Samuel Gross

This movie sucked. On the surface it looks fun, like it is supposed to be, but it is basically a piñata filled with concrete. The child actor they got for Ender could not carry any of the scenes. At no point in this movie did I get the slightest sense that I was looking at an intelligent person. The idea is that each Wiggin kid is a super genius, but neither Peter nor Valentine could command because they were too aggressive and too passive respectively. Ender is just nothing though. The only thing Ender seems to have going for him is how smart he is. I don't even feel like any of his friends like him, cardboard cutouts of characters that they are. Dumb movie.

This movie was fantastic! The camera work was incredible and never boring to watch. Visually, it was a masterpiece of color and energy. The action was the best we have had in the MCU since Spiderman took out Mysterio's drones. The final fight scene finally escaped the trope of the villain and hero having the exact same power, which was what I was expecting from the trailer going into the movie. The movie also did such an incredible job splicing in backstory at just the right moment that it was engaging and made the characters more interesting instead of distracting from the plot. There are some criticisms I have of the movie, such as the reliance on the trope of a perfectly peaceful society that gets attacked as a backstory/setting, the trope of killing off the villain right when he is at the point of redemption and could have an interesting character arc, and finally just the way that some of the jokes fell flat. But as a whole, this is undeniably the most unique and creative movie to be made this year, and it was incredible to get to watch it in theaters with the full super hero experience!