ENDER'S GAME

Do you remember playing games of Monopoly as a child, when tensions were high and games long? Best to get comfortable for yet another long game – but this time, don’t expect to be the winner.

Ender Wiggin (Asa Butterfield) is a child prodigy who is chosen to attend an elite military training camp located in space. Here, he's taught all about the enemy, who almost destroyed earth during an invasion, and who they now must destroy. He must learn all of this while trying to fit in socially with the other gifted pupils, learn to be his own sort of leader and to challenge the authority of Colonel Graff (Harrison Ford).

The first thing that strikes you as you watch 'Ender’s Game' is that it feels like it should have been in 3D. Its absence oddly adds to the film's general incomplete nature; there is just something missing. So much of this movie is left unexplained, and so much of this film is dictated to the audience. It is at a constant struggle with itself to establish the world and characters, without giving away too much of the game. It's a shame that with such a powerhouse of a cast - Harrison Ford and Sir Ben Kingsley included - that characters are so throwaway and two-dimensional.