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Ender's Game is a film based on the book by Orson Scott Card, first published in 1985, and is set to open wide in the U.S. on November 1, 2013..

The book was based on a short story originally published in 1977.

The film has a running time of 114 minutes and opened in Germany, the United Kingdom, and other countries in October.  Stars include Asa Butterfield, Harrison Ford, Ben Kingsley, Viola Davis, Hailee Steinfeld, and Abigail Breslin.

Empire Online has given the film a rating of 2/5 stars.  They note:

The film’s problems are dialogue-based; the script never quite explains why these children are so important, especially given that Ben Kingsley’s war hero, Mazer Rackham, is still around. Losing the novel’s Earth-set subplot, focusing on Ender’s siblings, means that we also lose context for both the war effort and for Ender’s deep-seated fear of turning into his sociopathic brother. And there are moments that fail: after a particularly draining war game, Ender and his team stand around as though waiting for dinner rather than reflecting the trauma they’ve just witnessed. The result is a slightly flattened take on a world that Card brought to life.

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