Some books shouldn't be attempted in a single film

Rating: 5/10 (24 October 2018)

I see Ender's Game as a book that has two quite different films in it. The first part of the book is basically a sports story about coming of age and the battle room. The second part is a story about command training and/or war. This film guts the most interesting and dramatic parts of both of those stories by trying to tell some abbreviated tale -- resulting in a movie that really doesn't interest me at just about any level (regardless of how much I like the books), even though the production quality was quite good.