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Ender's Game

2013

Gavin Hood

Asa Butterfield, Harrison Ford, Hailee Steinfeld, Ben Kingsley ...

5.9

34,046

Sci-Fi. War. Action 70 years after a horrific alien war, an unusually gifted child is sent to an advanced military school in space to prepare for a future invasion. Adaptation of the popular novel.

	Media	Author	Review
		Helen O'Hara Empire	"It admirably avoids many of the pitfalls of adapting this book, but seems to have lost some of the life and pace as well. (...) Rating: ★★ (out of five)"
		Matthew Turner View London	"Watchable sci-fi adventure enlivened by some decent special effects and strong performances from Asa Butterfield, Harrison Ford and Viola Davis, though the scripting is a little simplistic in places and the ending feels anti-climactic."
		Peter Debruge Variety	"An impressive, thought-provoking astro-adventure that benefits from the biggest screen available."
		Marc Bernardin The Hollywood Reporter	"If only adapter-director Gavin Hood's movie had been tempered with craft and care and wasn't such a blunt instrument, one that seems designed as a delivery system for CGI derring-do instead of the heartbreaker it should be."
		Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"Gavin Hood's adaptation of Orson Scott Card's bestseller remains pacy and visually pleasing despite an overload of ideas. (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of five)"
		Anthony Lane The New Yorker	"Hard to comprehend and even harder to endure. (...) [Harrison Ford] looks both tired and bored".
		Michael Phillips Chicago Tribune	"A bit of a tweener, neither triumph nor disaster, a war-games fantasy with a use-by date of Nov. 22, when the new 'Hunger Games' movie comes out. (...) Rating: ★★½ (out of four)"

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