Starring Alex Pettyfer, Mickey Rourke, Alicia Silverstone, Missi
Pyle, Bill Nighy, Sophie Okonedo, Sarah Bolger, Robbie Coltrane,
Stephen Fry, Damian Lewis, Andy Serkis, Ewan Mcgregor and Ashley Walters
Directed by Geoffrey Sax
Adapted by Anthony Horowitz from the first in his smash hit series
of novels, Operation Stormbreaker is, on the surface, another entry
into the increasingly tired ‘teen spy’ genre. However, as the movie
opens it becomes clear that this is something altogether different.
Opening with a fantastic running battle across the coast between
Ian Rider (Mcgregor) and a mysterious group of soldiers, the film looks
and moves more like James Bond than Cody Banks. There’s the same
casual, black humour to the fight scene, the same sense that at no
point is Ian in any danger. At the same time as dispatching the bad
guys, he’s even having a conversation with his nephew, the
fourteen-year old Alex (Pettyfer). The world is saved once again, and
the super spy will be home in time for dinner.
Then two bullets change the film, and Alex Rider’s life, forever.
Alex’s investigation into his uncle’s death leads him not only to
discover what he really did for a living but also to a particularly
uncomfortable realisation. His uncle was training him for the same
life. Now, MI5 want a return on their investment and are prepared to
make Alex’s life hell in order to get it. Finishing his training, they
dispatch Alex to finish the job his Uncle began, investigating the
mysterious Darius Sayle, a computer mogul about to donate thousands of
free computers to the nation’s schools…
With such a dark premise it would be easy for the film to be
overtly grim.
Novel,Train
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