Reviews for this film from our members:
- [New – 5/15/14] | Dragan Antulov @ Draxblog VI [Croatian]
- Marina Antunes @ Quiet Earth
- Rick Aragon @ Rick’s Cafe Texan
- José Arce @ LaButaca.net [Spanish]
- Excerpt: Una adaptación del clásico demasiado similar a un piloto de serial televisivo
- Edwin Arnaudin @ Ashvegas
- Excerpt: The first film of Orson Scott Card’s revered novel is pleasing to the eye, but marred by poor writing and robotic performances.
- Tim Brayton @ Antagony & Ecstasy
- Excerpt: As far as slick entertainment goes, this one has enough of a brain to at least vocalise ideas about right and wrong.
- Kevin Carr @ 7M Pictures
- Excerpt: Beyond the sci-fi spectacle, “Ender’s Game” delivers a strong story that works for teens and the younger generation while dealing with heavier issues such as the nature of war, regret, guilt, sacrifice and suffering.
- Tony Dayoub @ Cinema Viewfinder
- Excerpt: The disquieting idea of child soldiers manipulated by patriotic allegiance to a one-state global government is made mostly attractive, with few qualms raised here and there.
- Mark Dujsik @ Mark Reviews Movies
- Excerpt: [T]he movie’s ultimate lesson … feels like a false afterthought.
- Susan Granger @ www.susangranger.com
- Excerpt: What makes this different from most sci-fi is the provocative question of defensive genocide, along with preemptive strikes, child soldiers and drone warfare.
- Vadym Grygoriev @ kinoblog.com [Ukrainian]
- Mark Hobin @ Fast Film Reviews
- Excerpt: Ender’s Game looks good but it fails at a basic level, to be interesting. Uninvolving characters and a tedious story do not an entertaining film make.
- Travis Hopson @ Punch Drunk Critics
- MaryAnn Johanson @ FlickFilosopher.com
- Excerpt: My soul was never stirred. My spirit did not soar. My intellect did twitch a bit in ways that made my heart ache disagreeably, however.
- Daniel Kelly @ Danland
- Excerpt: I suspect distributors Summit Entertainment have the next “After Earth” on their hands, as opposed to the “Twilight” replacement they’ve been struggling to unearth for the last 12-months.
- Jeremy Kibler @ The Artful Critic
- Excerpt: Smart, good-looking and dramatically involving…
- Benjamin Kramer @ The Voracious Filmgoer
- Brent McKnight @ Giant Freakin’ Robot
- Excerpt: Ender’s Game delivers great promise beneath a lingering shadow.
- Ryan McNeil @ The Matinee
- Excerpt: Thirty years ago, a film like this would have rocked its audience…unfortuantely a lot has happened since Reagan left office.
- Frank Ochieng @ SFcrowsnest
- Excerpt: Hood does a decent job at posing the outrageousness of sacrifice at the hands of young minds caught up in the quandary of self-destruction for the purpose of self-preservation. The provocative sentiment in ‘Ender’s Games’ is challenging and quite refreshing.
- Jason Pirodsky @ Expats.cz
- Excerpt: This is a condensed, abbreviated version of the novel – entire subplots (including a major one featuring Ender’s siblings) have been excised, and the timescale has been greatly shortened – that may not please diehard fans, but the core themes have been retained. We finally have an adaptation of Ender’s Game, and it’s a surprisingly faithful one, to boot.
- Nuno Reis @ SciFiWorld Portugal [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Tem alguns momentos de artificialidade que mereciam melhor tratamento – em especial no final – mas é, no geral, um produto muito satisfatório. E com a variedade e quantidade de combates que são apresentados, foi uma façanha não se tornar entediante.
- Jerry Roberts @ Armchair Cinema
- Excerpt: It’s a video game that claims that it’s NOT a video game. I beg to differ.
- Diego Salgado @ Cine para Leer [Spanish]
- Amir Siregar @ Amir at the Movies [Indonesian]
- Josh Spiegel @ Sound on Sight
- Excerpt: Ender’s Game has sequences with genuine thrills, and a propulsive energy that’s missing in some other young-adult adaptations of late.
- Frank Swietek @ One Guys Opinion
- Excerpt: Handsomely mounted but silly and tedious…a striking-looking film that never achieves the epic quality the makers are evidently straining for.
- Phil Villarreal @ COED.com
- Excerpt: Very much porn for video game addicts.
- Amber Wilkinson @ Eye For Film
- Excerpt: Ender’s Game is a cut above a lot of sci-fi action films for teenagers, confronting them not just with special effects, but with a decent debate concerning the morality and politics of war.
