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Alex
Rider:
Operation Stormbreaker
It’s
more like
Operation Snoozemaker.
Alex Pettyfer
stars as Alex Rider – a typical TV-star looking high school
kid in London. After his parents died,
Alex moved in with
his uncle, Ian Rider (Ewan McGregor), who seems to be off on business
very
often, and the nanny, Jack Starbright (Alicia Silverstone). Alex soon learns Uncle Ian
was an agent for
MI6 (the British CIA), and finds himself recruited to investigate
Darrius Sayle
(Mickey Rourke) – a businessman who appears to have some
diabolical plot in
motion.
What is
Sayle’s
big plot? Can Alex
Rider stop him in
time?
Alex
Rider:
Operation Stormbreaker is
supposed to be a teenage version of a James Bond
movie, but this kid is no Sean Connery, or Daniel Craig. Heck, he’s not
even Timothy Daulton. The
problem is how director Geoffrey Sax
tries to straddle the divide between making a kid movie and making an
action
movie. As an action
movie, we have
violence, fights and people getting shot at, which might be a bit much
for the
younger kids.
However, even at
its most violent, Sax doesn’t show any blood or the
ramifications of the
violence, as the camera turns away before the gun is shot and we see
reactions
rather than results, which makes it feel unrealistic.
This might be a turn off for the 13-years old
and up set. We are
left with a movie
that is much like a date with me.
As she
might say, “he didn’t do anything wrong, but Willie
wasn’t all that exciting
and memorable either.”
Alex
Rider:
Operation Stormbreaker is a bland movie.
In addition to the violence and lack of violence
questions raised above,
the adult characters are cartoonish at best.
Bill Nighy and Missi Pyle are silly as the villains,
when both can do so
much better, and Pettyfer might look good on the cover of Teen People,
but has
nothing compelling about him. The
kid
lacks the spark and dynamism you would expect from a leading actor (no
matter
what age he or she might be). Finally,
the big evil Stormbreaker plot doesn’t shock the audience or
move us in anyway
to care about what might happen.
Alex
Rider:
Operation Stormbreaker needs to go to detention.
1
Waffles (Out Of 4)
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