Enders Game is an Okay Movie

Rating: 9/10 (11 March 2016)

I thought Ender's game was a really good movie. Out of ten stars I would give it nine stars because the movie had action-packed battle scenes, the camera work was creative, the special effects were realistic, and the props were futuristic.
The only thing I wish the movie had more of were battle scenes like the book. In the book there were several battle scenes, but in the the movie there were only four. No one can say a space battle isn't amazing. The scenes were especially awesome because of all the fighters and the way the ships moved. In the book there were more battles even if the battles weren't against Bonzo, Bonzo is the bully at battle school.
Overall, the movie was pretty amazing for an hour and fifty three minutes. I know it's kind of a serious movie, but they did include one joke. Bean says "your mother cheated that's why you look like a plumber,." Even if there were more jokes and I didn't catch them that's the only funny one. I think it could've used more humor to make it a little less serious after tense parts. I enjoy movies where there's lots of action, but still have comedy.
When I watched the behind the scene video about how they made the movie, I thought it was interesting how they only used the faces in the battle scenes. and how the bodies were edited out and replaced with CGI bodies. In movies, you can normally tell if something has special effects, but in this movie the battle scenes were realistic. I really couldn't tell the bodies were special effects. I also thought it was interesting how sometimes people dressed in green suits would even guide them across the set. My favorite special effects were when it showed battle school from the outside. I thought that was AWESOME!!!
I overall thought the movie was enjoyable. The book was better though because there were more details and battles. The movie even left out a character, Shen! Apart from some of those wishes, I thoroughly enjoyed the movie. They left out a lot of important parts from the book; for example the part where dink tells him the propaganda videos are edited and only show victories and how they're fake, is in the book but not in the movie.
The acting was pretty good except for the part at the end where Ender is laying in bed and then he yells "VALENTINE!!!" During that part I was like "ppppppffffffffffffT! that was stupid." Apart from that, the acting was pretty good. That's why I thought Ender's Game was a excellent movie.