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This entertaining adventure features a boy called Ender who is a sci-fi mixture of Harry Potter and Lord Blakeney, the 11-year-old midshipman in Master and Commander sensationally promoted to captain. I assumed it had been adapted from some tweeny/young adult series of recent vintage; it's actually an updating of a chunky 80s bestseller by Orson Scott Card, an author now controversial for his creepy, reactionary political views. Ender (Asa Butterfield) is a brilliant teenage military recruit who lives in a future in which Earth is under threat of attack. Our leaders find that only computer-literate teenage boys have the necessary gaming skills and killer instinct to command hi-tech defence fleets. (Teenage girls are allowed to be good at it, too … kind of.) Ender has to master Quidditchy war games and full-rig battle simulations, and forms a platonic tendresse for female recruit Petra (Hailee Steinfeld) who is his Hermionesque BF. As his Napoleonic brilliance and ruthlessness emerge, he is promoted by the boot camp leader, who is Graff by name, gruff by nature and played by Harrison Ford. He is moreover mentored by enigmatic Zen teacher Rackham, played by Ben Kingsley with a startling Maori face tattoo and an entirely absurd New Zealand icksint. The movie's apocalyptic finale indicates that it's bitten off considerably more than it can chew in terms of ideas, but it looks good, and the story rattles along.
Variously punted as Harry Potter meets Star Wars or Star Wars meets The Hunger Games, this ambitious adaptation of Orson Scott Card's 1980s novel would make an interesting double bill with Paul Verhoeven's Starship Troopers. Both films are about young men and women being trained to fight interstellar bugs with quasi-fascist ruthlessness; both films have deliberately distanced themselves from their source author's problematic politics (anti-communist and anti-gay respectively); both emerge on screen as subversive tracts on the dehumanising effects of state-sanctioned violence.
Asa Butterfield (who impressed in The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas and Hugo) stars as the gifted geek selected by an embattled, militaristic Earth to lead the fight against invasion by alien Formics – insect-like aggressors most recently bested by the sacrifice of legendary pilot Mazer Rackham. Ender is a whiz at computer-controlled war games, but to win the real battle he must become a cold-blooded killer – so we're basically talking The Last Starfighter meets Heart of Darkness. Having cut his teeth on the socio-political themes of Tsotsi and Rendition, Gavin Hood knows that the real interest here lies not in the futuristic sci-fi spectacle (which is handled efficiently) but in the more contemporary issues of virtual violence, and jaw-jaw versus war-war. These he pursues with some doggedness; there's a grim undertow which culminates in a shockingly bleak false ending, followed by an unconvincingly salving coda.

Harrison Ford growls as the old-school warmonger with no time for niceties, while Ben Kingsley continues his experiments with unusual vocal inflections, pitching his performance somewhere between the Mandarin from Iron Man 3 and the Hood from Thunderbirds. Harrison Ford growls as the old-school warmonger with no time for niceties, while Ben Kingsley continues his experiments with unusual vocal inflections, pitching his performance somewhere between the Mandarin from Iron Man and the Hood from Thunderbirds.