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The new breathtaking film, “Ender’s Game,” starring Asa Butterfield as Ender Wiggin, begins with Ender living at home as the “third” child. Having a third child is no longer allowed unless you pay and get permission from the government. Meanwhile, aliens have attacked Earth, and people are doing everything they can to be ready to destroy them the next time they come close, even if it means preparing children to terminate them. Ender ends up as one of those children, thinking it could be a way to get away from his violent brother.

In this sci-fi fantasy, children like Ender are split into groups, training in zero gravity arenas against each other in a space camp. Ender, starting as the oddball loner of the group, works his way to the top, showing off not only his bravery but confidence in what he can do. He becomes not only the chief of his training group, but the leader of the best training group in battle school.

The main commanders of the battle school see the motivation and progress Ender has made throughout his stay and give him a psychological test. They determine his strengths and weaknesses so they can push him to be the best to eliminate the foreign creatures. Before the aliens attack, Ender learns more about these creatures, and his curiosity about them turns into sympathy. He wonders if they are even bad at all. He comes up with a plan for the moment the battle begins. But before they can even go into battle they must go through “graduation” practice, which simulates an actual battle with the aliens. When they finish, he and his team look up at the crowd of commanders waiting for gratitude on passing the graduation. Silence. Ender realizes what has happened. What have the commanders done? Ender storms out of the room crying. Could this affect Ender’s plan?

The dynamics of this film taking place in outer space and the action-adventure reels you in and pulls you to the edge of your seat. You may find yourself holding your breath a few times or curling your toes in your shoes. Bits and pieces of humor give the movie even more points. Butterfield does a good job developing his character throughout the movie.

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Ender’s Game is a hero’s journey in the form of a sci-fi fantasy film. Adapted from Orson Scott Card’s 1985 book of the same name, the film transports you into a simulated video-gaming arena.

The film begins with a frame that quotes to the effect, “When I understand my enemy well enough, I start to love him.” And the denouement substantiates this.

What follows the first frame is a Star Wars like scenario with a cramped up voiceover informing the audience that, in the not too distant future, an alien race, known as the Formics, will attempt to colonize earth. Their attempt is foiled by a heroic pilot, Mazer Rackham (Ben Kingsley) who sacrifices himself in the process.

Ever since, the earth’s leaders have been gearing up to repel any further attacks.

Fifty years later, with no intervening attack, the leaders put in place a scheme, whereby gifted children are monitored, selected and trained to take on any returning alien forces.

One such child is Andrew “Ender” Wiggin (Asa Butterfield). He is selected for his intelligence and killer instincts to solve problems, just the sort of quality military leader Colonel Hyrum Graff (Harrison Ford) is looking for.

Ender’s Game has lots of psychological intonations and messages that are free-flowing in the form of dialogues. The most pronounced one comes at the very end when Ender tries to analyze if he is actually a hero or a killer.

Graff announces, “We won, is all that matters,” to which Ender retorts, “The way we win matters.”

This does put an end to the debate, but not the film.

Asa Butterfield, earlier seen in Hugo, is the soul of the film. As Andrew Ender he is endearing and subtle. He earnestly portrays the conflicted child-genius with empathy, who longs to be with his sister Valentine, played by Abigail Breslin.

Abigail has a considerably tiny role and seems wasted in the film so does Hailee Steinfeld as Petra Arkanian, Ender’s Battle School Companion.

The other kids at the Battle School are mostly stereotypical. They too have very little to do to really shine, but they perform much better than expected.

Ford is engaging. But with all the youngsters around, he seems tired, weary and jaded by comparison. Viola Davis counter balances Ford with her humane approach. Ben Kingsley with a tattooed visage hams awfully.

The production quality is good.

Visually, the frames are attractive, the cosmic fireworks along with the space station with a zero gravity combat practice room for kids seems to be often seen in some previously released film.

The background score by Steve Jablonsky is effective, especially the drone buzz at the end when Ender goes to visit the Formic. It has a remarkable effect, on screen.

