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Best movie ever!

The first must-see film of the year.

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

Unshakable, witty and deeply felt, the film will be paying emotional dividends for a long, long time.

I loved the idea of bringing this story into a film it had been done before but not as good as this. I liked the way the low gravity on Mars was used to give John Carter strength. The fight in the arena was very well executed. Any lover of the Edger Rice Burrows books would have loved this film it's a great pity it was not continued on in further films. The actor playing the lead part was excellent. The main problem I fear was the title John Carter they should have just added the words on Mars. So the film should have been called John Carter of Mars. I loved the twist at the end.

Just went through my list of ratings and surprisingly found that community and critics ratings are still low for this movie , and I still don't know why this happen , since it has the plot , design , graphics of a solid movie Maybe someone can help me with this mystery?

As other reviewers have pointed out, Disney badly botched the marketing of this film, which cost $250 million to make. The important thing is, in the production of this film, IT SHOWS. Buy the DVD and feast on the visuals and original soundtrack. This movie is a visual feast, even if it is not a theatrical tour-de-force of the actor's craft. That is the point, nor is the original story, per se. It is the storytelling of the production that succeeds best, but like any great storytelling, the real feast is in the retelling or rewatching of an old story. In this regard, John Carter is a classic, like the original novel it derives from.In spite of its marketing department being out to lunch, the Disney factor counts. Disney knows how to make great movies, even though their product is cloyingly formulaic at times. The script of "John Carter" derives from Edgar Rice Burrough's sci-fi classic, "A Princess of Mars". John Carter thus has some pedigree of greatness. The character of Tars Tarkus, in particular, benefits from the eminence-grise of Wilhem Dafoe's voiceover, making the CGI character heroic, even (if you stretch your poetic imagination) vaguely Christ-like. The casting and a direction of the movie are well above average, and for its time, the CGI is outstandingly executed, and well-conceived aesthetically. Mars/Barsoom is a vast wasteland full of archeological riches and a dying ecosystem, which is brilliantly (if not exactly scientifically) depicted. The location sets, including Victorian-era New York city and ante-bellum Virginia, are superb. The rest -- costumes, makeup, lighting -- all reflect the huge budget. One just doesn't get the same look or feel from CGI. This is an old-fashioned epic blockbuster, that fell flat for no good reason I can discern.

This movie was bad -- there are no other words for it. The sad thing is, with its premise, there was NO WAY this movie could have been good. The only move with a worse premise is "Yor - The Hunter from the Future". Look ythat one up on IMDB! In any case, the premises are nearly the same, in Yor a caveman defeats aliens who possess spaceships and lasers, and in John Carter, a civil war soldier defeats aliens who possess spaceships and lasers. A civil war soldier. defeats aliens wielding lasers for airborne craft. Are you still wanting to defend this? How was he able to accomplish this? Because he could jump well -- because the gravity on Mars is less than on Earth, he could jump really far -- much farther than would physically be possible, in fact. Also it appeared he intermittently had superhuman strength. Since punching is more horizontal than vertical, the gravity thing doesn't really influence it -- so I am not sure where this superhuman strength came from, or why one minute he could kill a big alien with one punch and the next he punched a normal sized person and they fell over (not dead) when you'd expect them to fly across the room (and be dead). Also, the end... I hope he knows the princess has moved on in the last ten years. Especially after (she thinks) he bailed on her. Just sayin'.