[At its best,] Stormbreaker gets the balance right, managing to be both playfully humorous and genuinely exciting.
Alex Rider: Operation Stormbreaker (2006)
Runtime: 1 hr 33 mins
Genre: Action/Adventure
Starring: Ewan McGregor, Alex Pettyfer, Mickey Rourke, Bill Nighy, Alicia Silverstone
Composer: Alan Parker
Producer: Steve Christian, Andreas Grosch, Marc Samuelson, Peter Samuelson
DVD Info
Release:
Jul 12, 2007
DVD Features:
- Region 1
- Keep Case
- Widescreen
Audio:
- Dolby Digital 5.1 - English, French
- Subtitles - English, Spanish - Optional
Additional Release Materials:
- Featurettes - 1. "From Page to Screen"
- 2. "The Stunts"
- 3. "Creative the VFX for Sayle Tower"
- 4. "Casting Alex"
- 5. "Martial Arts Master Donnie Yen"
- Trailers - Theatrical Trailer
Reviews
Geoffrey Sax makes a good fist of the visuals, mustering plenty of bonkers sets, vehicular action and new-fangled gizmos.
This whizzy adventure will keep pre-teens enthralled and adults quietly chuckling. But it's just not sophisticated enough.
Of the dressed-to-thrill cast, only [Alex] Pettyfer disappoints; he just looks and sounds too bland to be a teen hero. But I’ll leave that for the kids to decide.
The colourful cast have a lot of fun with their slightly cartoonish roles, particularly Bill Nighy and Missi Pyle as Sayle's henchwoman.
There's so much potential within, but it's terribly squandered. And that's a real shame.
A moderately enjoyable affair which only drags in the middle.
Jamais parece reconhecer a pouca idade de seu herói, que age como adulto (e como espião experiente) na maior parte do tempo, o que, além de tornar tudo implausível, ainda resulta num filme aborrecidamente convencional.
An instantly forgettable confection that'll bore more kids than it entertains.
Nobody wants to see a violent James Bond send-up, with a British teen risking life and limb for Jolly Olde England, matched against a toothpick chomping 'computer genius' villain played by Mickey Rourke.
This mishmash retread fails to find its own identity on any level and should head straight to cable TV where it belongs.
An entertaining popcorn movie featuring a veritable who's who of game British actors (and a trio of equally game American performers) who keep the proceedings lively even with a too-predictable plot.
It's not much of a plot and TV veteran director Geoffrey Sax struggles with the big-screen demands of action scenes.
Stormbreaker jarringly shifts back-and-forth from real-world believability to Bond-esque suspense-of-disbelief to Boris-and-Natasha goofiness.
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