They quickly promote Ender to command school where he will be trained to command against the formics. But the whole time the film builds towards a really remarkable conclusion, one that when it come is both morose and uplifting. How did they get there in time?? The emotion is very much there, and anyone willing to give this film a try will not be disappointed. It delivers more than we had a right to expect. His distinguishing feature is his intelligence, and the slow talking Asa Butterfield almost seemed to be concentrating on his lines and being able to deliver them in an American accent rather then speaking like one of the most intelligent 12 year old's on the planet. Unless sequels are planned then we could probably have done without Ender's family background and relationship with his sister and brother and devoted more to the Battle School. As it turns out Gavin Hood was the director to bring this to life.
Ender Wiggin, a quiet but brilliant boy, may become the savior of the human race. The Acting by Harrison Ford and Asa Butterfield is one of the strengths this project has. Ender Wiggin, a quiet but brilliant boy, may become the savior of the human race. Orson Scott Card may be homophobic but the powerful message at the heart of this film says much more than the average Hollywood film is capable of delivering. We're barely 10 minutes into the movie before Ender is blasted off to battle school. Even though that was the case the look of the transparent walls of the battle room with Earth looming in the background carried enough weight as eye candy to make me want to see all the battles that Ender winds up winning with Dragon army.
The fleet left right after the buggers did! He is separated from his beloved sister and his terrifying brother and brought to battle school in orbit around earth. Fifty years later, the people of Earth remain banded together to prevent their own annihilation from this technologically superior alien species. There was no character development for Enders fellow classmates, other then Petra this movie could have been written without any of them and probably would have been better off for it. He will be tested and honed into an empathetic killer who begins to despise what he does as he learns to fight in hopes of saving Earth and his family. He will be tested and honed into an empathetic killer who begins to despise what he does as he learns to fight in hopes of saving Earth and his family. It's one of the most striking endings to a film like this in a long time. Right from the beginning I was disappointed with the portrayal of Ender.
You get no sense of who any of the characters are. The battle room looked fantastic. Ender Wiggin, a quiet but brilliant boy, may become the savior of the human race. Ender Wiggin, a quiet but brilliant boy, may become the savior of the human race. I can only imagine they were as hype as I was going into and let there preconceived notions of how great this movie would be take over for the time being.
My only real criticism of the film is that it's too short, not something you normally hear from me. The movie had to overcome years of development hell, a questionable production team and controversy surrounding the authors political ideals. These kids shouldn't have been smiling at all, there should have been cold calculating looks on there faces with intelligence in there eyes and barrack talk coming out of their mouths. They maintain a tense and believable relationship that is very much like the original story. The battle game is barely in the movie.
Only one major sub-plot about Ender's siblings back home on earth is omitted which in my opinion was a wise choice, because taking the story away from battle school would have hurt the flow of the film. Three stars just because it was recognizable as Ender's game I saw the trailer for Enders Game about 6 weeks ago, its piqued my interest so I investigated and wound up reading the book. Ender Wiggin, a quiet but brilliant boy, may become the savior of the human race. Other supporters like Abigail Breslin, Hailee Steinfeld and Ben Kingsley also bring a lot of charisma to the screen and make even small roles memorable. It's not all perfect however, there is a little problem with some of the heavy exposition dumps in the film.
Ender Wiggin, a quiet but brilliant boy, may become the savior of the human race. They changed up part of this story and skipped over some of the deeper explanation about the ansible and sending the fleet to attack the buggers planet 50 years earlier immediately following the first invasion, but i feel this lack of detail left the following scenes less emotional then they could have been. All the back story about Ender and his family, his turbulent relationship with his older brother Peter and his delicate relationship with this sister Valentine, plus a lot of the history of the alien invasion are largely skimmed over and this lack of depth hurts the movie. Plus a couple of the actors most notably Viola Davis seem lost and don't know what kind of movie they're supposed to be doing. Everyone moves to his lunch table because he insults Bernard in class? The special effects are nothing groundbreaking.
But despite all the odds, Ender's Game winds up as a very good movie that just barely misses on being a great one. Overall its a really good movie that I would highly recommend, it's far more that the Star Wars meets Hunger Games tag its been given by so many. However Asa Butterfields acting didn't sell it. The actors are great, Asa Butterfield absolutely owns the role of Ender Wiggin, effortlessly switching emotional gears when needed. He is separated from his beloved. At no point do they attempt to explain why Ender is chosen to be the commander of the entire Earth fleet.
Fifty years later, the people of Earth remain banded together to prevent their own annihilation from this technologically superior alien species. Ender's Game was much better than I expected and surprisingly so given the years it has been in development hell with various names attached to it. . He will be tested and honed into an empathetic killer who begins to despise what he does as he learns to fight in hopes of saving Earth and his family. I don't mind that they had to change things around, I realize it had to be done, however they tried too hard to take a little bit of each section of the book and put them all together with out realizing that without enough detail the smaller samples were not realistic or convincing. If you have any legal issues please contact the appropriate media file owners or host sites. The film does not shy away from the brutality of the lives that these young recruits lead, at least not within the confines of a 12A film, and the ending is as shocking and moving as it should be.