Alex Rider (2020)

Watchseries; It's OK and has its strengths. It starts off well. The parts before Alex gets into his stride as an agent are by far the best. Every scene with Brenock O'Connor in is excellent - he steals the show, which is a big achievement because he had only a hackneyed stock character ("hero's cheery friend") to work with. Otto Farrant does a workmanlike job and is best in those early scenes, but he has insufficient charisma to carry the series. It's a tough role: once Alex becomes action man all nuance has gone and this version does nothing to make him more interesting. They've even taken away his gimmicky toys. When he gets his makeover to become Alex Friend, it's built up as an event, but in reality he just gets a slightly shorter haircut. There is no attempt to make him seem a bad boy who might need to be sent to a reformatory. In fact the Point Blanc school nearly kills the whole thing. It's a boring place, visually and in every way. It's lifeless and the scenes there go on too long. The tiny number of other students there are dull even before anything happens to them. James (the one who looks like Snape) sometimes has an Australian accent, but that's just about his only interesting feature. The plot collapses during the Point Blanc scenes (vast holes open up, which I won't go into). Almost all the adult roles are cardboard characters and the biggest names in the cast are playing them. It might all improve if there are future series, but Otto Farrant is already well over age for the role of a schoolboy, so I don't know how that would work.

It's OK and has its strengths. It starts off well. The parts before Alex gets into his stride as an agent are by far the best. Every scene with Brenock O'Connor in is excellent - he steals the show, which is a big achievement because he had only a hackneyed stock character ("hero's cheery friend") to work with. Otto Farrant does a workmanlike job and is best in those early scenes, but he has insufficient charisma to carry the series. It's a tough role: once Alex becomes action man all nuance has gone and this version does nothing to make him more interesting. They've even taken away his gimmicky toys. When he gets his makeover to become Alex Friend, it's built up as an event, but in reality he just gets a slightly shorter haircut. There is no attempt to make him seem a bad boy who might need to be sent to a reformatory. In fact the Point Blanc school nearly kills the whole thing. It's a boring place, visually and in every way. It's lifeless and the scenes there go on too long. The tiny number of other students there are dull even before anything happens to them. James (the one who looks like Snape) sometimes has an Australian accent, but that's just about his only interesting feature. The plot collapses during the Point Blanc scenes (vast holes open up, which I won't go into). Almost all the adult roles are cardboard characters and the biggest names in the cast are playing them. It might all improve if there are future series, but Otto Farrant is already well over age for the role of a schoolboy, so I don't know how that would work.

Alex Rider watchseries. The buildup was nice and really liked this show going in a right way . There were some weak points too like some weak action scenes but that's gonna ne fine in next season. A good plot tho.

Great spy romp with a touch of sci-fi too! Never read the book but can honestly say this was a breath of fresh air.

We tried but were unamused by the English timing (slow). If you are a 14 year old girl, this is probably for you. If you have a mortgage payment to make, skip it and watch BOSCH or something for grown ups. It is about a boy's school that spawns world leaders in bad and good. A hard pass by this adult.

Not read any books so had no preconceptions. The story goes at a super slow pace and is somewhat predictable Alex himself is suppose to be a school kid but would be more suited to a university student age wise same goes for the other supposed teens! However the most unforgivable part is the portrayal of secret service God forbid they are that dumb ! Inspector Cluseau would give them a run for their money they are that bad. A teenager may enjoy the show they probably won't see the massive plot holes an older audience would Sadly I am not that young and I find them dam annoying

Without reading any of the details, this looked interesting and after 10 mins I was intrigued. Solid British acting with believable characters and several moving parts to a single story line.

It's a bit straight forward with a few curves and is therefore predictable but still a worthwhile watch. But by the 3rd and 4th episode it's run out of ideas and can't seem to put together an ending.