Zzzzzzzzz.

Rating: 2/10 (11 February 2014)

Only one way to describe this five hour movie: Boring! Okay, it just seemed like five hours. A good substitute for Sominex. In all fairness, sci-fi flicks like this have a following among kids and maybe a lot of them liked it. I thought we hit bottom with After Earth, but Hollywood wasn't done by a long shot. Ender's Game is another kid show with a name adult in the background just to give it the appearance of quality. The man who used to be Harrison Ford either desperately needs any money he can get, or he's just so hungry to keep working that he'll take what he can get. Next I expect him to be guesting on the type of show that features the likes of Tonya Harding and Danny Bonaduce. And Ben Kingsley is right behind him. Hey, at one time their name on a flick meant something. What's this about? Okay, it's another alien invasion flick combined with kids who learn war with video games à la The Last Starfighter (the kid from a trailer court), and yet another of those tried and true attempts where a self-doubting person is drafted to take a bunch of losers and turn them into winners. The special effects were pretty good, but that doesn't make up for lack of a good story and people you care about. Nobody in this film moved me. I couldn't get interested in them or their problems or motives or anything else. It's just a shame that people who have, or used to have box office appeal, allow themselves to be dragged into these messes.