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Genre | Science Fiction & Fantasy |
Format | Multiple Formats, Ultraviolet, Color, NTSC, Ultraviolet, Digital_copy |
Contributor | Abigail Breslin, Harrison Ford, Gavin Hood |
Language | English |
Number Of Discs | 1 |
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In the near future, a hostile alien race has attacked Earth. If not for the legendary heroics of International Fleet Commander Mazer Rackham (Ben Kingsley), all would have been lost. In preparation for the next attack, the highly esteemed Colonel Hyrum Graff (Harrison Ford) and the International Military are training the best and brightest young children to find the future Mazer. Ender Wiggin (Asa Butterfield), a shy, but strategically brilliant boy is pulled out of his school to join the elite.
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The climactic battle scene that builds to a spectacular crescendo in Ender's Game is at least as thrilling as the overall visual splendor of Gravity. The difference is that Ender's Game makes its mark as an all-out science fiction extravaganza as opposed to Gravity's masterful attempt to reproduce science fact. The similarity is the photorealistic sensationalism that both movies deliver. Ender's Game revels in imaginary futurism full of gleaming spaceships, high-tech gadgetry, and a galactic war against an alien race that have a stunning reality of their own. It also tries hard to convey a soulful moral message. Based on the popular series of books by Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game is aimed at the same young adult crowd that gobbled up franchises like Twilight and The Hunger Games, but it has plenty to satisfy older audiences too. Ender Wiggin is a pubescent genius selected for training in an elite battle school some 70 years after an apocalyptic global attack by the insectlike Formics that killed tens of millions. The Formics were defeated, but the threat of their return remains and it's up to children like Ender to become strategic commanders who will take up the mantle of defending Earth. The martial sensibility of a child army is crisp and believable in the scenes of boot camp on space stations and distant planet outposts. Asa Butterfield (Hugo) makes Ender the scrawny, brilliant misfit who really may be a savior to end the Formic threat forever. He's bullied and alienated, a theme that recurs throughout the story in many ways and comes full circle in the brutal, beautiful finale. His mentor and tormentor is Colonel Graff, the grizzled commander who believes Ender is "the one," but must hide some essential truths as a measure of control. Harrison Ford makes a bang-up return to stardom as Graff with barely dimmed wattage that pays more than a little homage to Han Solo. That Ender believes he's involved in an elaborate game gives a cruel irony to his training, his relationship with Graff, and his interaction with the large, highly capable multiethnic cast of kids that populate the movie (Hailee Steinfeld and Abigail Breslin are particularly good as Ender's best friend and beloved sister, respectively). For most people the dazzling CGI imagery will probably be the real star of the movie. Every aspect of the digital sorcery is immaculate. Standing on a command stage using gestural controls to fight the Formic army, Ender becomes literal conductor of a symphony of special effects in a conflict with echoes of the tribulations that have pretty much defined his young life. It's probably safe to assume that we'll see Ender again, which is an exciting prospect for his character and the constantly evolving science of moviemaking magic. --Ted Fry
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- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- MPAA rating : PG-13 (Parents Strongly Cautioned)
- Product Dimensions : 0.6 x 5.3 x 7.5 inches; 2.4 ounces
- Item model number : 28928809
- Director : Gavin Hood
- Media Format : Multiple Formats, Ultraviolet, Color, NTSC, Ultraviolet, Digital_copy
- Run time : 114 minutes
- Release date : February 11, 2014
- Actors : Harrison Ford, Abigail Breslin
- Studio : Lionsgate
- ASIN : B008JFUNHI
- Country of Origin : USA
- Number of discs : 1
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Now on to my movie review: I read Ender's Game, 13 years ago as a freshman in high school. While the movie adaptation of Ender's Game condenses a lot of what happened in battle school, omits a lot of the politics that was happening on Earth, and glosses over the friendship between Ender and Bean, I was impressed with how the movie retained the essence of the book. Probably the most enjoyable part of the movie was seeing their interpretation of Battle School. Given how advanced technology is today, at least compared to 2001, the special effects were better than I imagined.
In truth, I believe that the entire Ender's Universe would have been better served as a mini-series or a TV show, especially if it focused on the Ender's Shadow series as I think the general public would have related better with what was happening on EARTH than in Space. The film itself, wasn't very accommodating for a movie franchise or even a sequel, even though it did leave things "open-ended" enough.
A huge round of applause should be given to the casting. The casting of Asa Butterfield as Andrew 'Ender' Wiggin, the titular 'hero,' is perfection. He played Ender's conflicting emotions, vulnerabilities and viciousness with a sincere conviction beyond someone his age should be able to portray. He truly is talented young man and I hope he continues acting because his future and career are bright. I was completely okay with them aging up all the characters, because let's be honest, it'd be difficult to find a believable precocious young actor to portray a 6 year old and then to a 12/13 year old commander.
My favorite scenes involved him commanding his jeesh or confronting his enemies, including even Graff. Some of the best scenes in the movie was solely just Asa's Ender going head to head with Harrison Ford's Colonel Graff. Speaking of, Harrison Ford is perfect as Colonel Graff, I think if the movie had been a success and a potential sequel was in the making, he'd have the necessary gruff kindness to play Bean's confidante. And while the gender change in Anderson threw me for a second, I love Viola Davis, she's just a fantastic actress and her Anderson is a great reminder that these soldiers in Battle school are in fact kids, who have to return to "normal" life after the war. And another brilliant nugget of casting was Nonso Anozie as Sergeant Dap. I couldn't help shout out "Game of Thrones!" whenever he appeared on screen.
