Looking back to when I read Ender's Game, written by Orson Scott, I remember really liking it. It was actually my favorite book at one point, and it got me into sci-fi action books sometime around 7th grade. Therefore since I liked the book so much, my review might be a little bit more critical. The movie, I thought, had all the potential to be good, but was not. A mixture of many problems made it feel unfulfilling. It was definitely rushed, and things like the flying shooting game were glanced over. The casting was good, but not great as Ben Kingsley's role was pretty un-satisfactory, and I also don't think Harrison Ford really fit his role as I see him as Indiana Jones and Han Solo, not a man who sits back and watches from a distance. The main concept of the movie/book is that it is hard to be a good leader, and that there are many struggles and difficulties that come with leadership. I think this movie did that well, as I felt like it stayed focused in that regard. However the brutality of the fight, and the devastating story about children going into battle was also not properly depicted. The end of the movie Ender gets mad with himself and with the battle, because he realizes he kills a whole race. The characters acknowledge this being a problem (genocide) for about 2 minutes before they put Ender to sleep, and then he wakes up and is obsessed with his sister again (what was up with that???). I just think Ender, and also his friends (who weren't even shown in the last 30 minutes of the movie after the battle), had a very lame response to killing the whole race of aliens, and it was very unsatisfactory and annoying since it was described so well in the book. This movie is a 6/10.
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