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Created Nov 27, 2013 07:58AM PST • Edited Nov 28, 2013 05:35AM PST

1. Quality

2. Summary

   Very Good 3.5

   Ender follows a successful sci-fi formula: get tough and get the bugs. Space bugs, that is. So folks who just like the shoot-em-up basics will be quite pleased with technological marvels and bug blasting. But what if you want something more heady? This is where Ender differentiates just a little. If you read the book, you might be a little underwhelmed – but if you are new to the Orson Scott-Card series, you’ll be left pondering the morality of forced service, manipulating the young, and the annihilation of an alien species. This is a series, but I’m wondering if Gavin Hood can really step up to be able to deliver Orson’s complex messages.

4. Acting

   Good 3.0

   Asa Butterfield was actually a perfect pic for Ender. Tough and no-nonsense, yet vulnerable when it gets down to it.

   Harrison Ford is, of course, an icon in the sci-fi scene

   I liked Ben Kindgley in a small role as a bug blasting hero

5. Male Stars Good 3.0

6. Female Stars Good 3.0

7. Female Costars Good 3.0

8. Male Costars Good 3.0

10. Film

    Very Good 3.5

11. Direction Very Good 3.5

12. Play Very Good 3.5

13. Music Very Good 3.5

14. Visuals Very Good 3.5
15. Content

16. Edge

    Tame 1.5

17. Sex Innocent 1.5

18. Violence Gentle 1.5

19. Rudeness Polite 1.5

21. Reality

    Surreal 2.9

22. Circumstantial Surreal 2.9

23. Biological Surreal 2.9

24. Physical Surreal 2.9