Blunt and Mrs. Jones treat Alex with a mixture of respect and ambivalence. On one hand, they respect the kid for his spunk and believe him to be "extraordinarily brave and resourceful" 4. On the other, though, they treat his life as expendable, although it must be mentioned that they seem to think that all life is expendable. Regardless, they are the first people to believe in Alex's immense potential. If MI6 is a leap into adulthood, then consider boot camp to be the inevitable free fall.
Alex is tested more than ever before and can even sense the "taste of defeat" 5. His experience there centers on earning the respect of the older men in his group, all of whom "taunt or humiliate him" with the un affectionate nickname "Double O Nothing" 5.
But Alex eventually earns their respect by his adherence to the bro code, becoming not a trainee, but a peer—a. Training is one thing, but it's a whole different game out there in the real world, so although Alex grows a lot in the time before his excursion to Sayle Enterprises, it's nothing compared to the growth he experiences during the mission.
Alex's life is put in danger repeatedly and, over the course of only a few days, he wins more no-win situations than we can count. How does he do it? Two things: his natural grit and determination, and the memory of how his uncle "never stopped" By the end of the novel, Alex has taken control of his own destiny.
Remember: At the start of things, he is just a fourteen-year-old boy with death in his past and uncertainty in his future. She shows signs of great attachment to Alex, of an almost motherly kind.
Jones also has hinted that she has had children at least two and that they were taken from her, which could contribute to why she has so much sympathy for Alex.
In Scorpia Alex was sent assassinate Mrs. Jones, because he believed Mrs. Jones contributed in his fathers death, but he failed to do so because of a glass shield installed by Smithers that cracked but didn't shatter The trajectory also showed the bullet went over her head and missing the target.
He then learned the truth about his father and forgive her because it's actually Julia Rothman that killed his father. It is also revealed in Scorpia that her first name is Tulip, as her parents were keen gardeners. Alex first met the Russian contract killer who killed his uncle on Herod Sayle 's ground during his mission in Stormbreaker.
Later, during the events of Eagle Strike , it is revealed that Gregorovich worked with Alex's father John 15 years prior. When Gregorovich's friend captures Alex, Gregorovich is able to arrange for Alex to do bullfighting instead of being shot directly, leading to Alex being able to escape. At the end of the novel, when Damian Cray the man who hired Gregorovich orders him to kill Alex, he refuses, because he loved Alex's dad after he saves him from a black widow, and is shot and killed.
Before dying, Gregorovich tells Alex that he worked with his father, and if Alex does not believe him to go and find Scorpia, the terrorist group that killed Alex's parents. Posing as competition winner Felix Lester, Alex gathers as much information as he can before his cover is blown. After escaping from captivity and narrowly avoiding death at the tentacles of a Portuguese Man-O-War jellyfish, Alex manages to stop the virus from being released. Herod Sayle is later killed by Yassen Gregorovich after he kidnapped Alex.
Alex is sent to investigate Dr. Undercover as Alex Friend, the rebellious son of Sir David Friend , Alex investigates the second and third floors, which the students are banned from.
However, this is not true, and Alex goes back with the SAS to storm the academy. It is later revealed that both might have survived because they meet again in Scorpia Rising. Main Article. Alex is sent to the Wimbledon Tennis Championships undercover as a ballboy to investigate a potential attempt to sabotage the games. To protect him temporarily from the Big Circle, he is sent on a mission to Skeleton Key, an island near Cuba, to look into the affairs of General Alexei Sarov.
He goes with the name of Alex Gardiner, an American boy visiting the area on holiday. Sarov plans to set off a nuclear bomb, the fallout of which would force the President of Russia out of power and lead to Russia reclaiming lost glory. Sarov plans to adopt Alex, as he reminds him of his dead son; but when Alex ruins his plan and declares that he rather be dead than have Sarov as a father, the man shoots himself.
Alex is soon taken back to England. Suspecting that Cray may have been involved, he becomes determined to find the truth, stealing a ticket to a conference Cray is attending to introduce his new game console, the Gameslayer. Alex is asked to step up and play it, though Cray makes him lose by pulling his arm away. Before he escapes, he does some searching and steals the flash-drive he had seen Cray with before he was caught, knowing it was important.
Alex and Sabina are then taken hostage by Cray and forced onto Air Force One, the Presidential Plane, where Cray can authorize the missiles release on. Alex does not go undercover in this mission. The latter brings Alex to meet Julia Rothman, who tells him his dad worked for them; Alex joins them and receives training to become an assassin.
However, Alex fails his first mission to kill Mrs Jones and learns that Scorpia had lied, and were using him until the time came to kill him.
Alex manages to sabotage the project, and goes back to London to learn the truth about his father. As he leaves the building however, he is shot in the chest by a Scorpia assassin. Whilst Alex is in hospital recovering from the assassination attempt, he is forced into action when four armed men break into the hospital with the intention of kidnapping the boy in the room next door to him.
