The plot too is slowed down – although there is enough slick whizz-bangery and set pieces to hold the attention while it grinds into gear. As a result, Alex’s loss is a real and motivating feature of the show. There are far fewer gadgets, and the relationship between Alex and his Uncle Ian (he starts as an orphan in the books, cared for and unwittingly trained in survival skills by “boring banker” Ian, played by Andrew Buchan) is established before the latter is killed in the line of secret duty.
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In the books, he has mad physical skills plus gadgets galore to help him on his missions, which occur at pace and in a variety of exotic locations (including space), strewn with villains presiding over the grandest of evil plans.Īlex has been aged a little for the television version, as has – more subtly – everything else. As it centres on a plot to release a deadly virus into schools, they must be on their knees thanking the god of bullets dodged.)įor those who have not had the pleasure – or who have not raised or engaged with child readers born after about 1990 – Alex Rider (played here by Otto Farrant, and bringing appreciably more to the role than is written into the serviceable script) is a teenage James Bond.
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(Stormbreaker, the inaugural adventure, was presumably skipped over by the TV execs as a result of the deeply unsuccessful film version that was released in 2006. This initial outing is based on the second book – Point Blanc – with the origin story from book one worked in so that we all know how an unassuming schoolboy becomes the keystone upon which the entirety of “a specialised subdivision of the British security intelligence service” depends. You would? Good news – Amazon Prime recognises you and delivers unto you an eight-part adaptation of Anthony Horowitz’s bestselling Alex Rider books.
W ould you by any chance – I’m just hazarding a guess – be in the mood for a little light relief? Would you seize an opportunity for mindless fun that will not deplete your emotional or mental resources in the same way that engaging with the real world – where to ingest one minute of headline news is to hole yourself beneath the psychic waterline – unavoidably does?
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