Stormbreaker (DVD) Reviews

Stormbreaker is the 2006 film from director Geoffrey Sax based on the book by Anthony Horowitz. The Plot Alex Rider is a normal schoolboy living with his banker uncle. This is until he finds that his uncle has died in mysterious circumstances, murdered by international assassin Vassen Gregorovich. Alex finds himself ...

~~Introduction~~ Having read the Alex Rider books, I was interested to see what the film would be like. My conclusion is that it just shouldn't have been made. Anthony Horowitz gets away with some completely unbelievable events in his novels because they are novels. When they happen on the big screen you start to see just how unrealistic the ...

Stormbreaker I borrowed this DVD from my brother-in-law and I have to say I was sceptic, he told me it was a about a 14 year old spy. And that was enough to put me off. It sat on my shelve for a while I until one night when the telly was depressing and I was bored I finally opened the case and tried the film out. The ...

Stormbreaker is the first in what is a probably planned series of films based around the smash hit teen novels of Anthony Horowitz (creator of the much maligned BBC Saturday night series Crime Traveller amongst others). The books are the spy genres equivalent of the Harry Potter books with a young Alex Rider finding out that all his life he was ...

If there's one thing you can bank on during a British summer, it's torrential rain. At least, that's how I felt on a particularly rainy day when on holiday in Great Yarmouth earlier this year. At least it was an excuse to slope off and watch a movie and with "Stormbreaker" getting good reviews, off we toddled to sit in comfort as the ...