Following the trend of making movies set in space, such as Elysium, Gravity, and Oblivion, the book Ender’s Game has went through the conversion from novel to big screen picture also following the books-to-movies trend that the film industry seems to be following because it appears that Hollywood has officially ran out of original movie ideas. So welcome Ender’s Game to the big screen.

Ender’s Game is a science fiction (sci-fi) novel centered around a young kid named Andrew Wiggen (Also goes by the name “Ender”) who is selected to join the “Battle School’ and fight a hostile alien race called “Buggers” or “Formics” as they’re referred to later in the novel series.

According to various websites and such, the movie got mixed to positive reviews. I strongly disliked the novel but, I did have high hopes that the movie would rectify that. The film does start off on a different yet, more thrilling exposition (also known as a “beginning” or “start of the film”) where we see one of the more prominent character, Mazer Rackham, in the midst of a space battle with the so-called ‘Formics” which seemed like a reasonable way to start the film. It was actually better than how the book started. Once this little sequence is complete, we pick up where the book began, where Ender has his “monitor” on the back of his neck removed in a very painful fashion and on with the rest of the movie we go as Ender goes to battle school, makes new friends and is physically, mentally, and emotionally pushed to his limits.

The narrative was rushed compared to the book albeit, it was phenomenal.. As with most book-to-movie films, this one left out quite a large amount of detail but the movie was better without the detail even though I am a man of detail. The computer generated graphics (Or more commonly referred to as “CGI”) was inconceivable. Unlike Transformers, the film did not go overkill on it. It still relied heavily on it but once again, not overkill like Transformers.

I loved the movie. It was excellent. My only complaint was how rushed the plot appeared. This is honestly one of the very rare times I’ll ever say “Yes, the movie was so much better than the book.”