Suffers from a few bad choices

Rating: 5/10 (5 November 2013)

The movie suffers from a few bad choices.
The movie glances over the bully stuff, which is supposed to be the main theme of the story and to make people identify with Ender and root for him.
The main bully is a short little guy who has to pull Ender down to face him. Yeah, that's very intimidating. Their fight is over before it starts.
The secondary bully is a big chubby guy but never actually bully Ender in the movie.
The fight with the aliens is the same, never got personal, so no one cheers at the resolution because we aren't rooting for Ender as much as we should. Whether he wins or loses, he has as much to lose as everyone else, not a tad more.
The movie has no humor.
If they added another 15-20 minutes to flush out the characters, it could have make a huge difference. Instead, most characters (the kids) are just stick figures around Ender.
Overall, the movie lacks of character development but has lot pretty special effects, to the point fighting aliens look pretty.