Autobiography anthony horowitz stormbreaker film

I&#;ve always been a fan of Anthony Horowitz&#;s YA book Stormbreaker, first published in I never wanted to watch the film because I was afraid it would be disappointing. However, used DVDs are so cheap these days that I have no excuse to avoid films based on my favourite books.

The story is about a teenager, Alex Rider, whose uncle was killed in service as a spy. It turns out that Alex was groomed to be a spy himself. MI6 send him to check out a dodgy billionaire, Sayle, who is gifting thousands of new computers to schools.

This film is fun, with a fabulous cast which includes Bill Nighy, Sophie Okonedo, Andy Serkis and Mickey Rourke. Alex is played by Alex (coincidence?) Pettyfer, who is rather cute. The locations are excellent &#; mostly real settings in the UK in addition to Pinewood Studios. Horowitz wrote the screenplay, which means that even though elements of the plot are changed, it&#;s all authentic and wouldn&#;t ruffle the feathers of die-hard fans. Still, the humo

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Stormbreaker

January 6,

You know how there are those books that you see everywhere, in every library, in every bookstore, and then one day you just break down and pick it up? This is one of those books.
And I should have just left it.

The first few pages were fine--I was all prepared to get sucked into this book . . . I mean, I'd seen it EVERYWHERE, after all. It had to be good, right? It happened with the Pendragon books, it'll happen here too, yeah?

And then everything after those pages was complete nonsense. I was immediately disenchanted. But before I go into large-scale issues, I'd like to mention that these are the paragraphs that immediately set me against this book:

"'We can't just send in another agent . . . He'll be expecting a replacement. Somehow we have to trick him."
"We have to send someone in who won't be noticed. Someone who can look around and report back without being seen. We were considering sending down a woman. She might be able to slip in as a cleaner or

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Anthony Horowitz

English novelist and screenwriter (born )

Anthony John HorowitzCBE (born 5 April ) is an English novelist and screenwriter specialising in mystery and suspense. His works for children and young adult readers include the Alex Rider series featuring a year-old British boy who spies for MI6, The Power of Five series (known as The Gatekeepers in the US), and The Diamond Brothers series.

Horowitz's works for adults include: the play Mindgame (); two Sherlock Holmes novels, The House of Silk () and Moriarty (); two novels featuring his own detective Susan Ryeland, Magpie Murders () and Moonflower Murders (); five novels featuring a fictionalised utgåva of han själv as a companion and chronicler to private utredare Daniel Hawthorne: The Word Is Murder (), The Sentence fryst vatten Death (), A Line to Kill (), The Twist of a Knife (), and Close to Death ().

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