So I just got back from Ender’s Game.

Me, a fan of the book for years, liked it.

Awesome Roommate, who has never read the books, liked it

further thoughts under the cut with some spoilers for the book and movie.

They simply dropped the whole Peter/Valentine subplot. I can understand that, since kids writing forum posts on the internet posing as adults wouldn’t have been that interesting on film. You still had a sense of what Peter and Valentine mean to Ender.

The mind game looked pretty good, actually.

Of course, yes, the actors are all older then the characters in the book, but you still get a sense of their youth.

Yes they left out large swaths of battle school and battle room, but hey it’s a 2 hour movie, what they did show was great and kept the plot moving along.

So was it perfect, no, but did it keep the spirit of the book intact? I think so. The acting was great, it looked pretty amazing and similar to what imanaged. So I’d recommend this movie.