..............Why....just why. This movie is just....uh. Sorry I need to compose myself.
Okay let's get started. I just recently read the book that this movie is based on, and this movie absolutely tore this book apart, then super glued random pieces of paper together and said "here's the script, work with it". The book is a masterpiece and it delves into the psychology of these children who have been put into a high stress situation. The movie however practically jingles keys in front of the faces of all of the people watching only occasionally pausing to say "ooooh we're serious and this is all sad you can tell by the music.....keys, keys look at the pretty keys".
It is so very rushed. There are massive plotpoints that are either glanced over or even just scrapped. Asa Butterfield is not good as Ender either. He is just boring although I'm not sure whether it's his acting or the script. The only person who I thought was actually decent was Harrison Ford as Colonel Graff and that is only because well he's Harrison Ford. If this movie wasn't trying to be the next Harry Potter and instead tried to go for a Quentin Tarantino type movie by making it rated R and showing the gritty violence that was in the book but of course they need more MONEY. I can't believe how much this amazing story was messed up and rushed and I can't even be mad any more I just don't have the energy(it's late as I'm writing this).
I have been a bit very hard on this movie and for very good reason but if you haven't read the book then this movie could be enjoyable but I was VERY disappointed in this movie that I was hoping would be as good as the book. If you aren't lazy i would reccomend reading the book instead of watching the movie. 2/10 ruining a classic story.
Side note: You may have heard the news about Orson Scott Card being a massive disgusting homophobe. I am just as disgusted by this as you hopefully are but don't worry he will not be making any money off of the movie. If you want to read the book I would reccomend either borrowing it from a friend or a library but if you can't you could probably still get the book because the profits from it are only about 0.01% of his painfully large amount of money. Still if you can don't give him any of your hard earned money that he can put towards hate, and bigotry.
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