JamesG
11-01-2013, 08:04 PM
Movie Reviews: Ender's Game
Ender's Game has received a series of mediocre reviews from critics.
The film, based on Scott Orson's book of the same name, is set in the future after an alien-human war. Ender Wiggin is a talented young boy studying at a military space academy where the students prepare for the next alien invasion of Earth.
The film has been under scrutiny by the press owing to the author, Scott Orson's, homophobic attitudes. A petition was created earlier this year in the hopes of removing Orson's active involvement in the production. Some critics have alluded to this, but the majority have chosen to focus on the film itself.
Peter Howell of the Toronto Star stated:
"It doesn't take much to buy into the premise, especially once the not-bad CGI revs up and Ender and his pint-sized pals start their tiny engines."
The New York Time's critic Manohla Dargis, was unimpressed with the undertones of self-righteousness evident in much of Orson's work which filtered through to the film.
She wrote, "Childhood can be tough in movies, but rarely do screen children suffer for our sins as they do here."
The film received a middling review from The Guardian in which Peter Bradshaw wrote:
"The movie's apocalyptic finale indicates that it's bitten off considerably more than it can chew in terms of ideas, but it looks good, and the story rattles along."
Joe Morgenstern of The Wall Street Journal felt:
"Not only does Ender's Game have many scenes in zero gravity, but this zero-sum fiasco has zero drama, zero suspense, zero humor, zero charm and zero appeal."
-IMDb News
Ender's Game has received a series of mediocre reviews from critics.
The film, based on Scott Orson's book of the same name, is set in the future after an alien-human war. Ender Wiggin is a talented young boy studying at a military space academy where the students prepare for the next alien invasion of Earth.
The film has been under scrutiny by the press owing to the author, Scott Orson's, homophobic attitudes. A petition was created earlier this year in the hopes of removing Orson's active involvement in the production. Some critics have alluded to this, but the majority have chosen to focus on the film itself.
Peter Howell of the Toronto Star stated:
"It doesn't take much to buy into the premise, especially once the not-bad CGI revs up and Ender and his pint-sized pals start their tiny engines."
The New York Time's critic Manohla Dargis, was unimpressed with the undertones of self-righteousness evident in much of Orson's work which filtered through to the film.
She wrote, "Childhood can be tough in movies, but rarely do screen children suffer for our sins as they do here."
The film received a middling review from The Guardian in which Peter Bradshaw wrote:
"The movie's apocalyptic finale indicates that it's bitten off considerably more than it can chew in terms of ideas, but it looks good, and the story rattles along."
Joe Morgenstern of The Wall Street Journal felt:
"Not only does Ender's Game have many scenes in zero gravity, but this zero-sum fiasco has zero drama, zero suspense, zero humor, zero charm and zero appeal."
-IMDb News