Stormbreaker on DVD (2006)

Average rating: 59%

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Starring:	Mickey Rourke, Alicia Silverstone, Ewan McGregor, Bill Nighy, Sophie Okonedo
Director:	Geoffrey Sax
Studio:	ENTERTAINMENT IN VIDEO
Run time:	90 mins
Certificate:
User collections:	10 Children's book-to-film adaptations, The Ewan McGregor Collection, kids films
Genres:	Action/Adventure, Audio Descriptive, Family
Languages:	English, English Audio Description
Released:	13/11/2006
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Brief synopsis of Stormbreaker

Alex Rider is a 14-year-old orphan who has been unwittingly trained all his life by his uncle with the skills to become a secret agent -- scuba diving, mountaineering, martial arts and so on. When his guardian, an MI6 agent, is killed, Rider learns the truth and finds himself forced against his will to take on a dangerous mission for the British secret service.

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superb

williamsgwynfa [Highly rated reviewer] , 01/05/2007

my children loved this dvd. If you have not read any of the Alex Rider books, then they are sort of like James Bond.

The main difference is that Alex Rider is a teenager.

Alex is a teenage spy who lives in Chelsea and he also works part time for MI6.

He is linked with this association, because of his father who worked for them previously.

When Alex Rider's uncle dies, it is up to him to finish his mission off. A suspiciously charitable billionaire, wants to donate a brand new computer, called the Stormbreaker to every school in the country.

the film is action packed, with a lot of fight scenes, when Alex goes undercover at Sayle's headquarters to investigate the computer 'the Stormbreaker'. it even includes Alex walking down a wall backwards.

You get to see some of the most famous parts of London, sometimes in some very entertaining situations.

one of the most nail biting sequences in this film, is when Alex is in a breaker's yard, seconds away from being mangled. the scene involves a lethally caged squid.

Alex has to prevent english school children, being murdered via a virus delivered by the supercomputer `The Stormbreaker'.

the cast are superb, which includes Stephen Fry, Alicia Silverstone, Ewan McGregor, Mickey Rourke and Bill Nighy.

well worth watching.

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Windbreaker

Mbub from Westbury, Wilts , 22/05/2007

This film is about a boy who becomes a secret agent after his uncle dies. I went into this film thinking it was going to be amazing, I had heard so many good things about it, but maybe that was the trouble. The story was very poor and the acting in my opinion was very weak. It had a couple of good action parts, hense the 2 stars, but it def. didn't live up to the hype for me. The kids also watched this and my son who is a very big James Bond fan also found it below standard. I actually think 'Spy Kids' is a better all round movie than this one. Don't expect James Bond Jr here, its nowhere near it.

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Storming good fun!

A customer from York, England. , 22/07/2006

I saw this on the first day release and after reading the book couldnt wait to see some of the action scenes. Plenty of great sequences and quite a few not to be found in Horrowitz's pages. The bonus was the humour and the way the 'baddies' and 'goodies' sent themselves up. It didnt take itself too seriously and this kept a balance of teen espionage and tongue in cheek gags. Bill Nighy demonstrated this with just his eye-brows!

Well worth a watch for young and old.

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