John Carter (2012) movie review

Walt Disney pictures has given some great movies in the animation and fantasy genre.John carter based on the Burroughs 'john carter of Mars' wrote these books a hundred years ago, but Disney pictures made it to the screen with the latest CG technologies and eye capturing motion techniques makes the movie a through entertainer with 3D

Cast: Taylor Kitsch, Lynn Collins, Willem Dafoe, Ciaran Hinds

Direction: Andrew Stanton

Genre: Adventure

Duration: 2 hours 12 minutes

Story

John Carter(Taylor Kitsch), an American war soldier who retires from the war world and involves himself in researching the historical caves. His Cousin comes to his house on the mysterious death of his uncle John..After the cremation , he has been handed a note by his lawyer. He goes through it and flashback opens the story of John Carter life in Mars. Before 10 years, John lands to gold cave, and in order to save himself from cannibals he gets in the cave and all of lights sparkling he lands into alien land by killing a cave guard who is Thorn in nature.

John gets a superhero kinda strength of jumping in the mars land because of the gravitational thing of human . Caught by the alien gang leader Thark( William) , with four hands and monster face takes him to the custody to kill him. On the same, Zodanga and Helium people gets into war .has Zodanga is blessed with hi-tech weapon..and so Helium nation people falls to his feet..Helium King signs a deal with Zodanga leader to get her daughter Deja Thoris(Lyn Collins) married to him..to stop the war and save the people. Deja ,hates him..escapes there and lands Tharks place. John with his jumping and fighting saves Deja from the Zodanga leader..even takes his space ship down..

Finding a right person to save her nation..Deja goes in for help of John and Tharks( they are also struggling with Zodanga and helium People attacks)..But John... wants to get back to his world,live a happy life with gold cave...Slowly ..after few incidents and the hidden truth ..John decides to travel with Princess of mares,Dejah to help and save mars..Cunningly,Deja is convinced by father to marry Zodanga for peaceful life..forget the human and his love..Thorn the, magic people behind Zodanga leader plans other wise to bring down helium with their big force after the marriage..How the rest of problem solved/save princess and mars by Carter unfold in a mesmerizing climax...

Strengths

Spectacular visuals and the eye-catching photography with some well woven enchanting screenplay are the undoubtedly the biggest assets.. The mars land, Helium nation sets, Barsoom dogs, Avatar style monsters, Space ships, costumes, sets , gladiator arena fight with big monkeys, ...every thing is there to fulfill the space for a adventure/fantasy movies...Visuals are grand and exotic..with some splendid photography added great special effects make the movie quite a good flick..Taylor is charismatic as John carter..does his job fantastic with his gym work body ..fight sequences...has some lively expressions but misses out in the emotion department. Initial jumping in the mars..is quite justified....

Lyn Collins as the Princess of mars..( red skin tone)is beautiful as Deja. Her chick costumes as warrior and princess explores her beauty ..skin....She is sexy, smart , emotes better than any other cast ...delivers the role of princess in gutsy style ...Lyn Collins Played the character , not acted a big relief ..Willaim Dafoe and Samantha as the four armed alien creatures has shown their expertise in the fantasy movie. Music is at grand scale which bask the movie very much to the success. Andrew Stanton who is popular for his animation flicks like wall E , Cars,Toy story ..this time with mix of man and monster engages the audience . The last 10 min of the climax is unexpected and sure..the strength of the whole movie...brilliant finish to the John Carter movie to continue a sequel.

Weakness

The movie is little long ..though the movie is rip of Burroughs John carter man of mars, it doesn't value the story...more importance to visuals and CG overshadows the late department.Lot of clumsy characters confuses the audience so who is good and who bad...few untold stories left with some unknown answers. Movie Resembles Avatar, Gladiator, Aliens etc.....Few frames and scenes are good but it isn't enough to carry out this big buck movie..

Don't go expecting the John carter man of mars novel, you will regret it..but go for some stunning visuals & awful graphics work...

Verdict: 5.5/10( 1 for visuals, 1 for Photography, 1 for Music, 1 for graphics, 1 for Lyn collins & cast, and .5 screenplay)

Movie canvas punch: John Carter is Massive...something to watch but some thing is missing too..

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