Thinking he is Paul Drevin, they chase him through the hospital, though Alex injures them all. He is ultimately knocked unconscious and kidnapped, taken to an abandoned apartment block.
He convinces the kidnappers, who call themselves Force Three , out of cutting off his finger by proving they have the wrong boy. After they lock him in a room and set the building on fire, Alex manages to escape by tight-rope walking on a banner, and is sent back to the hospital. The CIA detain Alex briefly at the airport and ask them to keep an eye on Drevin, warning him that he is not what he seems.
Millions of pounds in debt, Drevin hatches a plan to destroy Ark Angel by means of a bomb to get some of his money back, timing it so that the remains would fall on Washington and destroy all the evidence the CIA have against him at the same time, simultanously allowing him to reclaim insurance on Ark Angel, which he now regrets building. After escaping, the CIA send Alex up into space to deactivate the bomb on Ark Angel, while Drevin is killed in a plane crash when trying to leave the island.
Alex moves the bomb to a different area inside Ark Angel so that it would just explode rather than hurtling back to Earth. While up there, he is attacked by Kaspar, the leader of Force Three, who was up there to check on the bomb. Kaspar is killed when he falls back on a knife, and Alex makes it to the escape pod minutes before Ark Angel blows up.
He crashes down to Earth and lands thousands of miles off the Australian Coast. After landing in Australia, Alex is soon rescued and debriefed before being sent on another mission.
Posing as Abdul Hassan, a refugee being smuggled to Australia by the Snakehead , Alex travels to Indonesia with Ash, who poses as his father, though they get separated on the way.
Alex is caught by Major Winston Yu , a man involved with the Snakehead and Scorpia, and tells him how he plans to kill eight significant people by detonating a bomb in the sea, causing a tsunami, to ma. Because Alex was responsible for the failure of Invisible Sword and inflicted significant damage on the Liberian Star, he informs Alex that he will be used as a transplant donor for money, and Alex is sent to the hospital straight afterwards.
After three days Alex escapes by means of a makeshift kayak, motivated by the knowledge that his eyes would be transplanted the next day. He is soon rescued by MI6 and sent back to the oil rig where the bomb would be detonated. After Ash is killed by Ben, Major Yu escapes, but when Alex sets the bomb off early it harmlessly goes off, though kills Major Yu in the resulting shockwave due to his fragile bone structure osteoporosis. In the party, Alex beats McCain in a game, and then they decide to leave.
On the way, McCain shoots one of the tires on the car Alex was in, and they go tumbling down a lake. Luckily, Rahim saves them. Blunt agrees, but only if he helps them investigate Greenfields. Alex does that, which leads him onto an investigation that leads him to McCain, and he is then captured by him and taken to Tanzania. There, he discovers his real plan, to cause a massive epidemic so his medical charity, First Aid, can stop the epidemic and earn lots of money off of it.
There, he busts the plan by blowing up a dam and causing a massive flood to wipe out a poisoned grain field, causing the virus to be eradicated. McCain then tries to kill Alex, so Rider decides to stick in an exploding gel pen into a barrel of oil nearby, and roll it over to the villian.
Blunt has other ideas and Alex must find out what it is. You're never too young to die. Rated PG for sequences of action violence and some peril. Did you know Edit. Trivia Because Alex Pettyfer was only 15 years old at the time of the film, he did not yet have a driver's licence, so the scripted car chase was changed to a horse chase. Goofs When Alex gets his gadgets, he is told that a particular cartridge is a bug finder, but in his bedroom, he puts in the cartridge that is a communication device.
Courtesy of Polydor Ltd. User reviews Review. Top review. A teenage boy becomes a spy to track down the mystery behind the new Stormbreaker computers. I came to watch this film because I have been a fan of the Alex Rider books for many years. However, I was rather disappointed by the film. The main problem was that the film was very different from the book, with many parts of the story changed and with parts added.
The ending was entirely made up for the film. I disliked the way that many of the actors chosen had no resemblance to how the character was described in the book. I also felt that many of the action and fighting scenes were overdone and the superfluous parts annoyed me.
The acting, particularly from the person playing Herod Sayle, was boring and unimaginative. The film was very jumpy in places, and I thought that people who had not read the books would have been confused by the ending. However, I still gave the film a 4 out of 10 rating because of the many usually unintentionally funny scenes.
I was particularly amused by Bill Nighy's acting in the role of Alan Blunt. Stephen Fry also added some comedy to the story in his role as Smithers. The film is reasonably watchable, probably because it only lasted 90 minutes.
Details Edit. Release date October 13, United States. United Kingdom United States Germany. Island Studios, Isle of Man.
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