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It's better than some James Bond movies--no matter what your age.
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63Despite a relatively paltry $40 million budget, Stormbreaker has the sheen and special effects of a Bond movie, and the ambition as well.
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63Taken for what it is - 'tweenage escapism - Stormbreaker is moderately fun.
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63Though the film is not terribly original (and features a jarringly miscast Alicia Silverstone as Alex's nanny), the action scenes are diverting, the veteran cast is amusing and the engaging Pettyfer makes a solid debut.
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63For kids strung out on Anthony Horowitz's 007-lite adventure series, this maiden adaptation is a pleasant enough diversion from having to flip the pages.
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The nonstop action in this British romp should ensure that its target audience, sugar-buzzed prepubescent boys, stay strapped in their seats.
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58A bland Bond.
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50Sax keeps things moving, but the best thing about the film is the British cast.
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Alex Rider: Operation Stormbreaker is "Agent Cody Banks" played British and kinda straight -- that is, as straight as you can when your villain, who dispatches foes with a giant jellyfish, is played by a toothpick-chomping Mickey Rourke in purple eye shadow.
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50Mr. Pettyfer is no Sean Connery, no Roger Moore, no Pierce Brosnan, no Timothy Dalton and no George Lazenby even, but the director, Geoffrey Sax, compensates for his zero of a hero by indulging the exceedingly amused and amusing supporting cast.
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50Rourke's hammy, eyeliner-enhanced acting alone almost makes Alex Rider worth a look.
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40A lame and disappointing affair.
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The film is forever trying to balance between being for younger teenagers and keeping their parents occupied as well, and never quite gets it right.
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38This lame teenage James Bond will leave audiences neither shaken nor stirred.
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38A British flick based on the first novel in a popular teenage spy-thriller series by Anthony Horowitz, looks promising but, unfortunately, doesn't measure up.
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30It's ostensibly an action movie, and the action is so poorly shot as to be embarrassing.
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30A shake 'n' bake Brit teen-spy actioner, without a smidgeon of originality, humor or involving characterization, Stormbreaker is a high-profile bust.
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30Perhaps as a publishing phenomenon the concept works, but on-screen it's pretty dull, with good actors in bad roles and bad special effects.
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25While it's filled with quality actors, this James Bond tale for tweens feels like something you should be getting for free on television.
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25About as clunky as a movie gets. It lurches from scene to scene with no sense of narrative grace, gives its roster of prominent actors nothing to work with and screeches to a halt with all the grace of a sprinter whose shoelaces have been tied together.
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