Mike's Review: I never read the book(s) and didn't even know it was based on a book until after seeing the movie. Overall it was an interesting story, it kept my interest for the two hours and I generally liked it up until the last 10 minutes when all was reveled and maybe the aliens were just trying to communicate when they supposedly killed millions upon millions of people when they first came to earth 50 years prior to Ender's battle. The ending really left a sour note for me. I like my super battle "humans versus creatures" type of movies more like Starship Troopers (1997)...clear cut and to the point...kill all the bugs. And for the chosen one to be more like Neo in the The Matrix (1999) or The Last Starfighter.(1984). If it wasn't for the wishy-washey ending this movie would have gotten a much higher rating from me.
Best Scene: The final Zero G fight scene was cool.
Mike's Rating: In between full price and matinee price ticket..
Bean's Review: The mission is to destroy a supposedly deadly alien race
before it takes over the world. This story was interesting, not for its
constant simulated battle scenes and endless war games, which became quite
boring, but for the psychological complexity of the characters. Ender
Wiggens, played well by Asa Butterfield, is the teenage prodigy that will save
earth from the aliens. Harrison Ford’s character of Colonel Hyrum Graff
of the International Military is Ender’s mentor.
As the story delves into the psyche of Ender and Graff, you begin to question who is the real enemy? Colonel Graff and the military or the alien race? The interplay between Ender and the game he plays which reveals his confusion and his torn loyalty was unique. It also gives a hint of the ending.
Best Scene: when
the alien reveals itself to Ender
Bean's Rating: DVD – not much interest in seeing it again
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