Ender's Game

PG-13
Starring: Asa Butterfield, Harrison Ford, Viola Davis, Ben Kingsley, Abigail Breslin and Hailee Steinfield.
1 Hour and 54 Minutes

This is a dynamic set in the future movie centered around a young man named Ender Wiggin (Asa Butterfield). Fifty years ago the earth was attacked by an alien race known as the Formics. Fearful that they might attack again, the International Fleet is looking to find a replacement for their legendary hero, Mazer Rackham (Ben Kingsley) who had saved the earth from the attack by the Formics.
Ender is being watched and then recruited by the International Fleet because of his intelligence, resolve and his amazing abilities. Colonel Graff (Harrison Ford) has been watching him and chooses him above the other students to be pulled out of his school and his home to be sent away to the legendary Battle School located somewhere in earth's orbit on a space station.There he becomes a part of a team where they train and battle other teams to see who is the best both mentally and physically and who has the best battle skills. He trains with the other students where he encounters ridicule and jealousy to the point of being belittled and bullied. He does not let that stop him, he is committed to doing his very best and he continues to train and study for the war games. Little by little he starts to gain the respect of his peers and excels to the point of being advanced to a more highly skilled team. He continues to focus and get better and more sophisticated with his skills.
He finds himself getting homesick and missing his family, especially his sister Valentine (Abigail Breslin) when they cut off his emails from home, he decides to quit and go home. When he arrives back home, Valentine confronts him and convinces him to go back and finish his training so that he has no regrets.
When he returns, he is sent to Command School where he is personally coached and trained by the one and only Mazer Rackham. He is commissioned to be the leader of a new team where they find themselves fighting an extreme simulation battle!
The movie is based on the book "Ender's Game" by Orson Scott Card. I found this movie to be entertaining and very interesting. I thought it was a very good story and I enjoyed it a lot. I loved how Ender was so determined and how he would never give up. It was also refreshing that there was no swearing or any suggestive scenes.
Parents be advised, it is rated PG-13 for sci-fi action and some disturbing situations where a monitoring device is removed from Enders neck and also a couple of intense fighting scenes.
I am giving "Ender's Game" three and a half bags of popcorn.