Compared to the novel, Writer Director Gavin Hood’s narration starts off on a tad tedious note, making it difficult to figure out the plot during the first act. The story settles in the second half and rushes forth with lots of action, emotional turmoil and thrill. The ending has a good, but not entirely satisfying twist to it. The film plateaus at the climax and somehow lacks the “wow” factor. source: http://tribune.com.pk/story/626185/movie-review-enders-game-movie-lacks-wow-factor/

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The book ‘Ender’s Game’, by Orson Scott Card, stands as one of the best sci-fi titles ever written, which has made turning its sweeping story of alien invasion and complex simulations into a film that retains the heart and ethical dilemma faced by the main character, Ender Wiggin, a daunting task. Rumors of cinematic adaptations have swirled around the industry for almost 25 years.

With the cooperation of Card, director Gavin Hood took on the challenge and the result is an engaging, epic, science fiction film that captures what’s so exciting about the original story while offering up enough visual delights for even the most cynical fan.

The story takes place fifty years after the Formics, an alien bug-like race, attack Earth and kill millions before Mazer Rackham (Ben Kingsley) sacrifices himself in a kamikaze attack on the alien mother ship, thereby saving humanity. In the interim period, Earth has become paranoid, training younger and younger children to fight the aliens, preparing for when the Formics return and again threaten our planet. Ender (Asa Butterfield) is a “third” child, unusual in this future world. Both his older brother Peter (Jimmy Pinchak) and older sister Valentine (Abigail Breslin) have washed out of Battle School, Peter for being too quick to violence and Valentine for being too sympathetic.

Ender is a brilliant and an egotistical tactician who is constantly having to defend himself against bullies. When he does, however, he finds, to his disgust, that he is more like his violent brother Peter and less like his gentle sister than he’d like. One older classmate bullies him and Ender beats him, barely stopping from killing the boy. “It’s not just this fight I want to win, it’s all future fights too.”

That’s the key theme of the film: not whether you win the battle, but how you fight. The gruff and almost humorless Colonel Graff (Harrison Ford) is convinced that against the hated alien race how you fight is irrelevant. It’s whether you win. And win for all time, not just a single battle. Balancing that out is Major Gwen Anderson (Viola Davis), who as psych officer for the Battle School represents the gentle, nurturing approach of Valentine, even as Graff is clearly the adult Peter in spirit.

There are many simulated battles in a large zero gravity enclosure — Battle School is a floating space station above Earth — and while they don’t seem directly relevant to the battle against the Formics, they allow Ender to demonstration his unusual tactical and strategic approach, one that earns him many enemies but just as many admirers as he keeps leading his groups to victory.

The Formics are amassing on their home planet again, however, and in one somewhat confusing scene we learn that they’re only 28-days away from Earth. Another invasion? There’s no time to lose. Except that timeline is never mentioned again and subsequent to that scene Ender refers to “days and days, months and months of simulated battle”, making me wonder what happened to that 28-day deadline?

The computer graphics are terrific in ‘Ender’s Game’ and the final simulated battles on the Formic home planet are far better than the rather mild wire-work combat simulations earlier in the film. We’ve become accustomed to good visuals in science fiction epics like the technically impressive ’Gravity’, but I couldn’t help think how far we’ve come from the floating space station in ’2001: A Space Odyssey’ when we first head towards the Battle School in ‘Ender’s Game’.

The greatest weakness in the film, however, is the acting. Asa does a credible job as Ender, though there were a few points where I’d have liked to see more emotion rather than his alternating stoic and tear-filled eyes, but the weak link is the usually quite likable Abigail Breslin. There’s a critical scene on Earth when she (Valentine) must convince Ender to go back to Battle School to help save humanity, and the entire scene needed to have been reshot. When you see the movie you’ll know exactly what I mean. Both actors needed to emote, but instead it’s flat, so flat that it’s hard to imagine how she could have convinced him to row their raft back to shore, let alone go back into space.

Still, ‘Ender’s Game’ is a film well worth seeing even with these weaknesses. The story offers a profound exploration of the morality of battle, killing and genocide through both Graff’s manipulation of Ender and Ender’s own experience and reaction to the climactic simulated battle. And while the film is cast somewhat as a teen adventure in the vein of ‘The Hunger Games’ or ‘Harry Potter’, there’s much to enjoy in this sci-fi epic coming of age tale. source: http://sciencefiction.com/2013/11/02/film-review-enders-game/