Enders Game
The International Military is looking for a leader who can save humanity from the alien attack. Ender Wiggin, a talented young person, was recruited and trained to lead his teammates into a battle that will decide future of the Earth.
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May 10, 2016
Based on a hit novel by Orson Scott Card, this futurist sci-fi film trudges along in perpetual low gear, its efforts at times laboured, despite a no-nonsense turn by Asa Butterfield as the game-theorist boy of the title.
April 10, 2016
Butterfield is excellent in the title role, several cuts above his fellow young cast members.
April 08, 2014
It is its book, put on the screen without any new thought whatsoever. A seventh grader could watch it and write a passable essay about it. I doubt they'd have much fun with it, though.
June 22, 2016
Far too benign and, in this blockbuster season, far too tired to leave any bad taste in the mouth, Ender's Game is better the less one thinks about it.
November 18, 2013
If you dislike child actors, you might derive a perverse satisfaction from seeing dozens of them look so unhappy to be onscreen.
July 14, 2016
A leaden, confusing affair that's all the more frustrating because there's a kernel of a good, possibly even great, movie here.
November 18, 2013
There are times when a certain grimness weighs on the movie that you wish for more humor. But overall it's an absorbing and thought-provoking spectacle.
November 19, 2013
While the picture loses some plot tension by assuring the viewer that Ender is basically an okay kid, it gains by showing the growth of the boy into his destiny as "the One."
May 20, 2016
It takes itself a bit too seriously and would have benefited from twisting the entertainment dial a little higher, but it's refreshing to see a film filled with teens that's intelligent and reflective.
November 18, 2013
Straightforward, a bit literal-minded, very faithful to the book and largely compelling.
November 04, 2013
Hard to comprehend and even harder to endure.
December 10, 2013
Enough people attended Ender's Game last weekend to place it at the top of the box office. But could any of them have known how profoundly unspectacular an experience they were in for?
