I can't believe how disappointing this movie was. I'm not saying it was horrible, it was just disappointing.
The Alex Rider Series is my favorite book series in the whole entire world and when I heard Stormbreaker the movie was coming out, I was SO excited to see it! That was early July, late July came (the said release date for the movie) and I hadn't heard a thing about it, no commericals...no nothing. A little while later I figured out that late July was England's release date. So I spent another several months pouring over fan sites, reading comments about the movie from English people. Then October 13th (the release date for the US) finally came. I was very very VERY excited, but once again I hadn't heard anything about it. I looked the movie up in the newspaper and on movie theater websites and I found out that it wasn't showing in my area, in fact Stormbreaker wasn't showing within a two-mile radius of my town! I finally drove two and a half miles to see it and was greatly disappointed. The movie was okay, probably a 7/10, but everything felt off. I don't think the actor that played Alex Rider was right for the part. Also the fact that everyone figured out that Alex was a spy it got rid of the secretive atmosphere and theme that the books had. This fact and because Alex Rider's actor was a bit too old for the role, got rid of the scrambling of MI6 trying to hide the fact the they are risking a child's life.
This movie was defiantly not what I expected it to be. It might not have been so disappointing if the movie company actually spent some money on advertising and got it in more theaters so then I wouldn't feel that I wasted my time and money driving so far.
The Alex Rider Series is my favorite book series in the whole entire world and when I heard Stormbreaker the movie was coming out, I was SO excited to see it! That was early July, late July came (the said release date for the movie) and I hadn't heard a thing about it, no commericals...no nothing. A little while later I figured out that late July was England's release date. So I spent another several months pouring over fan sites, reading comments about the movie from English people. Then October 13th (the release date for the US) finally came. I was very very VERY excited, but once again I hadn't heard anything about it. I looked the movie up in the newspaper and on movie theater websites and I found out that it wasn't showing in my area, in fact Stormbreaker wasn't showing within a two-mile radius of my town! I finally drove two and a half miles to see it and was greatly disappointed. The movie was okay, probably a 7/10, but everything felt off. I don't think the actor that played Alex Rider was right for the part. Also the fact that everyone figured out that Alex was a spy it got rid of the secretive atmosphere and theme that the books had. This fact and because Alex Rider's actor was a bit too old for the role, got rid of the scrambling of MI6 trying to hide the fact the they are risking a child's life.
This movie was defiantly not what I expected it to be. It might not have been so disappointing if the movie company actually spent some money on advertising and got it in more theaters so then I wouldn't feel that I wasted my time and money driving so far.