Sandie Angulo Chen, Common Sense Media. John Carter learns to stop being selfish and do something to help others. Dejah Thoris is a powerful female character who knows how to defend herself and to inspire John Carter to see beyond his own survival.

This movie should of been more successful and despite what most of the critics and viewers are saying about this movie, "that its a lot like Star Wars and. John Carter is played by Taylor Kitsch, who co-starred with Collins in "Wolverine." Yes, I agree Kitsch is a curious name for a star in action movies. Still, that is his real name, and one can wonder how many fans of "Wolverine," for example, are familiar with the word or its meaning.

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As an actor, he is perfectly. John Carter movie reviews & Metacritic score: Born in Virginia and a veteran of the Civil War, John Carter is an honorable and courageous man. I think the critics looked at the price of the movie, and expected something on the level of Avatar. And because no one knew what John Carter was really. The fantasy-romance adventures of a civil war veteran transported to Mars made for a giant, suffocating John Carter is one of those films that is so stultifying, so oppressive and so mysteriously and interminably long that I felt as if someone had. Chris Stuckmann reviews John Carter, starring Taylor Kitsch, Lynn Collins, Samantha Morton, Mark Strong, Ciaran Hinds, Dominic West, James Purefoy, Daryl.

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All Critics. "John Carter" is certainly an interesting idea for a film, with a power struggle on an alien world and an outsider affecting the balance, but sadly it never ends up fully working. Taylor Kitsch as John Carter; Lynn Collins as Dejah Thoris; Willem Dafoe as Tars Tarkas; Samantha Morton as Sola; Thomas Haden Church as Tal Movie Review. Before Jake Sully, before Han Solo, before virtually every science fiction hero you can brainstorm in two minutes or less, there was John.

John Carter is a rousing science fiction adventure, with all sorts of fabulous, thrilling daring do. The main impetus of the action is saving the damsel in One of the movie's logos is simply JC with an "M" below it for Mars. The problem with the movie's idea of a savior, however, is that Jesus Christ didn't. Read the Empire Movie review of John Carter.