Alex Rider: Operation Stormbreaker

If there's a pressing need for a teen version of James Bond-style spy tales, it's not apparent: Twelve-year-olds are already watching the real thing. That said, U.K. novelist Anthony Horowitz's Alex Rider books are preteen best sellers and, as a way station between the SPY KIDS pictures and the hard stuff, director Geoffrey Sax's adaptation beats the stuffing out of the vapid CODY BANKS movies. Orphaned Alex Rider (Alex Pettyfer) has been raised by his uncle, globetrotting banker Ian (Ewan McGregor) and American housekeeper/factotum Jack (Alicia Silverstone) since childhood. Imagine Alex's surprise when, after Ian dies in a car accident, he learns that his uncle wasn...