'Ender's Game' Review: The Kids Are Not Alright  The classic
young adult sci-fi novel translates well to the big screen
October 31, 2013 RSS Feed Print Asa Butterfield plays the
titular character in the film adaptation of Orson Scott Card's
bestselling 1985 novel, "Ender's Game."   How far should a
society go to assure its survival? Should it go as far as to
strip a class of children of their innocence – training them to
be merciless super-soldiers, in charge of entire fleets? That is
the conclusion humanity has come to in "Ender's Game" – based on
Orson Scott Card's 1985 young adult novel of the same title –
facing an existential, intergalactic threat from an enemy alien
species known as the Formics.   Haunted by a Formics invasion 50
years earlier that killed millions before being fended off by a
seemingly miraculous act of one Messianic kamikaze pilot (Ben
Kingsley), the international community has decided its best hope
is finding a new savior among its middle school set. Col. Hyrum
Graff (Harrison Ford)