Posts Tagged ‘Alex Pettyfer’
Alex Rider: Operation Stormbreaker (2006)
A teen James Bond thriller without any of the sex. Yes, I know, it’s pretty lame–not nearly as lame as Cody Banks, but still. On the other hand it does feature Alex Pettyfer as protagonist who, at 16, is arguably at the peak of his not insubstantial perfection as a human manifestation and which, if you’re a fan of such, makes up for large quantities of tedium. Call it the teen Bond swim-suit issue.
Tom Brown’s Schooldays (2005)
An ITV (the biggest commercial television network in the UK) version of the story based on Thomas Hughes’ 1857 book, I thought that any movie catalogued using the keywords “Beating, Punishment, Caning, Corporal Punishment, and Bullying” might be amusing. And although the actors were cute, as boys of caning age can be, the film had problems developing its characters consistently and resolving the story lines. Pity. Perhaps the 1940 film version with Freddie Bartholomew is better? At 3 hrs 39 mins it had better be.
