Wednesday, June 17, 2015

Movie Review:
Ender's Game

Ender's Game is a 2013 American science fiction action film based on the novel of the same name by Orson Scott Card. Written and directed by Gavin Hood, the film stars Asa Butterfield as Andrew "Ender" Wiggin, an unusually gifted child who is sent to an advanced military academy in outer space to prepare for a future alien invasion. The supporting cast includes Harrison Ford, Hailee Steinfeld, Viola Davis, Abigail Breslin, and Ben Kingsley.

This film was released in Germany on October 24, 2013, followed by a release in the United Kingdom and Ireland one day later. It was released in the United States, Canada, and several other countries on November 1, 2013, and was released in other territories by January 2014.



Plot

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.

Box Office

Ender's Game was the number 1 film in North America during its opening weekend, earning $27,017,351 from 3,407 theaters with an average of $7,930 per theater. The film ultimately grossed $61,737,191 domestically and $63,800,000 internationally, for a worldwide gross of $125,537,191, slightly above its $110 million production budget. Varietymagazine listed Ender's Game as one of "Hollywood's biggest box office bombs of 2013" when it had made $87 million.


Review

Ender's Game is a spectacular film and true to the Orson Scott Card's book of the same name. Asa Butterfield gives a really great performance as Ender, with a moral complexity of a genius boy who is called to save his world despite his uncertainty in what he is being asked to do. For me, it's a really great movie, where the moral of the movie is do not easily give up when you have a problem, there's always a way to solve it.

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