Ender's Game

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Ender's Game

PG-13,

2013,

2h 14m,

Sci-Fi/

Adventure/

Action

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224 Reviews

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When hostile aliens called the Formics attack Earth, only the legendary heroics of Mazer Rackham (Ben Kingsley) manage to attain a victory. To prepare for the next attack, Col. Hyrum Graff (Harrison Ford) and his cohorts initiate a military program to find the next Mazer. Recruit Ender Wiggin (Asa Butterfield) exhibits an unusual gift for the training, easily mastering all the challenges thrown at him. Mazer Rackham, himself, takes Ender as a protégé to prepare him for the oncoming war.

Critics Consensus

If it isn't quite as thought-provoking as the book, Ender's Game still manages to offer a commendable number of well-acted, solidly written sci-fi thrills.

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Larushka Ivan-Zadeh

metro.co.uk

Sep 6, 2017

4/5

Starship Troopers, Alien, Tron and Star Trek also make up the movie's DNA but the story - a provocative study about the morality of warfare and conflicts of leadership - injects something powerful and new into the familiar 'chosen one' plot trajectory.

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Geoffrey Macnab

Independent (UK)

Feb 21, 2014

2/5

The battle scenes are spectacular but lifeless and hard to engage with. We're watching a cascade of computer-game imagery.

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David Stratton

At the Movies (Australia)

Feb 18, 2014

2.5/5

It was a bit like standing in a room where someone is playing a video game on a screen and you're not actually taking part in it but you have to watch interminably this game being played and it's just really a bit boring.

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Matt Oakes

Silver Screen Riot

Oct 15, 2026

C

Hood can't help himself but to let them fly in your face, like the drilling of drones in the film's finale, never really developing the ever-important 'why?' behind it all.

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JD Duran

InSession Film

Aug 15, 2024

B+

Ender’s Game is a fun, dramatic look that is different and unique for most sci-fi movies. While it follows the basic trope of alien invasion, it quickly turns into a moral dilemma that involves some heavy and complex themes.

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Matt Brunson

Film Frenzy

Sep 8, 2023

2/4

Not having read Card’s novel, I couldn’t say whether it was truly “unfilmable,” but what ends up on the screen is indeed “filmable” in that we’ve seen these narrative threads countless times before in science fiction cinema.

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Ron S

Apr 26, 2019

The best of a long line of great movies

Anakin W

Mar 29, 2019

Tugs at your heartstrings, and makes you think about the future of our planet.

Luke L

Mar 17, 2019

Though I agree that this is an ultra-serious movie, I find it refreshing. I respect its decision to not add much humor. This movie hosted much thought and growth from me. I have found few movies that can accomplish that. What best provoked my growth was; the thought of loving your enemy and what that means, the value of strategy and trust among teammates, and the emotions surrounding war. I was so blown away when it came out and Ender's Game is now my favorite movie. One critique: one less session of "Ender is the leader we've been looking for," from Harrison Ford would've helped balance the movie a little more. I rate 5 stars when I don't see how it could be any better. 4 1/2 stars means it needed a little improvement but it's close.

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Finn W

Feb 26, 2019

i liked it. sci fi. with strategi. would watch again.

Feb 24, 2019

Which there was a sequal

Rey M

Feb 13, 2019

I read the book, so maybe I like it more because of that. But, I thought it was a very strong Sci Fi movie. I definitely recommend watching it.

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Gavin Hood

Director

Harrison Ford

Col. Hyrum Graff

Asa Butterfield

Ender Wiggin

Hailee Steinfeld

Petra Arkanian

Abigail Breslin

Valentine Wiggin

Ben Kingsley

Mazer Rackham

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Synopsis

When hostile aliens called the Formics attack Earth, only the legendary heroics of Mazer Rackham (Ben Kingsley) manage to attain a victory. To prepare for the next attack, Col. Hyrum Graff (Harrison Ford) and his cohorts initiate a military program to find the next Mazer. Recruit Ender Wiggin (Asa Butterfield) exhibits an unusual gift for the training, easily mastering all the challenges thrown at him. Mazer Rackham, himself, takes Ender as a protégé to prepare him for the oncoming war.

Director: Gavin Hood
Producer: Gigi Pritzker, Linda McDonough, Alex Kurtzman, Roberto Orci, Robert Chartoff, Lynn Hendee, Orson Scott Card, Ed Ulbrich
Screenwriter: Gavin Hood
Distributor: Summit Entertainment
Production Co: Taleswapper, K/O Paper Products, Digital Domain, Odd Lot Entertainment, Lions Gate Films, Summit Entertainment, Chartoff Productions
Rating: PG-13 (Some Violence|Sci-Fi Action|Thematic Material)
Genre: Sci-Fi, Adventure, Action
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Nov 1, 2013, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Nov 19, 2015
Box Office (Gross USA): $61.7M
Runtime: 2h 14m
Sound Mix: Datasat, Dolby Digital

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