Enders Game: Game Over

"In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him." - Orson Scott Card

Enders Game is a fantastic film in which you will realize the deep connection that an opponent has with his enemy and what it takes to defeat them. Ender Wiggin (Asa Butterfield) is an incredibly brilliant, yet very young recruit in the Military's program for gifted children. The movie starts out with Ender as a young recruit who hasn't made it out of basic training and observation. You instantly understand his eagerness and need to do well and please not only his commanding officers, but his family. Ender is the youngest in his family and since his two older siblings have already been expelled from the program, both for completely different reasons, he feels pressure to do well and learn from their  mistakes. His big brother Peter Wiggin (Jimmy Pinchack) opted out due to his preference for violence and his older sister, Valentine, (Abigail Breslin) failed Battle School, the next step in training, due to her compassion. 

Colonel Hyram Graff (Harrison Ford) and Major Gwen Anderson (Viola Davis) spend the majority of the movie preparing young Ender and his team of misfits to face the impending alien invasion that they fear will be even worse than an attack fifty years prior that no one saw coming and that killed millions. The importance of the recruitment program is immediately clear, though a bit hard to understand. The reason for such a program is to find unique and gifted children to do a job that adults are incapable of completing correctly. Upon his advancement in to Battle School, he is immediately targeted as the smartest and most talented of the new recruits and therefore makes him a threat. Though there are many who would love to see Ender dead, there are also those who would give their lives for him, and those friends like Bean (Aramis Knight) and Petra (Hailee Steinfeld) would eventually play a huge role in his career and, at a later point in the story, keep him alive and sane. 

This movie will keep you wanting to know more from the moment it starts till the second it ends. This film features a spectacular line up of award winning actors/actresses such as Harrison Ford, Viola Davis, Ben Kingsley, Moises Arias, Hailee Steinfeld, and Asa Butterfield. Director Gavin Hood did a wonderful job portraying the characters and with such a stellar cast, there isn't much you can't do. I absolutely give this movie $$$$$ out of $$$$$. "Remember, the enemy's gate is down." - Orson Scott Card

-Content Alert-

Throughout the film there is slight language, but nothing too bad. The MPAA rating for Enders game is PG-13 for syfy violence, slight language, along with some thematic elements.

~Shaniqua VI~