disappointing movie version of classic book

Rating: Null/10 (8 February 2014)

Ender's game the movie was a great disappointment for me.I have read all of the Ender's Game book series and had been surprised at the news about the writer Orson Scott Card's being against gay marriage. Surely a writer who had focused on the character Ender Wiggins'greatest strength, his empathic nature, would have some empathy himself.The movie disappointed me because it should have been a combination of Ender's Game and Ender's Shadow. Such a combination could have developed two intriguing characters, Ender and Bean. Of course that mean that you would need an excellent screenwriter and director but unfortunately, this wasn't the case. The movie as shown could only focus on Ender and even that was done in a limited fashion. True, it would have been impractical to have Ender and the other kids as young as they were in the book.But key elements were missing from the movie that would have made it a better adaption. The fact that Ender killed 2 kids who was bullying him in the book made it all the more tragic due to his empathic nature. In the movie, it was only hinted that the bully Bonzo was dying. The actor Moise Arias was really miscasted as Bonzo Madrid. It was laughable seeing the taller Ender and the rest of Bonzo's teammates being bullied by this actor.The actor who played Bean was a relative newcomer so once I had heard that he had been casted as Bean, I knew that no elements of Ender's Shadow would be in this movie.In the end, it was another example of Hollywood diluting a classic book of its main strengths based on the underachieving abilities of its producers, directer and screenwriters.