Ender's Game (2013)
Having never read Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game series of books i really didn't know what to expect from the film. Having now watched it i found it all rather agreeable.
The first half comes across like Harry Potter meets Full Metal Jacket on a space station as young Ender (Asa Butterfield) enters military academy to prepare for a future alien invasion via test run simulations overseen by Harrison Ford and Ben Kingsley with the end result being rather a nice twist that i only thought about as it was actually taking place.
The film on the whole is a well acted, solidly scripted piece that is at times as thought provoking as it is thrilling and it looks fantastic to boot.
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