**6/10 - A Technically Sound but Emotionally Empty Adaptation** Certain books leave a lasting mark, surfacing in your thoughts years later with scenes, lines, and questions that seem to appear on their own. Orson Scott Card's *Ender’s Game* is one of those novels. Published in 1985, it was a significant work of speculative fiction, an insightful, harsh, and morally challenging exploration of childhood, manipulatio…

It’s hard to imagine "Ender Wiggin," played by Asa Butterfield, as anyone’s concept of a military figure, but “Col. Graff,” portrayed by Harrison Ford, believes that his response to some tormentors might reveal more strength than his appearance suggests. His time at the training facility follows a predictable pattern—lots of physically imposing bullies making things rough for him—but "Graff" isn't trying to ease his …

It feels like a space-themed Harry Potter, but trapped inside a lifeless narrative centered on mass violence presented with the detached feel of a video game. The film is tedious, capped off by a predictable and saccharine resolution intended to portray everyone as sympathetic. I'm left questioning what Harrison Ford and Ben Kingsley were drawn to this project for.