teen spy directed
by : Geoffrey Sax featuring
: Alex Pettyfer - Sarah Bolger - Robbie Coltrane - Stephen Fry - Damian
Lewis running
time : 1 hour 32 minutes
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 novels featuring an
adolescent secret agent. Alex Rider (Alex Pettyfer) always though that
his kindly uncle Ian (Ewan McGregor) was your average, everyday nondescript
bank manager, but when Ian was murdered by notorious assassin Yassen Gregorovich
(Damian Lewis), everything young Alex thought he knew would be forever
changed by one simple bullet. A deadly martial artist, skilled linguist,
steady-handed mountaineer, and deadeye marksman, Alex realizes that his
uncle has been secretly training him in the art of espionage when he is
recruited by MI6 Special Operations agents Mr. Blunt (Bill Nighy) and Mrs.
Jones (Sophie Okonedo). It seems that billionaire Darius Sayle (Mickey
Rourke) has generously offered to donate a complimentary Stormbreaker supercomputer
to every school in Britain, but while his philanthropic offer is welcomed
with open arms by the struggling school system, MI6 fears that something
nefarious is afoot. Assigned the task of infiltrating Sayle's impenetrable
lair by posing as the winner of a computer magazine contest, Alex makes
the acquaintance of shady Sayle sidekicks Mr. Grin (Andy Serkis) and Nadia
Vole (Missi Pyle) before getting a special sneak preview of the remarkable
Stormbreaker's true powers. His cover subsequently blown, Alex is given
a key piece of information regarding the remarkable computer before being
thrown to a giant jellyfish by Sayle and his henchmen and left to die just
as the prime minister is about to push the button that will activate Stormbreaker
computers all across Britain. With no time to spare and the fate of a nation
hanging in the balance, Alex must now enlist the help of his trusted housekeeper
Jack Starbright (Alicia Silverstone) and faithful classmate Sabina Pleasure
(Sarah Bolger) in ensuring that the Stormbreaker system is not activated
and revealing Sayle for the true villain that he is before the young super
spy's breathless first mission becomes his fatal last.
