Road Filled With Dread

Rating: 2/10 (8 December 2014)

This review contains spoilers.
The glorious novels meet their ultimate doom in the insight of the film makers of the movie: Ender's Game. As nails screeching on a chalkboard, you will be overall annoyed with how this film toys with what the novels tell, though taints the final image of the fantasy adventure.
Many critical scenes were not accounted for, and some were done plain wrong. e/ Graff shows up at Wiggin's house to take Valentine to see Ender at the lake. He should have been at her school, waiting outside
Other horrible mistakes include the Battle School layout, dialog, character traits, character ages and characters.
Bean, the child who annoyed me greatly, is introduced wrong. He was not on the first launch to Battle School, but, years later. He meets Ender, finally, when joining Dragon Army.
Benard is the bully-turned-friend-turned-bully. He is not amongst Ender's closest pals (on how they constructed Ender's jeesh for Command School) and should have never been at Command School with Ender.
Battle School was an utter disaster. Army rooms were far too small. They didn't even attempt to give it the long, narrow and stretching upwards look the novels described.
The school also had plenty of battle rooms, not just one gigantic one (although, seeing it in action of army against army did feel like the novels, except the "stars" were not cubes).
There was no occupying "Commander's Mess" in the Mess Hall, which seemed really absurd.
Eros, or which is known as, "Command School" was bad, as well. The quarters were too small, Ender had space to do exercises in them. Where the virtual ship game training holo's were, was very inaccurate. For one, Ender was isolated from his jeesh in Command School. All of his jeesh had separate rooms for their holo's.
I may also point out, that, if Ender were as smart as they said he was, he'd turn around when they played the final battle and see Mazer Rackham starring down upon him and then trying to say he beat him. Hah.
The film was a let down to hard core fans of the Ender Series. You can tell, obviously, that the film makers sandwiched the movie together to fit it all in, and to leave numerous scenes out, and all the accurateness.
There is too much to rant about what the film makers messed up on and cut out. One major piece of evidence is the age of the actors. The other, is having to hear some kid going through puberty through the whole movie. Seriously, he sounds like he is doing animal calls when he yells.
Through all this rant, and the movie, I only personally liked one thing about the film: The picture of it.

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