shouting: nearly no spoilers. end shouting;

Rating: 1/10 (22 February 2014)

If you have read the book you are not missing much! The production was able to spend a butt ton of money on the effects and try to draw you into a vacuous story.
Book Ender was quite lively and you revel in this victories while feeling his pain and near angst moments. Film Ender and crew just gave these touches of emotion. Naturally the book is near to impossible for Hollywood to produce. Card had some conversations early on (1990s 2000s sh (cannot use i s h because IMDb has painful rod up their rectum)) and it became clear how this would be a problem. I had hoped Card would not sell out but naturally he did.
If scripts were public you could clearly determine where the wrong was made (and maybe there is a nice screenplay out there).
If you love the book so much, write your own screenplay and cast it. Don't even bother with making the film until you have those elements down. You may find how valuable the book is and how horrific the film is just by exploring the impossible.
END NOTE: *Card would not share full length screenplays of Ender's Game (even under any conditions to privatize the transaction) *watched film once *too tried to reread or actually give a review. Think Harry Potter adaptation but this went terribly wrong. *censored in accordance with IMDb's illegal rules. don't censor IMDb. it is not becoming. *each star should represent a New Line (I feel cock blocked)