Alex Rider: Operation Stormbreaker

An outwardly ordinary teenager finds himself suddenly thrust into extraordinary circumstances upon discovering that his entire youth was part of an elaborate plan to create the perfect super spy in director Geoffrey Sax's action-packed adaptation of author Anthony Horowitz's best-selling series of ...more

Alex Rider: Operation Stormbreaker is like a British Agent Cody Banks -- which actually already exists, sort of, in the form of Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London. The difference is that the lead character (Alex Pettyfer) is actually British, and it's a pretty big one in terms of the film's apparent sophistication level. Pettyfer plays Alex Rider seriously, like a junior spy, rather than comically, like a kid in over his head -- though that doesn't mean we're spared the lame attempts at ...more