It's so flavourless - the characters don't have the flair that they had in the book, and if you ask me, the screenplay is very much immateur. The book is actually very good, and we get nothing from the script. The film is an adaptation of Anthony Horrowitz's Stormbreaker,and he takes on the role of screenwriter. Alex finds himself trapped in the giant facility by Sayle and his evil sidekicks, Nadia Vole (Missi Pyle), and Mr. Jones (Sophie Okonedo), and assigned to infiltrate the HQ of billionaire Darius Sayle (Mickey Rourke), who is donating one of his revolutionary Stormbreaker computers to every British school. He lives with his Uncle Ian (Ewan McGregor), and American housekeeper Jack (Alicia Silverstone), and he thinks his uncle works in a bank but Ian is a spy for MI6 and, before the opening credits are over, he's dead. So, what the fuck happened?ġ4-year-old Alex Rider (Alex Pettyfer) is an orphan. They had so much to work with - some good actors, a great martial arts choreographer, and exciting stunts. The two young men stare each other down before Yassen hops back into his helicopter and flies away.Having read the book, I can say that Stormbreaker is totally disapointing. As he is about to shoot Alex, Sayle collapses-he's been shot by Yassen Gregorovich. Sayle is able to escape, but he reemerges the next day to kidnap Alex. To make a long story short (it's kind of the point of this section of the learning guide, after all), Alex hijacks a plane, kicks some butt, and manages to stop Sayle from activating his biological bomb. Unfortunately, Alex is caught before he can notify MI6, giving him only two hours to stop Sayle from activating the virus at the London Science Museum. During his stay, Alex follows clues left by his uncle and learns the truth: Sayle is loading the computers with a deadly biological virus. Herod Sayle acts like he just read Super Villainy for Dummies, his butler Mr. There's not much time before Stormbreaker is released, so Alex is hurried through a two-week boot camp, given some handy spy gadgets, and shipped off to Sayle Enterprises. So here's the plan: Alex will impersonate a contest winner who's won a trip to Sayle Enterprises in order to get to the bottom of things. Ian's death (at the hands of Yassen Gregorovich, famed assassin) only confirms their fears. Sayle has promised to donate one Stormbreaker to every school in England, but MI6 has been suspicious about Sayle for some time. Whoa, right? But what's even more bananas is that they need Alex's help.Īt the time of his death, Ian was trailing Herod Sayle, a tech mogul set to release a revolutionary new computer called the Stormbreaker. Blunt reveals the truth to Alex: Ian (and everyone at the "bank," for that matter) works for the British spy agency, MI6. He visits the bank the next day and tries to sneak into Ian's office, but he's caught by Mr. Alex only gets more suspicious after he meets his uncle's bank coworkers, who all seem like they have something to hide.Īlex's suspicions lead him to a creepy junkyard, where he finds his uncle's car, and it doesn't look like it's been in an accident-it looks like it was shot up with bullets. Alex is devastated by the news and worried about his future, but he has questions about the official story-nothing seems to add up. Meet Alex Rider, an average British teenager whose life is about to seriously change.Įverything starts when Alex's uncle and caretaker, Ian Rider, is killed in a car accident.
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