Good movie, bad adaptation

Rating: 5/10 (3 November 2013)

Overall, if you hadn't read the book, Ender's Game was a good movie. It lacked some character development, but the acting by Butterfield and Ford was pretty good. Now, to the bad part. If you read the book, you won't like the movie. The writers and director changed too many things from the book to the movie for it to be a solid adaptation. Some of the errors made a solid sequel to this movie impossible, as many plot points are missing, or just falsely done. I would've been willing to sit there for three and a half hours if it meant that they could get a solid and book-driven movie. Unfortunately, they didn't. It was almost two hours long, and didn't adapt well at all. There's no reason why they couldn't have gotten more of the plot correct, even in the time allotted. They should have made the movie longer. It was meant to be a longer movie. They didn't however, and it made the movie not nearly as good as it potentially could have been. This is yet another movie Hollywood has destroyed because of lack of attention to detail.