Tkbn3812 Stormbreaker is a 2006 film about a 15 year old, Alex Rider, who is recruited into the MI6 spy agency and assigned a mission to expose the plot of an evil mastermind billionaire.This British film, based off a novel, was a decent watch. The basic premise is of a teenage James Bond. The film can be applauded for a decent plot centering around the main character, although this plot is far from perfect as I will mention later on. But issues in the production of the film are quite clear. Fighting scenes were poorly choreographed, with the apparent use of quick camera pans completely overloading and confusing these scenes. The colour scheme seems ever so slightly saturated throughout the film, which seems strange seeing as though this is a fairly recent 2006 movie.The plot too wasn't perfect. The main character Alex is whisked from his normal life to spy training, and then his mission, all in a few weeks. It makes absolutely no sense that MI6 would choose to send a new teenage recruit on this risky mission in place of an experienced spy. This, alongside other glaring plot holes, make the film rather unbelievable.The plot is fairly predictable, and hardly has you on the edge of your seat. Clearly in writing the screenplay adaptation of the novel, key elements were skimmed over or overlooked, creating a strangely paced film plot.While the acting of Alex Rider is done very well by actor Alex Pettyfer, one notable misfire was in the character of Alan Blunt, playing the MI6 director. However, perhaps the error was not in the abilities of actor Bill Nighly, but rather in the poor characterisation of his character by the writers. This character comes off as harsh, insensitive, and interestingly enough blunt, after his name, potentially leading me to believe this character was intentionally written as such. Regardless, his character is definitely unpleasant. This film cannot qualify as a notable or impressive spy film, but it has the foundations of a good movie. While predictable, the plot definitely has potential, and had more time been spent on its development it would have vastly improved. Clearly more care needed to be taken in choreography of the fight scenes.However, the film isn't a horrible watch. There are definitely worse ways to spend one and a half hours.

Ben Senneck Where to begin with the terrible atrocity that is Alex Rider: Stormbreaker.A book of such brilliance and wit is ruthlessly reduced to a Hollywood style summer blockbuster which retains nothing of the British character, humour and class that the book so vividly depicts.Scenes in the book include a quad-bike battle/chase, an encounter with a jellyfish and a Stormbreaker computer which rather than a laughable gadget is designed to be a classroom aid (and is described as one that may even fit into a classroom.)The film on the other hand is an montage of mindless violence coupled with one-liners and terrible acting. None of the suspense or plausible plot remains. The film is solely based on exploding things to keep the audience interested.Maybe if the directer of the re-make actually read the book we might get a film which truly represents the masterpiece that the book is.I beg of you READ THE BOOK.

Arlis Fuson A young kids uncle is killed and he finds out his uncle was a secret agent and he is then trained himself to stop a billionaire madman who is going to wipe-out half of the world with a computer virus. Rider poses as a computer nerd and gets inside the lions den and tries to prevent the madness from taking coarse.I really liked this film, I can't imagine why it wasn't a huge success, instead of the flop it became. Here in America it barely surfaced. I think it is very close in comparison to the likes of the Bond films and has a lot of tongue in cheek comedy, great direction, great acting, great effects, gadgets, explosions, fights, and so much to offer, its a million times better than those god-awful Cody banks films with Frankie Muniz. I just don't get why it didn't make it big.Geoffrey Sax did an amazing job as director and I was really impressed with it. I must give credit to Donny Yen for choreographing so many great fight scenes here. Acting wise it was just full of greatness, Ewan McGregor, Alicia Silverstone, Bill Nighy, Robbie Coltrane and Missi Pyle all did so good. The legendary Mickey Rourke was flawless here. Wow, what can I say about Alex Pettyfer, that kid should be a super star, he is amazing, he was around 15 when he got the part in this film, and had very little acting experience, but he really gets it. Great job, much respect to him.If you like action and the spy movies with fights, explosions and all sorts of twists and turns this film would be one to not miss, don't let the hype of its failure or the fact that a kid is the hero stop you from seeing it. 5/10 stars (and thats good for me)

jeremyscalf First let me say I need a lower rating for this film made available. Gouge my eyes out Awful! I have a couple of questions for the creators of this monstrosity. This is not directed at England in general, just the writers of this movie. Everyone knows England is the center of the universe already.Why waste money on developing a computer with a virus that kills people? why not just kill people?.. or maybe brainwash people. you know, something to validate the development of a new computer system. why was the kid afraid of the computer dinosaur? what kind of accents did the blonde chick and the red headed dude have? do the British always portray the French, Germans, Russians, Americans and people from everywhere other than england as the villains? Do they think everyone living outside of England think England is the center of the universe? why did random people not get sucked into the photo booth? Is there a guy there monitoring everyone who walks into the booth? Why would they want to stereotype themselves as ignorant white people and speak Japanese and mocking Japanese culture while eating sushi? why is there a jelly fish that does not exist in real life in the bad guy American's house? why put a smoke bomb in a Nintendo ds when you can just give the kid a real smoke bomb? it takes more time to find the cartridge and put it in the ds, start the ds and load the program than to just through a smoke bomb. why did the kid have to ride a horse when the car made it across the field in about the same time? Why would a millionaire American kid move to England with "the greatest school system in the world," and get made fun of for living in a trailer and smelling bad? Why would the producers of this film think anyone but Englanders would relate to this? how did they convince all those famous actors that this would be a good film to be in? why is the fail safe button for releasing the virus so hard for the bad guy American to get to? Answer me these questions and maybe I wont kill myself thinking of this movie.After watching this movie I feel the urge to develop a lethal virus that kills all the people who made this film. do not watch this movie unless you hate yourself or you are a 10 year Englander. Really never ever ever watch this film. Ever. Even if you are just curious.(note to self: submit the restrained review of this film, not the one that says really horrible things about this film)