John Carter Movie Reviews


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2.3
Verdict: Timepass based on 3 reviews
Avg. User Rating
2.9
Verdict: Cool based on 183 reviews & ratings
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  • Allen O' Brien

    4.0

    Allen O' Brien | Times Of India

    So what if this movie is based on the book -- Princess of Mars -- by Edgar Rice Burroughs written some 100 odd years ago. Nothing could have made it more topical in a day and age when 21st century science is all out to crack Da Martian Code by stepping foot on planet Mars. And if Andrew Stanton's visualisation of the planet in John Carter is anything to go by, bingo is the word. Yes, the Red Planet has never looked so inviting. The Martian landscape is exotic, mysterious, mesmerising
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  • Rajeev Masand

    1.5

    Rajeev Masand | ibnlive.com

    It's hard to believe that the same filmmaker who made us fall in love with a waste-recycling robot is responsible for the over-long, humourless adventure that is 'John Carter'. Directed by animation veteran Andrew Stanton (of Wall-E and Finding Nemo), this expensive, live-action film is based on a series of Edgar Rice Burroughs' 100-year-old fantasy-romance novels, and features Taylor Kitsch as a former Civil War soldier in Arizona
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  • Mihir Fadnavis

    1.5

    Mihir Fadnavis | Mid-Day

    John Carter is a triumph of production design and CGI (Computer-generated imagery) over plot and character development. The film that cost nearly $300 million is frustrating for the way it simply refuses to entertain. Watching John Carter makes one feel battered and exploited because after the first half hour, it just becomes an unbearable exercise in mediocrity and progressively more terrible 3D. Director Andrew Stanton, who has made Pixar classics
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