Disney’s adaptation of the John Carter comics, in which a 19th Century American war hero is beamed onto Mars, where he encounters warring alien races.
Arguably 2012’s biggest cinematic flop, JC (that’s John Carter not Jesus Christ) was hoped to be the big, bold adventure film to compete with this year’s cooler, darker movies (The Dark Knight Rises, The Bourne Legacy etc). However, if cinema tickets are anything to go by, Disney executives will be ready to hang themselves by their Mickey Mouse ties.
John Carter is a calamity of a movie, offering an array of wild creatures battling out on a desert-stricken version of the red planet, without giving any sense of character, plot or point. The movie manages to wile away two hours of screen time, moving from battle to battle, and we see plenty of four-armed aliens and super-technical spaceships, but are never given any hint of depth.
The script is predictably hollow, and the villains are predictably linear (how many times can Mark Strong play this role?). Where JC does thrive is in the special effects, with plenty of striking visuals and daring stunts - in particular the lead character defying gravity on Mars as he makes stupendous leaps across battlefields.
Without any chance at a sequel, this film will probably go down as an epic cult failure.
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