Ender's Game is based on one of my favorite novels from when I was a kid. I made my kids read it, and even though they were reluctant, they thanked me aft. The acclaimed Orson Scott Card book about child soldiers in a galactic war game of survival gets a movie adaptation.
If only adapter-director Gavin Hood's movie had been tempered with craft and care and wasn't such a blunt instrument, one that seems designed. The movie makes him seem that way, and that softens both the character and the story. Ender's Game is not a perfect film.
It rushes through certain important points, and leaves out other parts altogether, instead what you get is a flawed but enjoyable movie that ultimately succeeds, because it always keeps its goal in sight. Certain things about this movie such as the justification for. 'Ender's Game' Review. It is an interesting and well-acted representation of a novel that has withstood the tests of time and changing paradigms with good reason. In the end, Ender's Game is just. good. It's not the most visually stunning, or brilliant sci-fi film of the year (there's that Gravity movie again. Ender endures endless training sessions where he faces down bullies and bonds with a tough girl (Hailee Steinfeld).
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He misses his pacifist sister (Abigail Breslin) on Earth, but rises in the ranks. The IF, though, has manipulated Ender to be the pawn in a final showdown the kid doesn't see coming. You are a very smart tween and you have big self-doubts.
If you haven't read the famous novel on which the movie is based, I. "Ender's Game" Movie Review. In the movie, the ending shows Ender flying off alone with the last remaining queen pupa of the buggers to save her race. In the novel, he leaves with Valentine to colonize the planets left vacant by the buggers and finds the queen pupa. Written and directed by Gavin Hood.