This is difficult to review, because almost everything about it, the CGI, locations, actors, and such could have made this a great movie, and really brought visions of ERB's stories to life.
But the one thing that doomed this from being what it should/could have been was the script/screenplay. And the kindest words I can think of to describe it are..., another Hollywood Bastardization of an excellent story.
The ERB Estate should have filed criminal charges for literary rape this movie did to the original ERB story.
Carter and Powell are prospectors/miners in the beginning. They are escaping Indians. No mention of U.S. Cavalry.
Everything about Carter's wedding rings, wife & child is sheer Hollywood B.S..
The Therns are not even mentioned in the first book, and had nothing whatsoever to do with John Carter's transportation to Mars, his return to Earth, or his return to Mars.
The whole River Iss segment has no place in the first book.
In short, we have a movie that visually well-presented images described in the books (9 outta 10 stars!), but except for some basic stuff, threw the original books story-line out with the trash (-4 outta 10 stars!).
Want to be entertained? Read the book.
Want to waste 2 hours? Watch the movie.
But the one thing that doomed this from being what it should/could have been was the script/screenplay. And the kindest words I can think of to describe it are..., another Hollywood Bastardization of an excellent story.
The ERB Estate should have filed criminal charges for literary rape this movie did to the original ERB story.
Carter and Powell are prospectors/miners in the beginning. They are escaping Indians. No mention of U.S. Cavalry.
Everything about Carter's wedding rings, wife & child is sheer Hollywood B.S..
The Therns are not even mentioned in the first book, and had nothing whatsoever to do with John Carter's transportation to Mars, his return to Earth, or his return to Mars.
The whole River Iss segment has no place in the first book.
In short, we have a movie that visually well-presented images described in the books (9 outta 10 stars!), but except for some basic stuff, threw the original books story-line out with the trash (-4 outta 10 stars!).
Want to be entertained? Read the book.
Want to waste 2 hours? Watch the movie.