Ender's Game

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Ender's Game

PG-13

2013

1h 54m

Sci-Fi

Adventure

Action

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When hostile aliens called the Formics attack Earth, only the legendary heroics of Mazer Rackham (Ben Kingsley) manage to attain a victory. To prepare for the next attack, Col. Hyrum Graff (Harrison Ford) and his cohorts initiate a military program to find the next Mazer. Recruit Ender Wiggin (Asa Butterfield) exhibits an unusual gift for the training, easily mastering all of the challenges thrown at him. Mazer Rackham, himself, takes Ender as a protege to prepare him for the oncoming war.

Critics Consensus

If it isn't quite as thought-provoking as the book, Ender's Game still manages to offer a commendable number of well-acted, solidly written sci-fi thrills.

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Larushka Ivan-Zadeh

metro.co.uk

09/06/2017

4/5

Starship Troopers, Alien, Tron and Star Trek also make up the movie's DNA but the story - a provocative study about the morality of warfare and conflicts of leadership - injects something powerful and new into the familiar 'chosen one' plot trajectory.

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Geoffrey Macnab

Independent (UK)

02/21/2014

2/5

The battle scenes are spectacular but lifeless and hard to engage with. We're watching a cascade of computer-game imagery.

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David Stratton

At the Movies (Australia)

02/18/2014

2.5/5

It was a bit like standing in a room where someone is playing a video game on a screen and you're not actually taking part in it but you have to watch interminably this game being played and it's just really a bit boring.

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JD Duran

InSession Film

08/15/2024

B+

Ender’s Game is a fun, dramatic look that is different and unique for most sci-fi movies. While it follows the basic trope of alien invasion, it quickly turns into a moral dilemma that involves some heavy and complex themes.

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Matt Brunson

Film Frenzy

09/08/2023

2/4

Not having read Card’s novel, I couldn’t say whether it was truly “unfilmable,” but what ends up on the screen is indeed “filmable” in that we’ve seen these narrative threads countless times before in science fiction cinema.

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Brian Eggert

Deep Focus Review

08/22/2022

2/4

A joyless video game experience, complete with levels of increasing difficulty and a main character who never really faces a true conflict.

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Geo

@Geodetic Jan 19

A great rendition with too many creative revisions. Stick to the source material.

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Nigel S

@Funkleberry Jan 18

The ho-hum RT scores reflect a ho-hum movie. The fact that it was all a simulation meant that the protagonists were never in any more danger than being in a video arcade, leading to a lame finish. Seemingly most of the messages in the book were tossed out like balast in a hot air balloon, leaving only hot air behind. Passed the time, but there are many better movies out there!

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TheKallse

@SG546 Dec 28

The acting is ridiculous and the story is far-fetched. Brain torture.

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David B.

Nov 29

Incredibly slow & boring, I gave up after 1 hour & 12 minutes.

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M4R10ooo S

Nov 22

A criminally underrated sci-fi film with strong central performances, action and an amazing ending.

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Leaburn O

Sep 25

I usually enjoy sci fi and here’s another decent one. Not enormous philosophical depth but enough to keep things interesting. A bit of a leadership guru’s wet dream. Watched on Amazon Prime.

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Synopsis

When hostile aliens called the Formics attack Earth, only the legendary heroics of Mazer Rackham (Ben Kingsley) manage to attain a victory. To prepare for the next attack, Col. Hyrum Graff (Harrison Ford) and his cohorts initiate a military program to find the next Mazer. Recruit Ender Wiggin (Asa Butterfield) exhibits an unusual gift for the training, easily mastering all of the challenges thrown at him. Mazer Rackham, himself, takes Ender as a protege to prepare him for the oncoming war.

Director: Gavin Hood
Producer: Gigi Pritzker, Linda McDonough, Alex Kurtzman, Roberto Orci, Robert Chartoff, Lynn Hendee, Orson Scott Card, Ed Ulbrich
Screenwriter: Gavin Hood
Distributor: Summit Entertainment
Production Co: Taleswapper, K/O Paper Products, Digital Domain, Odd Lot Entertainment, Lions Gate Films, Summit Entertainment, Chartoff Productions
Rating: PG-13 (Some Violence|Sci-Fi Action|Thematic Material)
Genre: Sci-Fi, Adventure, Action
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Nov 1, 2013, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Nov 19, 2015
Box Office (Gross USA): $61.7M
Runtime: 1h 54m
Sound Mix: Datasat, Dolby Digital

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