2.5 Stars - Waste of Promising Ideas and Cast
What a waste of Mark Strong... and Dominic West... and Ciaran Hinds... and Willem Dafoe... and... wait Bryan Cranston is in it too? damn it!
John Carter tells the story of a man sent to Mars and gets the super power of jumping.
This film could have been quite good, but there was just a little too much of it. There is a lot of clear thought put into it, the culture of the Martians is displayed very well, and is very interesting. However the characters are pretty boring and at 2 hours and 10 minutes it is way too long.
A major flaw in this film was the framing device of John Carter's nephew reading about the adventure in a diary, so we know that he will get out of it alive, therefore there is no reason to get invested, which is a shame.
If they had cut out a few scenes and fleshed out some of the characters a bit more this could have been a very entertaining film.
If they had cut out a few scenes and fleshed out some of the characters a bit more this could have been a very entertaining film.
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