Genre:
Science-Fiction
Director:
Gavin Hood
Starring:
Harrison Ford, Asa Butterfield,
Hailee Steinfeld, Viola
Davis
Release Date:
Friday 01 November
Ender's Game is a 2013 American science fiction action film
based on the novel of the same name by Orson Scott Card. Directed and written
by Gavin Hood, the film stars Asa Butterfield as Andrew "Ender"
Wiggin, an unusually gifted child who is sent to an advanced military academy
in outer space to prepare for a future alien invasion. The cast also includes
Harrison Ford, Hailee Steinfeld, Viola Davis, Abigail Breslin, and Ben
Kingsley.
The film was first released in Germany on October 24, 2013,
followed by the United Kingdom and Ireland a day later. It was released in the
United States, Canada, and India on November 1, 2013, and will be released in
many other countries through January 2014.
Plot
In 2086, an alien species called the formics attacks Earth.
Mazer Rackham, commander of a small reserve patrol force, halts their advance
by appearing to sacrifice himself during their attack.
Years later, a young cadet named Andrew "Ender"
Wiggin beats Stilson at a hand-held virtual game while Colonel Hyrum Graff and
Major Gwen Anderson from the International Fleet watch via hidden cameras.
Ender is summoned to have the monitor on the back of his neck removed. Stilson
confronts him with his gang and shoves him. Ender violently retaliates by
knocking Stilson down and kicking him repeatedly in the chest. Ender returns
home and confesses grief to his sister Valentine over what he did. Their older
brother Peter interrupts them and convinces Ender to play a game. He starts to
choke Ender, threatening to kill him but pulls back. Graff and Anderson visit
the Wiggin family during dinner. They offer Ender a place in Battle School,
admitting that the final test was to see Ender would do upon having his monitor
removed. Graff talks privately with Ender, convincing him to accept.
Ender is the last to arrive at the shuttle taking off for
Battle School. He introduces himself to a new recruit seated across from him,
Bean. A student sitting near them, Alai, throws up after the shuttle enters
zero gravity. After arriving, the "launchies" are introduced to
Sergeant Dap, who explains how the Battle Room at the school works. Ender,
initially outcast by another launchie named Bernard, soon gains the respect of
the other launchies. Anderson authorizes for Ender to discover the "mind
game", a way for the school to secretly gauge the emotional state of the
students in the form of a video game. Ender's form in the mind game, a mouse,
meets a giant who offers him two drinks, one of which he claims is poisoned.
After trying each drink, both of which cause him to die, Ender then has his
character leap into the giant's eye, killing him. Anderson comments that she
had never seen anyone do that.
Ender is immediately transferred to Salamander Army where he
meets Commander Bonzo Madrid, Dink Meeker, and Petra Arkanian, who offers to
teach him how to shoot during free time. Bonzo takes a disliking to Ender.
During their first battle he orders him to hang back and observe once everyone
else has entered. Ender disobeys, goes to Petra's aid and the two formulate a
plan to win. Pushing off from her, Ender pretends to be frozen. Grabbing an
enemy's weapon he surprise attacks and freezes many members before being frozen
himself.
Ender continues with the mind game, seeing what looks like a
formic materialize and dissolve before him. He follows an animated version of
Valentine to a castle which has collapsed. Inside he fights a snake and sees an
animated version of Peter. Anderson is unable to explain to Graff how Ender's
"psycho brother" ended up in the mind game. Graff gives Ender command
of Dragon Army, which includes Alai, Bean, and Bernard. They quickly climb to
the top of the rankings in the school. Despite overwhelming odds, Ender manages
to defeat two armies at once, one of which includes Bonzo's Salamander Army. In
retaliation, Bonzo challenges Ender to a fight in the shower. In self-defense,
Ender kicks Bonzo causing him to fall backwards and hit his head.
Ender tells Graff he wants to see his sister. When Graff
refuses, Ender says he quits. Graff relents and allows Ender to return to
Earth. Graff drives Valentine to a lake where Ender takes her out on a boat.
She convinces him to re-enlist.
Ender and Graff travel to Eros, where the International
Fleet has established a command base in a former formic outpost. Ender meets
Mazer Rackham, who says he will now program simulations to challenge him before
the real battle. Assembling Ender's core friends from Battle School, together
they engage in several skirmishes. "Graduation Day" is to be their final
test, a simulation that takes place near the formic's home planet. By using the
"Little Doctor" device Ender manages to eradicate the forces
surrounding the planet. Every ship on the planet rallies to stop him but he
manages to get Petra a clear shot with the device again, which annihilates
everything. Graff then reveals that the "simulations" were real
battles and he has destroyed all of the formics. He tells Ender he will be
remembered as a hero but a remorseful Ender says he will be remembered as a killer.
After being sedated in his room Ender comes to realize that
the formics had tried to communicate with him in the Mind Game. He rushes to a
mountain similar to the one he saw in the game and find a Queen with a single
Queen egg remaining. It reaches out, presumably to kill him but stops when it
sees him crying. He promises to find a planet for the egg. The film ends with
him dictating a letter to Valentine. He's been promoted to Admiral and takes
off into space in a ship with the egg.
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References.
External links:
"Main Page." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, 5 Nov. 2013. Web. 5 Nov. 2013. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page>.
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