Reviews

• As Nathan, the teenage hero of Abduction, Lautner shows he's handy with stunts, many of which he clearly and impressively performs himself, and good with a fight scene. But when it comes to exchanges of dialogue, displays of emotion or just standing around, he's stiff and manifestly uncomfortable.

  - Movieline
  
  29 November 2012

• Director John Singleton offers bits of suspense, but Abduction is less a movie than a piece of engineering, a glumly ludicrous cat-and-mouse blowout designed to win Lautner male fans along with his girl demo.

  Owen Gleiberman - Entertainment Weekly
  
  29 November 2012

• Singleton's action thriller has a decent sense of propulsion but, after a faintly intriguing start, the convoluted plot mechanics overwhelm everything else, making you feel you're watching a detailed blueprint for a movie, and an increasingly far-fetched one in the bargain.

  Todd McCarthy - The Hollywood Reporter
  
  29 November 2012

• Abduction is just the third movie John Singleton has directed in the past decade, and it contains neither the passion nor the competence of his two previous genre efforts - "2 Fast 2 Furious" and "Four Brothers."

  Glenn Whipp - Los Angeles Times
  
  29 November 2012

• Filled with laughable dialogue, Abduction goes nowhere.

  Claudia Puig - USA Today
  
  29 November 2012