Young Ender Wiggin is recruited by the International Military to lead
the fight against the Formecs, a genocidal alien race which nearly
annihilated the human race in a previous invasion.
Director:
Writers:
Gavin Hood (screenplay),
Orson Scott Card (based on the book Ender's Game by)
Stars:
Harrison Ford,
Asa Butterfield,
Hailee Steinfeld
Story:
This entertaining adventure features a boy called Ender who is a sci-fi
mixture of Harry Potter and Lord Blakeney, the 11-year-old midshipman in
Master and Commander sensationally promoted to captain. I assumed it
had been adapted from some tweeny/young adult series of recent vintage;
it's actually an updating of a chunky 80s bestseller by Orson Scott
Card, an author now controversial for his creepy, reactionary political
views. Ender (Asa Butterfield) is a brilliant teenage military recruit
who lives in a future in which Earth is under threat of attack.
Our leaders find that only computer-literate teenage boys have the
necessary gaming skills and killer instinct to command hi-tech defence
fleets. (Teenage girls are allowed to be good at it, too … kind of.)
Ender has to master Quidditchy war games and full-rig battle
simulations, and forms a platonic tendresse for female recruit Petra
(Hailee Steinfeld) who is his Hermionesque BF. As his Napoleonic
brilliance and ruthlessness emerge, he is promoted by the boot camp
leader, who is Graff by name, gruff by nature and played by Harrison Ford.
He is moreover mentored by enigmatic Zen teacher Rackham, played by Ben
Kingsley with a startling Maori face tattoo and an entirely absurd New
Zealand icksint. The movie's apocalyptic finale indicates that it's
bitten off considerably more than it can chew in terms of ideas, but it
looks good, and the story rattles along.
Trailer:
Movie Rating (max. 5 Stars):
Summary:
After the movie trailer my anticipations were much higher than the real result of the cinema movie. The hole action scenes were shown in the trailer, for that there was not much suspense in this 2 hours. But the storyline was interesting and the actors were good, so a little .....
Box Office:
| Domestic Total as of Nov. 21, 2013: $55,218,473 | |
| Distributor: Lionsgate/Summit | Release Date: |
| Genre: Sci-Fi | Runtime: 1 hrs. 54 min. |
| MPAA Rating: PG-13 | Production Budget: $110 million |
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