![]() ![]() With its young main characters probably attracting the same teen crowds that supported The Hunger Games, Ender’s Game will have to compete with the still-potent Gravity as well as two major upcoming fantasy entries: Thor: The Dark World and The Hunger Games: Catching Fire. Despite the popularity of Card’s book, which started as a short story in the late 1970s before being published as a novel in the mid-‘80s, this film doesn’t feature a lot of box office firepower, although Ford might be able to draw in older viewers. Opening in the UK on October 25 before expanding to the US on November 1, Ender’s Game is something of a commercial gamble. The movie walks a delicate line between celebrating violence and condemning it, and that tension is embodied in the tense relationship between young Ender and the battle-tested Graff. Ender’s Game’s moral complexity may come across as muddled, but rising star Asa Butterfield and rejuvenated veteran Harrison Ford give this potentially escapist fable significant heft. ![]() ![]() Those bolder ambitions aren’t always realised, but it’s a tribute to director Gavin Hood that the film (based on Orson Scott Card’s acclaimed novel) aspires to be a thoughtful, awe-inspiring emotional epic as well as an effects-driven spectacle. ![]() A dark sci-fi adventure, Ender’s Game has plenty of ideas beneath its conventional storyline of a talented prodigy who alone can defeat the forces of evil. ![]()
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