With a budget of $110 Million, Ender’s Game is very entertaining in good ways and bad ways. Though there are three highly regarded actors acting in this film (Ford, Kingsley, and Davis), the rest of the acting is quite daunting. Despite the acting, the film’s story is incredibly diverting. The film is peppered by CGI and Special Effects, but not to the point where it is overwhelming (except for the ending scenes).

   (Spoilers) The film is based off a novel, written by a highly regarded science fiction writer, Orson Scott Card. The story takes place in a futuristic Universe, where the Earthlings are caught in an uproar of alien terrorism. A group of military men and women of Earth combat these aliens in the Atmosphere of the Universe in order to protect their home. Ender (Butterfield) is a young boy that is enrolled in a military school. He has an outstanding intellect in the books and the streets. Colonel Graff (Ford), a very impossible man, finds Ender to be the chosen one to fight off the aliens in the future. Gruff and a woman, Major Anderson (Davis) examine Ender’s thoughts and what he sees and hears by an instrument drilled into Ender’s head. Ender is caught in a violent confrontation with a bully and his friends after he is believed to have cheated in a game with the bully. He brutally beats the bully and is setup to be expelled from his school in Space back to his home in America. The expulsion was only a test for Ender’s reaction back home afterwards and he is sent back to a military school at the commands of the Colonel. The film’s story then begins to take its toll and Ender exceeds frequently besides a few mishaps here and there. The end is ravaging because of the overdone computer generation; however, the end is very important to the film because it leads into the very visible sense of a sequel. I will not spoil anymore, besides the build up and synopsis of the very beginning.

   Ender’s Game is a decent film. I was very motivated to see this picture because I read the book and the preview looked very electrifying. Without a doubt, films never accomplish an entire book because it is impossible to do so, but Ender’s Game stayed true to the novel and was entertaining in most aspects. The acting and the characters are what kill the film from exceeding. Despite those calamities, it’s a good movie to watch to get away from the world and I would pay to see the sequel.