Ender's Game Film Review, Synopsis, Posters, Trailer

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Review

     Okay, here's the thing. Ummm.... how do I say this? This is a good movie for fans, a bad movie for everyone else.

     If you know the book (aka. you jumped up and down and screamed into a pillow when you found out that EG was being made into a Harrison Ford movie, like I did), you'll like the film version. Here are some of the reasons why: It's got great, fancy effects, an impressive cast, it's well acted, it follows the book relatively well, and no, they did not make Ender British even though the actor is from the UK. However, the make it or break it for this movie (well, for any movie really) is whether or not you can understand what is going on. It's no fun to see a movie and not get WTF is happening. If you're a fan, you will understand it, so another reason to like it.

     So why did I add that part about understanding movies? Well, if you haven't read the book, you probably won't understand half the movie. Here's the scoop: the screenwriting is kind of bad. Well, that's not fair. It's more like the transitions in this movie are bad. Similar to Upside Down, Ender's Game occasionally cuts between scenes without giving you information about the change. Ender will be in one place and then he'll be in a whole other without any information on how he got from point a to point b. He also spends a remarkable amount of time at point c, the point where the movie's director has no better way to convey a feeling than to have the character uselessly talk himself, or to inanimate objects. They don't do any character development with the Wiggin family at the beginning, and Ender is pulled away from them so fast that they never do get any character development. 

     Other than that (so, essentially, if you're a fan), EG is pretty good. Except, can I just say that Asa Butterfield's (Ender) American accent is sooooo frickin' annoying! He sounds a lot like a baby the whole movie. 

SIDENOTE: Orson Scott Card already got his check for this movie so boycotting it does 100% nothing towards stopping Card's hitlerish accusations against half the people on the planet.

Summary

     In this fast paced adventure, sci-fi, fantasy, action, thriller, space, war, drama, family (oh my god, that's a lot of genres) flick, Hugo's star Asa Butterfield plays the accidentally badass but also slightly psycho Ender Wiggin, an incredible prodigy who is brought to Battle School to prepare for the second invasion of Formic-Bugger-Alien things! Why a ten year old is the "only hope for humanity," I do not know. However, it's still a great story. 

Posters

Trailer