Review of Ender's Game (2013) by Rick R — 15 Jan 2015

Ender's Game (2013).

"Know your enemy!" It's a very old saying to learn how to anticipate your enemy's next move. Know your enemy to destroy them. But, there's another stage to that saying. By knowing your enemy you begin to understand, and even empathize with your enemy. To understand them, you can even learn to love them.

I went into Ender's Game expecting a cool alien shoot-em-up movie with lots of special effects; and there was a lot of that, but there was a lot more to this movie than I anticipated. It was also very thought-provoking too.

Earth had been terribly attacked by these ant-like aliens, known as the Formics. Somehow we had defeated the attack on Earth. Efforts have been made to take the battle back to the Formics home planet, and in the coming years efforts were made to develop and train young people to fight the Formics.

Ender Wiggin (Asa Butterfield) is a quiet, but brilliant boy. Colonel Graff (Harrison Ford) see a promising leader and statistician. Unlike his brother, who is too violent and his sister who is too compassionate, Ender is the right level of both to understand and fight this enemy. But, does Ender really have what it takes to annihilate this Formic threat?