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ABDUCTION

DETAILS 12A/106 mins./Out now

DIRECTOR John Singleton CAST Taylor Lautner, Lily Collins, Alfred Molina

LOOKING AT A MISSING KIDS website, teenager Nathan (Taylor Lautner) sees his own baby photo and realises his parents (Jason Isaacs, Maria Bello) are bogus... was he, let's guess, abduded? As it happens, no... it's all down to secret agent stuff. An Eastern European baddie wants to exploit Nathan (handily skilled in martial arts) to retrieve a MacGuff in from the kid's superspy real father. Also on hand are sinister or helpful types played by Alfred Molina and Sigoumey Weaver. Before we give Twilight pin-up Lautner a hard time for his lacklustre performance, we should ask Molina and Weaver, who don't have the excuse of inexperience, what their explanation is for truly terrible work here? Directed by has-it-really-come-to-this? John Singleton, this is an ineptly thrown-together fodder thriller. KN**