77 out of 79 people found the following review helpful:

superb

williamsgwynfa from , 1st May, 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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22 out of 22 people found the following review helpful:

Windbreaker

Mbub from Westbury, Wilts, 22nd May, 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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19 out of 22 people found the following review helpful:

Storming good fun!

A Customer from York, England., 22nd July, 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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16 out of 24 people found the following review helpful:

Its OK

Who Deni from EATHST THUSEX, 12th December, 2006

Not bad for a UK film. Look at the casting. Any actor with any credability in this film are not in it for a very long. However the other actors eg. Alicia SILVERSTONE, and matey who plays the lead role (the vilans are a bit OTT) are reasonable and make it entertaining. Not bad!!!!

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Stormed

Jammy74 from , 19th February, 2010

Stormbreaker is based on a series of children's books, and as such it falls into the trap of spending a fair bit of the film setting up a lucrative franchise of movies a la Harry Potter. To date, the franchise has failed to materialise. Oh dear. It isn't altogether Stormbreaker's fault. It's a good movie, with some nice ideas surrounding the ludicrous idea of a child working for MI6. There's a reasonably starry British cast, some good gags, and some well put together action scenes. Alex Pettyfer does an excellent job portraying Alex Rider and could be one to watch. The plot is wafer-thin and often silly, but it's not like the audience the film is aimed at are going to care. My kids enjoyed it, and so did I. The film does, however, have an insecurity that so many British-based movies have. It apparently needed a Hollywood 'star' and here they've got themselves Mickey Rourke, who is actually a decent actor but in Stormbreaker plays his villain with such a hammy approach I was looked for Danepak stencilled on his back. He instantly costs the film one star. But otherwise, a decent watch.

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Rider in the storm

Oletimer from , 10th February, 2010

Good film, complementary to the book, the kids loved it with some good tongue in cheek humour.

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a kids film, a good watch though

A Customer from Exeter, England, 15th January, 2010

didn't realise it was a kids film with the impressive list of cast... having said that it was a bit of fun... a little cheesey but its a kids film... worth a watch!

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Stormbreaker

A Customer from Gosport, 25th December, 2009

Rather childish film about a 14 year-old boy who defeats four seasoned hoodlums with a length of roap then goes on to be recruited by MI6 and run rings round everybody in a computer factory intent on destroying millions of school children with the launch of a computer given to every school in the country. Suitable for young teenagers.

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