Great novel visualization

Rating: 9/10 (24 November 2013)

It's not easy to "bring to life" something you red in a novel but apparently this movie succeeds. For someone who is not familiar with "life and deeds" of Ender Wiggin, this movie would not make much sense. Still, it's a beautifully pictured (important) part of the Ender "saga", that has excellent prequels and sequels (especially "Speaker for the dead"), written by a master.
So, my suggestion would be: read the novel (the whole series, as a matter of fact) on Ender and then watch this movie. Then and only then it shall be excellent to you as it was for me. Otherwise, it will just be a nice action SF, which would be pointless. Why? There are rarely movies that can picture all the layers of messages and thoughts from a story. There have been several more or worse successful attempts. This one tries to compress something that should last hours into a 100+ minute movie, extracting only the crucial point of the story. Don't miss it but, once again, read the book first.