Director: Gavin Hood
★ ★ ★ ★ ☆
Though it begins with the usual guff about aliens attacking earth years before, this sci-fi adventure continues with a sturdy and serious tone and actually ends being rather thoughtful. In anticipation of the aliens attacking again, the military is training up youngsters, and the fleet commander (Harrison Ford) has his hopes pinned on Ender (Asa Butterfield), whom he thinks can one day destroy their enemies. It’s Star Trek with kids, except not in any way juvenile, with the first half or more taking up by training, and though there’s a lot of stuff we’ve seen before in Harry Potter or The Hunger Games, it does provide moments of brilliance. But when it finally gets down to it, Ender’s Game proves itself to be surprisingly weighty in its tackling of military foreign policies, as well as providing a commanding character in Ender and some cracking action to boot.
THANK YOU for basing your review on the actual movie, and not the personal views of Orson Scott Card. Whether others agree with what he believes or not, the quality of the film has nothing to do with the personal views of the writer of the book the movie is based on. This reasoning seems to be lost on many reviewers...
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