I have not reviewed in a very long time.
After this review, I have 10 maybe 11 more reviews to do.
I probably won't have the memory/time to do them all but I will try.
I suck.
Rating: PG-13
Time: 114 min
Director: Gavin Hood
Stars: Harrison Ford, Asa Butterfield
I suck.
I wasn't telling a lie up there.
I was telling the truth.
Anyway, if you're wondering what the other 10 movies are (not including this one), I will tell it to you now.
1. Blue Jasmine
2. Kick Ass 2
3. The Spectacular Now
4. The Family
5. Don Jon
6. Gravity
7. Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2
8. Captain Phillips
9. Bad Grandpa
10. Free Birds
Yeah, I know I suck.
But anyway, to get back on topic, I loved Ender's Game.
What I mean by that is the book.
During the summer I read the book and to me, I considered it one of the best books I have ever read ever.
I really wanted to see the movie, so during the trailers I wasn't sure if it was going to live up to my expectations.
If you want to find out if it did, read on.
I know everyone's complaining about the author and how's very against gays and that, I find that matter to have nothing to do with the movie.
Who cares really?
Anyway, since it's been such a long time since my last review, I might be a little more amateur. (AKA. Bad)
So enjoy this next review and I hope it fills that sad hole in your heart where old ones used to be.
So the plot is, is that Earth 50 years ago we went to war with aliens.
We want to finish off the aliens to secure the Earths safety forever and ever.
To do that we train kids to fight this war.
One of those kids is Ender.
That is the plot.
So what was good?
I'm a little rusty so let's see how this goes...
First off, I loved the book (as I mentioned before) and to me, this movie lived up to it.
The movie was well acted.
Harrison Ford, Viola Davis, Asa Butterfield and pretty much everyone else!
They all did amazing jobs and to me, they added to the experience and fun of the movie.
Also the special effects in this movie is great.
It looks so real and so realistic!
I saw Terminator the other day and compared, this movie was incredible!
Even if I didn't compare the two, the effects would still be incredible.
The story was much better than most action/sci-fi movies.
It had a lot more meaning and heart and wasn't just a stupid senseless one of the Hero vs Villain.
Also the ending of this movie was executed perfectly!
When I read the book, the ending was one of the parts I was most worried of how it would be done, and the movie did it so well!
I think that it may have even done it better than the book.
IT WAS SO COOL!
Anyway, what wasn't so, cool...
First off, I was disappointed by some parts of the movie.
The book was placed over many years and it had a lot of things going on.
It would be kind of hard to put it all into only 2 hours.
So of course they're going to make some scenes shorter, but one scene they made seem too short.
When Ender is in Battle School, it takes place for many years in the book.
Actually, the majority of the book is in that school.
So when the movie makes it 30 minutes long, and makes it seem like the whole process was done in a single day, that made me mad and disappointed.
If only movies could be as long as it needed to be.
But then again, no one would see a 10 hour movie.
So all in all, this movie lived up to the expectation of it's book and impressed me wildly.
Score=8.5
