It's fun, it's light, [but] it has a hard time when its tries to get heavy.

The story-telling is good with flashbacks.The film is both funny and heartbreaking. You smile in a scene and get a soulcrushing revelation in the next.

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

The biggest problem with this movie is it’s a little better than you think it might be, which somehow makes it worse. As in, it takes itself a bit too seriously, which makes most of the movie feel kind of dull.

A tepid spy movie that deviates from the gritty excitement of the books that inspired it and instead offers boring action scenes, cardboard acting and campy silliness that outstayed it's welcome in the 90's. Every scene that was potentially interesting was butchered. From the dumb cowboy rope tricks in the junkyard, the boring bike chase, the boring horse chase, the fight scene played along with TV cartoons, Bill Nighy's TERRIBLE turn as Alan Blunt (with the masterful line "He's about as charming..... AS A SNAKE!, did you add that one in Anthony Horowitz? it wasn't in your book?) and criminally wasted cameos from Jimmy Carr and Stephen Fry.I was in love with the Alex Rider books as a kid. My heart broke upon watching this movie. It's bad in every way a movie can be bad. I was glad it was a box office dud so they couldn't follow up with 9 more wastes of time and money. Which is a shame because I wanted some entertaining spy action thrillers watch over and over again like i did with Bond. Instead we got 1 horrible misfire you couldn't pay me enough to watch again.Man was this movie awful. Alex Pettyfer is the wrong choice as Alex, not only is his eye and hair colour wrong, he is so indifferent playing a schoolboy who becomes a spy you'd think that he had fallen asleep throughout the movie then woken up right before the credits saying "I was in a movie was I?" compare that to the harrowing emotional journey of his book counterpart. Like comparing Shakespeare to 50 shades of Grey in terms of quality. Adding in Sabina Pleasure for seemingly no reason other than having a pretty girl to join in on the "fun" was one of the dumbest and nonsensical choices. Mickey Rourke is well... Mickey Rourke, rather than an actual character. That Mr. grin guy looked about as menacing as an old cab driver with a cold. And Damian Lewis hanging upside down off a helicopter every time he shoots someone? bugger off. They should have given this movies $40 million budget to the red cross or something. Game over Alex. At least the audio books are still fun to listen to.

Stormbreaker is about a boy, named Alex. He thinks he is a regular schoolboy until his uncle gets killed. He thinks that it is a little strange at the funeral. So he is following after some men's and finds out that his uncle was a spy, on a mission that he got killed. Alex is the new man for the mission. Mr.Blunt is sending Alex to the place where his uncle was. Darrius Sayle is the creator of the Stormbreaker, it is a game. Alex should try it. Darrius plans to give every school in the country a Stormbreaker. But Darrius have other ideas and Alex must find out what it is. I think Stormbreaker is a movie where there is happening things every minute. But it can be a little boring too. I got a little consume in it, maybe because Alex is pretty hot. It is a good movie whit a good story.8 star because it is a good movie, but sometimes it got a little bit boring.

If watching a cast of actors mugging their way through a vapid and disinterested kid-friendly adventure film sounds like your cup of tea, then you might just enjoy STORMBREAKER. Those viewers with a decent amount of taste, however, will surely find it as difficult to sit through as I did: it's one of those lowest-common-denominator movies, an utterly puerile and crass attempt at money spinning.Alex Pettyfer, a good-looking but ultimately bland young actor, stars as an ordinary schoolboy whose uncle (hammy Ewan McGregor) just happens to be a secret super-spy. From the opening action scene, which screams overkill, I knew the action in this film was going to be appalling: a mess of disjointed editing and seen-it-all-before stunts as Pettyfer trains to take over his uncle's job. Perhaps realising the crappy action choreography they were saddled with, the producers called in Donnie Yen to spice up a couple of martial arts bouts, but even these aren't enough to enliven the film.Realism disappears on the horizon at the film's outset and from then on in it's content to recycle old Bond ideas while ripping off Harry Potter here and there (check out the phone booth scene which is directly copied from the entrance to the Ministry of Magic in that film series) In terms of the cast, STORMBREAKER has a tendency to show off the worst of the actors it employs and only Sophie Okonedo and Damian Lewis walk away with any kind of credibility. Andy Serkis is a walking caricature, Stephen Fry uncomfortable as a Q shoe-in, while Mickey Rourke is plasticky and uncomfortable as the nonthreatening villain. Alicia Silverstone has long since vanished from our screens, and you'll see why when you witness her wooden acting here. Bill Nighy turns out to be hammy and one-note, although the worst actor by far to appear is Missi Pyle, whose excruciating Russian accent is the most irritating thing I can ever remember seeing in a movie. Let's hope there's no sequel!

First there was Spy Kids, then there was Agent Cody Banks, and then director Geoffrey Sax (White Noise) brought us this attempt to turn James Bond into a child. Basically orphaned teenager Alex Rider (Alex Pettyfer) is just like any ordinary school boy, but he doesn't know that his uncle Ian (Ewan McGregor) is a secret agent working for the government, and he only finds this out when his uncle is killed in action. Alan Blunt (Bill Nighy) explains to Alex that he was thrust into the super spy world ever since he was a child, for many years he has been unintentionally training to become the next, and he is the only one to carry on the latest mission. Recruited by Blunt and Mrs. Jones (Sophie Okonedo), and armed with a variety of special gadgets by Smithers (Stephen Fry), the assignment is to go undercover in the compound of billionaire Darrius Sayle (Mickey Rourke). Sayle is donating a free Stormbreaker mega-computer to all British schools, and it is up to Alex to try this new system out for himself and make sure there's nothing wrong with it, which of course there is. Alex finds out more secrets going into restricted areas, and he also meets Sayle's sidekicks with vixen publicist Nadia Vole (Missi Pyle) and scar-faced mute servant Mr. Grin (Andy Serkis). The gadgets help the young spy to escape capture, and it a rush against time to get to Sayle before his plan to launch the Stormbreaker weapon in Britain gets underway. In the end, with some help from his housekeeper Jack Starbright (Alicia Silverstone) and his friend Sabina Pleasure (Sarah Bolger), Alex saves Britain, defeats the villain, and goes back to school, but his spying continues. Also starring Damian Lewis as Yassen Gregorovich, Jimmy Carr as John Crawford and Robbie Coltrane as Prime Minister. Rourke is your typical camp Bond style villain, the young hero is okay in his short time, the supporting cast of well known Brits makes for good viewing, and the Bond inspired action and special effects are alright, not a bad family action adventure. Worth watching!