Great film until the last fifteen minutes

Rating: 4/10 (25 October 2013)

Ender's game is the story of a child genius forced to become the hero the earth needs due to attacks by "buggers" an alien ant-life form that nearly destroyed us. The paradox is we need a thinking reasoning empathetic psychopath, hard to find, so one needs to be created or tricked.
It'sdifficult in the film to ascertain why Ender is the one being thought of as the saviour compared to other side characters in the film apart from the fact that he had shown aggressive tendencies at a young age or will argue with a senior officer.The film mostly follows the book to the crescendo but then jars discordantly and illogically from the book and reality, Ender has just destroyed a threat (unwittingly) that has killed hundreds of millions of humans but we are led to believe that the Generals watching this final battle against insurmountable odds are more concerned that he has exterminated an alien race rather than him saving humanity from their threat? Ridiculous. They would be on their knees,crying, grabbing his feet, puking in relief etc. Same again all the kids battling with him suddenly knowing that they have saved humanity from this threat. In the book Ender is the only person that feels this way, in the film we'd rather have not destroyed them and Ender has gone too far. So add one some superficial I can also meet the last of the Buggers and fly away forever garbage and you have the worst of all compromises.
Pete