I have been waiting forever for them to turn one of my favorite books into a movie and now I wish they hadn't. I came into it understanding that this book is very complex and detailed and was prepared for them to have to leave certain things out. The amount of storylines that they rushed through without enough explanation or completely left out was so unnecessary and left me confused AND I READ THE BOOK! There was hardly any character development by the end of the movie I felt no real connection to Ender or anyone else for that fact. I understand they would like to have tweens come see this movie and their attention spans only last up to two hours tops but for this kind of book that has an older following they should have made it longer to really bring more out of the characters and the story. I would have happily sat there for another hour if it meant they could have included...more. AND ENDER AND PETRA ARE YOU SERIOUS!?

So if you've read the book, you probably realize just how hard it would been to accurately translate it into a movie. This adaptation was surprisingly good at keeping to the intent and purpose of the events in the book, which is really all you can ask for from a movie. It's a bit disappointing to see just how much had to be left out, but it really did have to be left out, as a movie just can't deal with the same scope of detail. So all in all, they did a remarkable job. All that said, I didn't walk out of this movie with the feeling that it was a really good movie. I thought "yeah, they got it right", but at the same time I just wasn't excited about it. I'm not sure what they could have (or should have) done differently, but I do wish the people behind making it could have figured that out.