Abduction - review

Nathan Harper is a typical teenager – enjoying late night parties and hanging out with his mates is a welcome retreat from the training and constant preparing for battle his dad subjects him to.

With his dad drumming into him to ‘always be prepared’, Nathan has no idea what he’s referring to, but nevertheless the constant training and working out is seen as something he has no choice about.

After one too many parties, Nathan is grounded by his parents and only allowed out to attend school and work on a sociology project with his partner Karen, the girl over the road he has long had a crush on. 

The subject for the project is missing children, so the pair turn to missing person’s websites to gain information, but when Karen comes across a picture of a young boy which looks similar to Nathan except for a different name, they are both spooked. Nathan decides to contact the website and mentions that he may be the person in the picture, but in doing so he sets off a chain of events over which he has no control.

As he begins to doubt his identity, Nathan shares his fears with Karen and his friends before confronting his mum about it, but as soon as he begins to ask questions, snipers force their way into the house and ultimately kill the man and woman Nathan knew to be his parents.

With his parents dead and no idea why, Nathan & Karen go on the run to escape whoever is after them and when Nathan’s psychiatrist explains to him that she is actually one of his guardians from the CIA, he begins to realise why his father was so tough on him and has to call upon all the skills his father taught him to defend himself.

As the CIA and an unknown agency try to track him down, Nathan doesn’t know who to trust and with so many questions he and Karen do their best to escape the clutches of everyone, but with the CIA telling him they are working on behalf of his real father and only want to keep him safe, will he trust them even though he has no idea who his real father is?

Starring Taylor Lautner, Lily Collins, Sigourney Weaver & Alfred Molina, this fast paced movie had me gripped from the start, but ultimately I was disappointed as it seemed to run out of steam towards the end and gave up, leaving me with unanswered questions.

A disappointing watch.