Taylor Lautner has the mother of all damned-if-you-do paradoxes hanging over his career: Already widely-known at a comparatively young age and gifted with a presence (that may be too generous of a term) well-suited for action roles... BUT! His said early/instant fame comes from having appeared in the "Twilight" movies - which is exactly the sort of pedigree that the audience a would-be action-star needs to cultivate would hold against him.
Below, the kind of hilarious trailer for his first stab at a solo action career, "Abduction," which for some reason isn't getting the sort of point-at-it-and-laugh hype you'd expect so far (and doesn't seem to have caught the attention of "Twilight" fans, either)...
It's "The Face On The Milk Carton" meets "The Bourne Identity." Having heavyweights like Signourney Weaver and Alfred Molina LITERALLY cast as the folks leading him through the movie by the hand is a little on the nose, if you ask me...
I wonder how many people, when this plays in theaters, assume that it's actually a "Jacob" spin-off before the spy stuff kicks in?
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