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Alex Rider: Operation Stormbreaker

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Alex Rider is a British teenager, whom MI6 recruits into its ranks, for his skills as a linguist, scuba diver, sharpshooter and martial artist are perfect for a career in espionage; his first assignment is to investigate billionaire Darrius Sayle, who may have a nefarious motive for his recent donation of megacomputers to all of England's schools.
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Alex Rider: Operation Stormbreaker is strictly children's fare, as it lacks originality, excitement, and believabiltity.

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Richard Roeper Ebert & Roeper 10/17/2006
I forgot most of it about 20 seconds after it was over. Go to Full Review
Nancy Churnin Dallas Morning News 10/14/2006
C
Yes, we've got brand new blond junior and grown-up Bonds this season, but the toughest task for Baby Bond could be finding an audience. Go to Full Review
Sara Michelle Fetters MovieFreak.com 10/13/2006
2/4
The movie runs in fits and starts, dragging along as if on life support for the majority of the first act before hitting its stride for a glorious midsection and than losing it again during a hackneyed climax that's as stupid as it is laughable. Go to Full Review
Debbie Lynn Elias Behind The Lens 11/06/2019
Director Geoffrey Sax, fresh from the intriguing work, White Noise, seems to stay in step with Horowitz' vision, although there are several scenes that seemed over-done in the ham department. Go to Full Review
Jane Boursaw Common Sense Media 01/01/2011
3/5
Teen spy hero makes leap from book to screen. Go to Full Review
Michael Dequina TheMovieReport.com 02/12/2009
2/4
What doesn't quite work are the more overtly jokey bits. Go to Full Review
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Chris L @Christoph2000 14h Mickey Rourke excels at villain roles, so at least the film has that going for it. What a pity that its quality mostly ranges from messy and irritating to outright abysmal. The divulgence of all the evil shit Mickey's bad guy is about to pull in the presence of the main character is eye-roll inducing even by the standards the Bond movies have long set for us. The Alex who plays Alex is just...meh. Andy Serkis more or less reprises Gollum without any dialogue. Bill Nighy has tragically been instructed to waste his incredible acting talent and ham it up to insanely stupid levels. The camerawork in those opening titles and the skyscraper sequence are undeniably impressive, but the level of deus ex machina around that point in the film made me want to throw in the towel entirely (something I never actually do, by the way). An Oakenfold-soundtracked horse chase? A sudden helicopter? Some of those production values recapture the aura of CBeebies pretty darn well. See more Octavio Y. @ItsNotMe189 Jan 1 Fun escapism. Entertaining See more Stephen C @bob25009 Jul 8 Success in 1 hour and 33 minutes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The USA grossed over $652,500.00!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! See more Blu B @RT43513976 Apr 2 It's like a British Kim Possible/Agent Cody Banks mixed with all the cliches and tropes of 007. You get this as a result. The editing, cinematography, and pacing aren't good here and everything else is just alright. It jumps around setting up the plot, meeting the boring and wasted opportunity villian, and doesn't give alex hard;y any character. He's such a boring character with no charisma and as plain and vanilla as you can get. The Spy Kids literally have more depth than him. The other thing is too the actual supercomputer virus plot this sets up is so boring. The sets, action scenes, direction is all just super basic. You think this is gonna have a big action piece at the end and instead we get a lame horesback chase and a anticlimatic showdown on a rooftop. The action is such a letdown in this. You get some action at the start but that's it. And that's on top of basically no character setup or interesting supporting cast for Alex. The plot is just again a by the numbers 007 ripoff. You got the gadgets, the over the top moments, the fast cars, the "M" in charge, and the over the top villian. And yet somehow it just gets convuluted to follow honestly at points when Alex is investigating stuff. Skip This and watch Spy Kids 1 or 007 instead. See more Kurt S @RT56095396 08/27/2024 Great movie! Not sure why so many ratings are so low. Marked it four because it's a bit cheesy, but other than the cheesey acting, I think the casting was well done. It mostly follows the book too. It would be nice if it was a bit closer to the books. Overall, pretty good though. See more Drew H @RT28341569 05/12/2023 Amazing movie must watch See more Read all reviews
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Movie Info

Synopsis Alex Rider is a British teenager, whom MI6 recruits into its ranks, for his skills as a linguist, scuba diver, sharpshooter and martial artist are perfect for a career in espionage; his first assignment is to investigate billionaire Darrius Sayle, who may have a nefarious motive for his recent donation of megacomputers to all of England's schools.
Director
Geoffrey Sax
Screenwriter
Anthony Horowitz
Distributor
Weinstein Co.
Production Co
Rising Star, Isle of Man Film, Weinstein Company
Rating
PG (Some Peril|Sequences of Action Violence)
Genre
Action, Adventure
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Oct 13, 2006, Limited
Release Date (Streaming)
Aug 10, 2016
Box Office (Gross USA)
$652.5K
Runtime
1h 33m
Sound Mix
Dolby SRD, DTS
Aspect Ratio
Scope (2.35:1)
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