter ]

• a haggardly slapdash "Bourne Identity" knockoff, never rising above the level of basic competence. Lautner's fans should line up in droves; other demos may go missing

  by Andrew Barker [Variety ]

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