Wednesday, 4 July 2012

Disaster on Mars?


John Carter (2012)

Based on the pulp novel A Princess of Mars this adaptation from director Andrew Stanton stars Taylor Kitsch, Lynn Collins and Mark Strong. Transported from 1880s America to Mars a former Confederate Army captain becomes involved in the Martian civil war.

Given the reputation that this film has I did not have high expectations going into this film but this film is more a world of missed opportunities rather than actually bad. Neither the plot nor characters have any real depth and there may be the odd scene or two that appears to be missing but if you just sit down and turn off your brain the story unfolds fairly inoffensively. With such a huge budget you would expect something more of the special effects and action sequences of the film but again none of these are anything beyond average.

3/5

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