Extras include commentary with producers Gigi Pritzker and Bob Orci deleted and extended scenes. But it benefits greatly, at least for those who care about such things, by being about something – the morality of war and its methods – in a way that most movies of this type are not. Based on the popular and award-winning 1985 novel by Orson Scott Card, the film doesn’t need added suspense, bigger action or a better dramatic twist it’s got all of those, in more than serviceable amounts. ‘Ender’s Game’ (PG-13, 114 minutes, Lionsgate): There’s a moral heft to ‘Ender’s Game’ that lends ballast to the science-fiction adventure about futuristic military-academy cadets. Lee and a short on filming the girl fight scene. Also, on Blu-ray: alternate ending deleted and extended scenes with commentary by writer/director/producer Malcolm D. Extras include gag reel and making-of featurette, with a look at how the ‘Best Man’ characters and actors have evolved. Contains profanity, sexual content and brief nudity. And you watch to take in the quietly regal Monica Calhoun, whose subdued performance sneaks up and grabs you. You watch to giggle at Terrence Howard, then are unexpectedly moved during a frank encounter when he talks about money with one of his friends. You watch to see Morris Chestnut take that shirt off. You watch for its myriad, adamantly un-cerebral pleasures. ‘Best Man Holiday’ (R, 122 minutes, Universal): As with 1999’s ‘The Best Man,’ it’s the actors who bring warmth, humanity and compulsive watchability to every moment of ‘The Best Man Holiday.’ You don’t watch ‘The Best Man Holiday’ to deconstruct its flaws. Extras include commentary with Chandor and producers Neal Dodson and Anna Gerb ‘Big Film, Small Film’ featurette on making a complicated film with a limited budget four making-of vignettes a ‘Preparing for the Storm’ featurette with storyboards, special-effects reel, time-lapse footage and an unique pre-shooting clip in which a director of photography, Peter Zuccarini, takes on the Redford role and Chandor ‘plays’ the wind and sea.

The beating heart at the center of Chandor’s daunting exercise is Redford, who plays his nameless adventurer in a nearly wordless performance with the wary determination a generation came to know and adore throughout the 1970s. Chandor distills that idea to its visually purest form yet, in a one-man study of revealing character through action, showing not telling and taking filmgoers on a physical and existential voyage that proves why big-screen movies can still matter. A harrowing man-at-sea adventure features Robert Redford as an isolated and adrift sailor in the midst of an indifferent, wantonly cruel universe.

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