Rating: 3 of 6

Orson Scott Card is an American writer who recently attracted controversy because of his views on same-sex marriage. Considerably less well appreciated is he for his sci fi literature, primarily books about Ender, a complex tale involving half a dozen editions plus a couple of side stories. This is a condensed adaptation of opening the novel “Ender’s Game”.

In the near future, have a destructive bönsyrselik utomjordsras, formics, attacked the earth and left a trail of destruction. A new world order imposed, and in order to crush the enemy train gifted children up, complete with drill sergeants and marching songs a la “Full Metal Jacket” settled in “2001″ environment. The goal is that these “planet’s Hope” will put an end to all future threats.

particular, Andrew “Ender” Wiggins (Asa Butterfield from “Hugo Cabret”) is the military’s eyes on him. After refined tests assumed he was an elite squad of young fighters where he goes from strength to strength. The story depicts in careful detail his path to ambient respect: it basically kindly Ender pulls neither violence against aggressive peers or to question their command. The tactic be well received. Ender becomes Earth’s final hope.

Gavin Hood, South African director of Oscar-winner “Tsotsi”, may have the finesse of the visuals – but no one who has just seen “Gravity” is likely to be particularly overwhelmed. Parallels is rather to Will Smith film “After Earth” with its heavy-footed maturation narrative, spiced with a dose kvasireligion (maybe also should experiment a bit with Smith’s Scientology and Cards Mormon backgrounds?). Endless video games like laser gun battles will eventually become quite repetitive.

Hailie Steinfeld (from the Coen Brothers ‘True Grit’) stands for the sympathetic element, Ben Kingsley for the Anglo-Saxon pompous and Harrison Ford for a little tired superstar effort. Him, we have seen a much better science fiction at one time.