I remember back in 2001, the book was always stuck in perpetual rumors of being in pre-production or casting, with names like Haley Joel Osment being thrown around as possible candidates to play Ender. 12 years later, I think the movie was made and released at the right time with the right cast, just the circumstances around the book being 28 years old and Orson Scott Card's personal statements, mired the movie's potential success. If it weren't for the boycotting, the movie could have done better, and maybe the marketing could have pushed a near 30 year old book better, but it's truly a pity most high schoolers aren't required to read this book anymore and most kids these days don’t know much about the series.
Which was why it was also such a pity that Bean wasn't more significant in the movie adaptation. I had read that Orson Scott Card’s initial drafts to the movie adaptation of Ender’s Game were to have it centered more on Ender and Bean’s friendship. THIS WOULD HAVE BEEN THE RIGHT DIRECTION. But the director preferred pushing Ender and Petra’s friendship, which is fine, but it killed any potential opportunity for a true Shadows sequel, which in my opinion would have made better movies. Plus, Bean gets Petra in the end. Has nine children with her and he is the love of her life.
Part of the problem I had with the other books in Ender's series after Ender's Game is that Ender's story was interesting because not only of the war he ends, but the people IN the book he meets. The afore mentioned Bean and Petra, Alai, Dink, Shen, Graff, etc. These were all his friends and allies that don't appear in the sequels (aside from Ender in Exile - written AFTER Bean's Shadow sequels), so why would anyone care about them?
The truth is, restoring the Formics' world is admirable of Ender, especially how Ender's guilt consumed him, but reading about it? Not as interesting. Learning about battle school and how Ender dealt with the pressures of the school, his actions in defending himself, and the war was interesting. But basing a franchise around his travels in space with the Formics, just isn't appealing.
I think this is why Ender's Shadow would have made a better "franchise" starter. You start it with Ender's Game, introducing both Ender and Bean, blending both Ender's Game and Ender's Shadow. Then continue on to the beginning of Ender in Exile, then Shadow of the Hegemon, Shadow Puppets, Shadow of the Giant, and then back to Ender in Exile and end it with Ender's travels in space.
What's done is done. This is a great "companion" movie to go with the novel, Ender's Game. As a huge fan of the Ender Shadow's series and the book Ender's Game, I thought everybody did the best they could with the budget and time constraints. Again, I already mentioned that it's a pity they didn't go with Card's initial draft of the movie, but what's done is done. I only hope in the future sometime, the books will be made into a miniseries as the stories and characters themselves are certainly deserving.
All of the acting in the movie was great. I was especially impressed by two of the child actors: First Asa Butterfield, his facial expressions plainly showed his feeling of isolation and fear as well as his determination and his calculating mind; Secondly I was impressed by Moises Arias, it is rare for me to feel compassion for a character who is plainly a bully but Moises Arias pulled that off. I did not feel anywhere near the level of compassion for him which Ender felt but enough to understand Ender's reaction. Since the idea of Ender feeling compassion for the bully ties in with the overall theme it was an important characteristic.
However the movie did not fully explain why they were training children in their earlier teens to be the International Fleet Commander nor did it really show why Ender was that special. At the same time I did feel early in the movie that something was missing, and I now feel that what I missed was reading the book before watching the movie. I watched this movie with almost no prior knowledge of the story. I had watched some interviews with some of the cast along with some short clips and a little "making of" footage, but not enough to really explain anything. Ben Kingsley's brief interview and the special effects are what caught my attention.
After watching the special-features and both commentaries included on the Blu-ray I now understand the theory of training the young teens as commanders. I still find it a little far fetched, but I understand that the book and the movie are targeting preteen to early teen audiences which would be far more accepting of the theory. I can set-aside by doubts in the theory and enjoy the movie on its terms once I understand its terms. The same thing goes for Ender's special abilities, they are more fully explained in the special-features, and apparently were more fully explained in the book. I also gathered from the special-features that the main problem in fully addressing these very important plot points was time, as it is the movie is almost two hours long. I think the book should have been divided into three movies, one for the first school which was almost totally skipped by this movie, one for the battle school, and one for command school.
The movie's second strongest feature (the first being the superb acting) is its special effects, they are great, especially in battle school. This would be another reason for making a full movie of just battle school, the special effects would be spectacular. The special effects in command school were also good but way to brief, if a full movie had been devoted for command school the special effects there would probably surpass battle school.
I watched the movie four times. Once with no outside knowledge of the story, then after watching the special-features I watched the movie with each of the two commentaries, and then I watched it again with the movie sound track. If you are not at all familiar with the story I would suggest watching the movie first because if you watch the special-features and commentaries first you would also gain knowledge which would detract from your enjoyment of the ending of the movie, but be sure to watch the special-features and commentaries afterwards to fill in the blanks.
One final thing, this movie reminded be strongly of three prior movies. First of all, the pro-military government and the war with bugs in space reminded me of "Starship Troopers;" using video games to train, and assess military candidates reminded me of "The Last Starfighter;" and Ender's use of "the little Doctor" reminded me something in "Star Wars," but to tell what would be a major spoiler.
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Respecto a la película "el juego de Ender", es una muy buena película de ciencia ficción, remake proveniente del libro homónimo de Orson Scott Card.
Reviewed in Spain on January 16, 2024
Respecto a la película "el juego de Ender", es una muy buena película de ciencia ficción, remake proveniente del libro homónimo de Orson Scott Card.