RAN­DALL SUMAIRS­INGH

Have you ever felt like a stranger in your own life? In the movie Ab­duc­tion, Nathan Harp­er (Tay­lor Laut­ner) learns that this feel­ing can have some dan­ger­ous truth to it. In ad­dress to the male pop­u­la­tion-don't as­so­ciate this movie with the Twi­light se­ries. Even though I am well aware that many het­ero­sex­u­al men still en­joy the Twi­light saga, I'm just say­ing that for those who don't-don't stereo­type the film be­cause of its star­ring ac­tor. I am al­so aware that many fe­males (most­ly teenaged girls) may view the movie sim­ply be­cause of Tay­lor Laut­ner, but that is on­ly to be ex­pect­ed.

A syn­op­sis

Ab­duc­tion is about a boy named Nathan who is in his late teens. Be­sides be­ing a cham­pi­on on his high-school wrestling team and rid­ing a mo­tor­cy­cle, he is a very av­er­age teenag­er. His moth­er and fa­ther love him and he seems to have a very nor­mal fam­i­ly life, with the ex­cep­tion of hav­ing anger prob­lems. For these prob­lems he sees a shrink-Dr Ben­net (Sigour­ney Weaver). One day while work­ing on a school project with his long-time neigh­bour and crush Karen (Lily Collins), he dis­cov­ers a ba­by pho­to of him­self on a miss­ing per­sons Web site. This is where the con­spir­a­cy be­gins. If his re­al name is Steven Price, then who are the peo­ple in his home? Who are his re­al par­ents and who is re­al­ly on his side? There are the peo­ple who he con­tacts on the Web site and then there is the CIA-who should he trust? The CIA in­ter­cept­ed a phone call that he made to the po­lice (which is of course in­cred­i­bly strange since they knew his name be­fore he said it.) Even more sus­pi­cious­ly, Dr Ben­net shows up to tell him not to trust any­one but her.

My Cri­tique

I en­joyed Ab­duc­tion. The con­cept in­trigued me and as a film it was de­cent­ly done (in my opin­ion.) By no means was the con­cept a new one, but the film-mak­ers suc­ceed­ed in mak­ing it as orig­i­nal as pos­si­ble. I know I said not to as­so­ciate the movie with Twi­light, but in fact, it is in the same league in terms of qual­i­ty. It may not be a vam­pire/love film, but it is still not much more than a teenaged ac­tion/thriller with ro­mance scenes. Gen­er­al­ly, Ab­duc­tion wouldn't be en­joyed by more ma­ture au­di­ences as much as it would be en­joyed by teens.