John Carter

John Carter

Rating 6 out of 10

It seems like Disney has been playing commercials for this movie for a year.  I had high hopes for this one.  A fantasy mixed with lots of action.  The movie delivers on the action (especially if you haven't seen the previews over and over.  The story is several times more complicated than it needs to be.  The story of John Carter comes from a classic novel starting back a hundred years ago.

John Carter is an ex captain in the civil war looking for gold when he stumbles upon a port that zips him to a desert on Mars.  Turns out Mars is not full of little green men.  Half the inhabitants are cool tall green people with four arms and horns off their face.  The other half for some reason look like humans.  The human Martians have been in a civil war for many years.  John because of the difference  in the gravity is able to leap tall buildings (or big rocks) in a single bound.  Both sides want John to fight with them.  He knows which side is the good side because the princess is really hot.  There is something about a third group that wants to take over the whole planet, but it got too deep for me.

Taylor Kitsch plays our hero John Carter.  He is mostly famous from the tv show Friday Night Lights that I never watched and one of the X-men films.  He does a good job here.  The hot princess is played by the lovely Lynn Collins who was also in that last X-men movie.  The acting on the whole is very good.  Its the story that needs a little work.

This is a good-enough action movie that if you want to see it I'd recommend an early showing.  I saw the non- 3D version cuz I don't like 3D.  Didn't feel like I missed anything.  Leaving the theater I did wish I had four arms like the cool green guys!