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Gavin Hood’s adaptation of Orson Scott Cards-known novel series Ender’s Game exhibit little new and ends up being pretty forgettable family entertainment. The fact that it looks good, is no longer a sufficient criterion in current power extravagances.

I read an Associated Ender’s Game history of sci-fi anthology Far Horizons, but never Cards original novel. So I went into the movie with the usual genre expectations and perhaps a little skepticism about the material in terms of the author’s controversial stances (he is a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints and outspoken opponent of gay marriage). I was curious if any of this would become entangled in the history theme, shaped by Disney reactionary preferences.

Well, to a certain extent. The story of a young boy who taught and formed into a military leader in the Earth against those allegedly evil premix is ??a kind of parable Jesus as seen through the eyes of the Old Testament. There are also elements of redemption and genocide. Beyond that, however, there is nothing that points specifically to the Cards view on gay marriage. Following the premiere took place there a little discussion about the topic in industry magazine Entertainment Weekly with statements by Card himself, producer Robert Orci and co-star Harrison Ford .

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I shall not go into that here. Those interested can google it if they want. Ultimately, the film is realized as a straightforward narrative aimed at a young audience. Yes, in many ways it’s designed as a sort of “Harry Potter in Space.” The only problem is that it fails to surpass the cliches and rely on annoying predictable solutions, it is very “straight forward” without very many shades and layers, a criterion that is important even in family and youth films.

In a future where children are trained to be soldiers in the imminent war against the insect-like premix, we follow young Andrew “Ender” Wiggin (Asa Butterfield) from boot camp for officers school commander school during the steady mentor hand to Colonel Graff ( Harrison Ford ). It might be supposed Enders unique talent and strategic intelligence to be mirrored in a mature temperament, but unfortunately irritates you more in the Butterfields precocious, arrogant appearance. Yes, the majority of children and young people in the film. If the realities of war has robbed them of their innocence and childhood, produced the surprisingly straightforward and simplistic.

Most disappointing, however actiontablåene. Not because the effects are bad in any way, but because they offer little more than childish spektakkel. OK, so they may be included to illustrate Enders development and strength, but there is very little depth the issues and challenges put forward. They jump and bounce weightlessly through various war games, but you never get the feeling that something is at stake, or that there is something more than the ‘underdog’ who eventually run out winners of the game.

Great pictures and effects can not deliver Ender’s Game

Man waiting patiently on a dispute or extra layers to pop out from behind the predictability, but it happens unfortunately never. When Ben Kingsley takes the stage as a Maori warrior and war hero at the end of the film, rising aspirations, but he can never bring to the role more than a quick mentoring gimmick before the movie is over. Also he disappears into the black hole.

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very end of the movie event of a dispute which at least has the potential to a taste of gravitas, a theme that some genera of Starship Troopers (1997). But then it’s too late. There has not been sufficient structure to climax, no small drip of complexity, nothing to indicate that we now suddenly going to buy the serious depth of the problem put forward.

Actually, this leaching strange considering all character scenarios drawn up: Wiggin family, love interests, authority figures, internal and external antagonists. It’s as if you’ve copied the surface dynamics of Harry Potter without bringing together the major lines and mythological perspective. Then it becomes the forgettable, no matter how old you are. And then it does not the effects and action kinetics are impeccable in themselves.

The good news is that the film ends on a rate that could provide a possible sequel more yarn to spin on. But when it requires the Disney earn what they need on the first film, and from what I know it does so reasonably well internationally. I’m skeptical, but choose to keep the door open. We remember how the Harry Potter first got the real meat on the bone with the third film in the saga.

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