Tracers starring Taylor Lautner responds to this issue by molding a parkour tale within a temperate indie budget, and using a recognizable star who is game to be his own stuntman but not expected to be a sturdy dramatic force. This sometimes-nifty action movie offers a fairly happy medium for a style of action choreography that deserves more exposure, especially given the potential proved here by competent film making.Delivering a typical plot about a New York story about Cam (Lautner), a city boy who turns to crime to pay off massive debts he has with a local parkour gang from trying to save his house before his widowed mother died, and in the process he finds a little friendship, and even some love (in Nikki, played by Marie Avgeropoulos). Director Benmayor accepts the importance of straight- faced tone to a parkour movie and aims to take these characters and situations as seriously as possible. The film is predictable but there are several great stunts and decent action for a B-movie such as this to entertain.

The film starts off as Premium Rush as Cam (Taylor Lautner) is a Bike Messenger in New York who owes money to the Chinese mafia. He crashes his bike into Nikki (Marie Avgeropoulos) and through her he is introduced a group of slackers that use Parkour to pull off heists. He just needs to make sure he keeps out of Chinatown. So the movie quickly evolves into a knock off Fast and Furious type with acrobatics replacing cars.Cam joins the gang, falls in love with Nikki, but there is mutual distrust between Cam and the leader of the gang.Cam quickly develops his Parkour skills but his debt to the gangsters is spiralling out of control and the heists are getting riskier.The film starts off brightly, gets dull very quickly, the plot is mundane and even the Parkour can get repetitive. Lautner is OK in the action scenes but the drama and romance angle is limp.

They need to put a health warning on the DVD cover of this movie because I felt like I was going to vomit after 15 minutes. I couldn't take any more. I'm not a fan of shaky camera, but I can appreciate it if used appropriately, for example in found footage films or certain action scenes. However, in this movie the camera was constantly bouncing around, and I mean CONSTANTLY. In scenes in which two people are standing still and talking to each other, the camera still bounces and flicks around, as if you are getting the first person view of a bystander with ADHD! One minute the camera is aimed at someone's face, then suddenly - BAM! it whizzes down and your looking at the ground, then suddenly - BAM! it whizzes back up and your looking at a shaky face, then BAM! You get the point... Up down, left right, up down, left right, NEVER EVER STILL FOR A SINGLE SECOND. Was there a constant earthquake? Was the cameraman high on ice? If you want to throw up, go watch this movie.

It might be unfair to Taylor, but if you've seen Premium Rush (and you should watch that rather than this), you can see he lacks a bit of charisma. Maybe talent, but I'm not going to go that far, he's still young and maybe he finds his way (no pun intended). Unfortunately he's not even close to achieving that here. The story is a mess, the action scenes help a little, but the acting destroys most of it again. They all do look good though.If that polished look is enough for you and a minimum amount of suspense does the trick, then go ahead and watch this. But the movie does not have enough of everything to keep you occupied or on the edge of your seat. It's all too neat, even when it's gets finally "evil" for a moment. Add clichés and predictability and you have the end result here