TheRetroCritic

Based on the popular novel comes Ender's Game , your typical boy-meets-girl, boy-becomes-army-commander-against-a-race-of-ant-aliens-in-space story. It certainly took a while for this one to get made but I guess with the success of The Hunger Games , it was only a matter of time before they actually gave it a go. That Ender's Game is a 12A is both surprising and not all that surprising since, although the source material has its brutal moments, studios need to sell it to kids as well as adults so they were never going to bump it up to a 15 or more. Not that the film is devoid of any dark stuff but it's much more implied than it is in-your-face. The young actors are also older than in the book, I understand, thereby making their cruel environment not quite as scary. If you don't know, the film is set 50 years after a war between humans and Formics (alien ant things) and sees a young boy called Ender (Asa Butterfield) get recruited by Harrison Ford's Colonel Graf