For the uninitiated, Ender's Game is the story of 12-year-old Ender Wiggin (Hugo's Asa Butterfield), a shy loner with a beautiful mind. His present, if it could be called that, contemplating what happens within the last third of the motion picture, is definitely that he's a bit of savant with regards to strategy and analyzing thorny no-win circumstances. He'd provide Captain Kirk a serious run at Superstar Trek's Kobayashi Maru scenario. That is a particularly valuable skill set in the wake of a devastating attack on Earth years previously by an alien insect competition named the Formics. You can find reports these intergalactic praying mantises are usually going to launch a second assault and the military powers that be are scouring our planet, looking for the best and the brightest to outwit these blood-thirsty beasties.

Ender's Game is an action movie parable, a bleak, thoughtful, confined adventure story built on an unsettling premise: the presence of a futuristic variant of child soldiers-cum-video clip gamers recruited to save mankind.

Mr. Hood, whose script winnows the novel into two time of measures and a fair quantity of talk mostly, does better after the tale shifts to place. (Enders house, where crammed bookshelves collection one wall structure and his mommy bustles by yourself in the kitchen like a 1950s housewife, has a pointless antediluvian movie streaming high quality.) On the list of dividends are a barking sergeant, Dap (Nonso Anozie), and a giant geodesic-dome-like room where trainees practice in zero gravity. Its pleasing to watch these very small untethered bodies float like cosmic motes also to follow Ender into an appealingly complete animated pc game, where he tumbles down a rabbit hole and discovers a mystery which will presumably simply be completely solved in the sequels. His tribulations tend not over.

While the technology and special effects are great, the story will make you think. The moral and ethical dilemmas are timeless (although some might say stereotypical). Does the end the methods justify? Is the sacrifice of the one for the greater good of the many ethically correct? Do good men need to do wicked things, so that you can safeguard the collective from evil, or at least perceived evil? "Ender's Game" is thrilling and enjoyable. It also reasons reflection on ideals and morals. It calls into question who and what are we as humans.