Such a disappointment

Rating: 5/10 (14 January 2015)

I went into this film with high hopes. I have read most of the books in the Ender series and found them fascinating with numerous sub-plots taking place and really rich and well developed characters. Unfortunately in this film you get none of that. I understand that you can't always include everything that is in a book in a film due to time constraints but it basically misses out everything that was important in the story. You find yourself watching it and thinking again and again "how could they miss that bit out". It's basically a few action sequences pegged together. I think it either needed to be a longer film or maybe made into two films. I can't imagine Orson Scott Card would have been happy with what was turned out. I suppose if I had seen the film without reading the book that I might have a different opinion, but as it stands I got to the end and felt massively deflated. The anticipation of watching the film far exceeded the actual film itself!