Rotten
Enough people attended Ender's Game last weekend to place it at the top of the box office. But could any of them have known how profoundly unspectacular an experience they were in for?
Wesley Morris, Grantland
Ender's Game
This is not a game.
2013 · 1h 54m · PG-13
Action, Adventure, Science Fiction
Directed by
Gavin Hood
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Ender's Game
Overview
Based on the classic novel by Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game is the story of the Earth's most gifted children training to defend their homeplanet in the space wars of the future.
Director and cast
- Gavin Hood Director
- Asa Butterfield as Ender Wiggin
- Hailee Steinfeld as Petra Arkanian
- Harrison Ford as Colonel Hyrum Graff
- Viola Davis as Major Gwen Anderson
- Ben Kingsley as Mazer Rackham
- Abigail Breslin as Valentine Wiggin
- Aramis Knight as Bean
- Moisés Arias as Bonzo Madrid
- Nonso Anozie as Sergeant Dap
- Suraj Partha as Alai
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
62%
Tomatometer
Fresh
While the picture loses some plot tension by assuring the viewer that Ender is basically an okay kid, it gains by showing the growth of the boy into his destiny as "the One."
Richard Corliss, TIME Magazine
Fresh
Straightforward, a bit literal-minded, very faithful to the book and largely compelling.
Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com
Rotten
If you dislike child actors, you might derive a perverse satisfaction from seeing dozens of them look so unhappy to be onscreen.
Ben Sachs, Chicago Reader
Fresh
There are times when a certain grimness weighs on the movie that you wish for more humor. But overall it's an absorbing and thought-provoking spectacle.
Walter V. Addiego, San Francisco Chronicle
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