Abduction

Every so often I like to treat myself to a truly awful action movie.

Just to keep myself honest.

There's something that extremely stimulating about a bad action movie to me. Not only because of the "I'm going to make fun of this until the sun sets", but also because it inspires me in my own writings.

I would love to write bad action movies when I grow up.

But I digress. On to the movie.

Thus, we see the bad action movie in its natural habitat.

Everything. Everything about this movie save for some actually legit fight scenes courtesy of Taylor Lautner, everything about this movie was done poorly. Even the title has nothing to do with the actual plotline. No one gets abducted. There is no real truth to be revealed. The female protagonist was a whimpering do nothing that literally had nothing to do but get into trouble so the man character had to come save her.

But what really gets me in the lack of emotional development of these characters. The main kid's "parents" die...right in front of him and there is literally no mourning time before he suddenly grows super secret agent powers and takes down the bad guys of the mysterious government agency that his "parents" were apart of.

Also, the ending was thoroughly unsatisfying. There is a special place in movie hell for movies that sacrifice quality resolution to shove in the opening to make a sequel. Drives me nuts.

I think where it mostly went wrong was the screenplay itself. The casting was not actually that bad, believe it or not, but the structure from which this project was made was thoroughly unsteady at best.

All in all, two hours of my life I will never get back.

It was great.