Stormbreaker reviews

Bill Nighy – Alan Blunt, Stormbreaker – “We want you to work for us”

MI6 is represented, inevitably, by Bill Nighy whose faintly bizarre tics and swallowed syllables are just right for an uptight M figure.
The Guardian

Bill Nighy is a camp and deadpan joy as the careless boss of the Secret Service, Mr Blunt. He wears Eric Morecambe glasses and a thin moustache, and every line he utters is a clipped and sardonic masterpiece.
The Times

… Alex is about to learn from Bill Nighy’s gloriously quirky MI6 spymaster (was he modelled on a Pathé newscaster?) that he is to be his uncle’s replacement and sent to investigate the suspicious goings-on at flamboyantly attired tycoon Darrius Sayle’s (Mickey Rourke) overly secure high-tech installation.
TimeOut

Bill Nighy delivers another scene stealing performance here, even eating a biscuit he manages to get a laugh.

“As soon as you cut to Bill Nighy you start laughing, don’t you? That biscuit scene was amazing, funnily enough, because the laughter it got drowned out what was happening next. You go from the munching of the biscuit into boots marching in the training camp, but the audience laughed and drowned that out. It was literally a last minute idea on the set, I asked the prop man if he had any biscuits, and of course you give Bill a comedy moment and he gives you so much more than you expect.”
Stormbreak director on locations

BBC has a short article about Stormbreaker being partly filmed on the Isle of Man.

“Nighy, who starred in Love Actually and Pirates of the Caribbean, said: “I’ve been to the island lots of times on many different films and thank God for the Isle of Man.

“Virtually all British films under a certain budget would not get made if it was not for the Isle of Man and Isle of Man Film. I like [the Island] very much.”

Nighy had recently described the island in an interview as “a cross between Cornwall and Ireland”.
Read the article on the BBC website