Ender's Game

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Name: Ender's Game

Release Date (in Singapore): 7 November 2013
Date Watched: 24 November 2013


Summary:
The Earth was ravaged by the Formics, an alien race seemingly determined to destroy humanity. Seventy years later, the people of Earth remain banded together to prevent their own annihilation from this technologically superior alien species. Ender Wiggin, a quiet but brilliant boy, may become the savior of the human race. He is separated from his beloved sister and his terrifying brother and brought to battle school in orbit around earth. He will be tested and honed into an empathetic killer who begins to despise what he does as he learns to fight in hopes of saving Earth and his family.

Summary by: CrystalSinger45, Jesse Daniels, strouda56
Summary from: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1731141/plotsummary


Personal Ratings: 3
I find this show a lot better than Hunger Games 1. But I prefer the way Hunger Games planned out their time allocations for each part of the movie. I find that this movie does not seem to have a proper climax. 

I kinda liked the movie, it was unique in the normal way. in the sense that their judgments from the higher ups are kind of different from what I'm used to be facing. Honestly, there are times in the movie where I could have never thought that the main character would be able to get out of the bad situation. I liked how the main character was worried over hurting people. Instead of other people being all judgmental about him, they took his side, which was something different from most books.  

I liked how they slowly showed the progress he had while trying to win people over to his side. But I feel that there was not enough time and emphasis on the actual strategic scenes. They also should have showed more obvious signs of the aliens trying to communicate with Ender throughout the movie. I just felt that the end of the movie came really soon, where else some parts of the movie just seem to be a little to draggy. I think for the last part, after Ender was told that he actually won the war and that was not a test, should have been a little longer, especially when portraying his emotions (before he decided to talk to the aliens).


Recommended for:
Gender: Female & Male
Age: 13 and above
Ratings: PG