Worth Waiting For

Rating: 9/10 (2 November 2013)

Went to see it yesterday, my son and I, and we both thought it was excellent. Would recommend to see it in IMAX if at all possible; the spaceflight scenes were incredible. To get the full effect, you're going to have to see this one in theaters; I seriously question the ability of even high-end home theater systems to capture the full effect of this movie.
If you've read the book, things are not going to look like you pictured them in your head. Orson Scott Card leaves out a lot of descriptions of the characters and scenes, so as a reader you imagine more yourself. The bad side of this is that when/if it's made into a movie, it's not going to match what you imagined. The battle room, for example, is nothing like what I pictured in my head. But it all still works very, very well.
The biggest thing that makes this so good is that it's pretty much true to the book--and having Card as a producer I'm sure is what kept it that way.