The Worst Film Ever

Perfect cast and a good story

hyped garbage

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

I just read Ender's Game and Ender's Shadow and watched the movie right after. There was so much missing that it lacked context, emotion, and heart. It was like it was just hitting the highlights, which does not make for an interesting movie. Kind of reminded me of the pace of The Room ala the flower shop scene ("Oh hi doggie"). It's as disappointing as the movie based on the book "The Time Traveler's Wife" - an abomination. I've now read all the books in the Ender series and they all run from good to great. I think the whole series could be done as a cartoon or some other digital method. It does not need to be done with live people. I hope someone does that someday.

I've read the book more times than I can count so I was naturally excited, if not a little apprehensive about the movie. I have tried to like this movie and see it outside the confines of the book, but it's falls so short of what it could be and still makes me mad years later. The special effects were admittedly decent, but the directing and script were filth. Hood talked about wanting to stay true to the novel but he changed really critical elements. Also, I love the cast but they didn't do the film any favours. I feel like Hood cast Academy Award Winners/Nominees in hopes of riding their coat-tails and covering up his abysmal script and lack of vision. The only redeeming qualities is the visual effects.I know everybody always says this, but you're really better off reading the book - or better yet, listening to it. As for me, I'm going to try my best to forget this trash pile even exists.

'Ender's Game (2013)' doesn't explain or even really explore anything, displaying not so much ambiguity but rather a total lack of the regard or ability to convey or establish any of its sub-surface and world-building plot elements, including its few but genuine deep ideas surrounding the morality of war, violence and the concept of 'winning' at such endeavours, which welcomely pop up here and there but are unfortunately shrouded in a mire of murky, dour self-seriousness, a schlocky and exposition-filled screenplay and boringly bad dialogue. That's the main problem with the piece, though, that it's just unjustly and uncompromisingly boring from beginning to end. The fact that it never gets out of the gate or backtracks on its one good, gut-wrenching moment become minor annoyances when you simply cannot care about anything happening on screen, since there's no engagement to come from the cardboard characters or clichéd plot and certainly not from the well-rendered but usually stakes-less action sequences. It's an extremely poor effort more adept at putting you to sleep than anything else, and it isn't even all that great at that. 3/10

Extremely badBad acting and childish although the Idea of the film is good.