Reviews in the Nick of Time: John Carter of M***

Honestly, I have no idea why this movie didn't do better at the box office.  It's not perfect, but in the category of action SF movies that make no sense, this one is head and shoulders above the rest.And it's got a reason why it doesn't make any sense.  The book it was based on was written a hundred years ago, when folks didn't know shit about Mars or space travel or science or anything.  Back in the Nineteen-oughts, people probably thought it was a perfectly sensible thing to carry a sword ...