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Ender's Game

This is not a game.

2013 • 114 min • Science Fiction · Action · Adventure

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Synopsis

Based on the classic novel by Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game is the story of the Earth's most gifted children training to defend their homeplanet in the space wars of the future.

Our family guide

Best from age 12

Movie Knight Score

6353 reviews

67 Reviewers · 3 · 53%
66 Audience · 6350 · 47%

Ender Wiggin, a brilliant young strategist, is recruited to train at a military academy in space. He faces intense pressure and moral dilemmas as he prepares to lead humanity against an alien threat, learning that leadership comes at a significant cost.

Violence & peril: 6/10
Language: 2/10
Drinking, drugs & smoking: 1/10
Romance & sensuality: 1/10
Scary moments: 5/10

Heads up

Intense battle simulations
Child characters in peril
Some emotional manipulation of command decisions with serious consequences

What it models well

The importance of empathy
Leadership and responsibility
Strategic thinking and problem-solving

Talk about it after

The ethics of war and sacrifice
Bullying and fitting in
What it means to be a hero

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Top billed cast

Director: Gavin Hood • Crew: Gavin Hood

Trailers & clips

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ENDER'S GAME -- Trailer

Reviewer notes

Recommended
**Score: 6/10 - A Technically Proficient, Emotionally Hollow Adaptation** There are certain books that lodge themselves in your psyche so deeply that decades later, scenes, lines, and questions still surface unbidden. Orson Scott Card's *Ender's Game* is one such novel.…
misubisu, TMDB Community

RecommendedTrusted family reviewers
I doubt "Ender Wiggin" (Asa Butterfield) would be anyone's idea of a soldier but "Col. Graff" (Harrison Ford) reckons his reaction to some bullies might suggest he has more mettle than his weedy physique indicates.…
CinemaSerf, TMDB Community

Not recommendedTrusted family reviewers
Some kind of space Harry Potter in a dull story about doing a genocide US style as if it would be a video game. Boring and with the stupid "we are not so bad" ending to make everybody happy. Still wondering what Harrision Ford and Ben Kingsley are doing in this movie ...
Andres Gomez, TMDB Community