Ender's Game (2013) - Not A Child's Play But...

★★☆☆☆

I know, right from the beginning, that Ender’s game is by no means a child’s play. There’s more than meets the eyes. Indeed it’s got a very important message that all human beings should get to learn I suppose, that is, exactly like Prot teases in the sci-fi classic ‘K-PAX’, ‘…this policy of an eye for an eye, a life for a life, which is known throughout the universe for its stupidity’, but the way the story’s played out is pretty much a turnoff.

‘Ender’s Game’ seems like a stupid game at first, and as it develops, it gets even more stupid, particularly the zero gravity training part as well as the final simulation. Neither does it feel like a funny show to kids nor a serious sci-fi drama to grownups. You know what, you need extra patience to stay till the end of it, where you’re told, with no surprise, that this is just the end of the beginning! Come on!

The ending is a bit sad, and predictable, which may leave us rather pissed off or disappointed. I know we human beings are full of ourselves. We always feel like there’s something much more intelligent preying on us, wanting to take over our planet. But I believe, there are a whole lot of better worlds than Earth out there in the universe. That Earth is nothing but a tiny dirty grain of sand to whoever able to space travel so far to get here.