We continue
redux month with another book-based failed franchise starter and one of my earliest
reviews, Ender’s Game.
I’m not
attempting to distance myself from previous review, I do still stand by a lot
of what I said, I just thought that bringing in the book would add some more
perspective this one. Orson Scott Card is not a great human being. Anti-gay
activist, equating homosexuality to paedophilia, you can guess where this is
going. I did not know all of this when I originally bought the DVD, it just
looked interesting to me, so I decided to pick it up.
I have since
got rid of it, but thankfully it was up on Netflix so I didn’t need to order
another copy. The critical result is
just above the margin for Fresh ratings (with 61% with critics and 65 with
audiences) but the box office doomed this film and the franchise that could’ve
followed.
