Abduct My Brain. Plleeeaaaase!!!

There are many downsides to the success of the Twilight movies. One of the biggest is the fact many of these dreary actors get other acting jobs in other big budget studio fare....and that means that sooner or later some dumb studio exec is going to offer Taylor "Team Jacob" Lautner a job. Well the inevitable has happened and the smiley plank has got himself a leading man gig in Abduction.

There's two types of people who got involved in Abduction. There's the A-List talent like cinematographer Peter Menzies Jnr, composer Edward Shearmur and director John Singleton who can't really be bothered to put any creative effort into this dead end star vehicle. You can lump the majority of the cast into the same category with Jason Isaacs, Maria Bello, Alfred Molina, Michael Nyqvist and Sigourney Weaver all phoning in half arsed performances.

Then there's the young cast of teens who aren't really up to carrying an action blockbuster. Denzel Whitaker demonstrates a blankness as Lautner's best friend that really shouldn't be allowed anywhere around a movie camera, Lily Collins, despite being the cutest new girl on the plot for years, in unremarkable as the hero's girl while Lautner himself is epically wooden easily trumping Channing Tatum's staggeringly dead-eyed GI Joe starring role.

The Bourne Identity inspired chase plot is solid if predictable, but is undermined by it becoming an exercise in teen-spy wish fulfillment. Plus it's not helped by Launter's character being a cocky, moody, high school jock type who garner no sympathy in the early stages of the film. With a better teen leading man this might of worked but, as it stands, it's a average actioner with a terrifying black hole of talentlessness at its centre.