Mild Disappointment Due to Mid Portion

Rating: 5/10 (1 December 2013)

(spoilers)Directed by Gavin Hood from an adapted novel written by Orson Scott Card,"Enders Game" started out fairly well and ended even better, but throughout much of the movie runtime is a snoozer. Scene-after-scene of training followed by gruff, slow, aging Ford yacking and sympathetic Davis wore thin. The training seemed to be the focus of the movie and becomes feeble and clichÃ© when measured against the aliens themselves and interaction with them which deserved much more coverage. Too much is made of Ender being genius and lethal - much too repetitive. And of course the class bully and training bully are both thrown in. The insect race while not terribly original are well conceived and deserved better. This movie may be adapted from a novel, and I don't know how much it leverages from it, but it needed rework. Harrsion Ford ought to retire too, while the child actors were average, to be expected. 5/10