Matrixston Wow! Such a good movie.

AutCuddly Great movie! If you want to be entertained and have a few good laughs, see this movie. The music is also very good,

Catangro After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.

Ogosmith Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

nightroses This is the ultimate sci-fi B movie night film to enjoy with popcorn. I really enjoyed watching this. The film has good special effects for low budget, a good storyline, funny lines, interesting aliens and monsters. It's obvious that many would hate it and give this a very low rating because it's not a mainstream film and it's just a decent science fiction. It doesn't have any Hollywood pap or any of the popular PC fillups. it's just devoid of this rubbish you get in big blockbusters these days. It's better than a lot of Hollywood big films. Sometimes the smaller productions are really entertaining. I also want to point out that if you suffer arachnophobia, please don't watch this.

michael-51-881994 This movie made me nostalgic for a couple of things at once. The first is the series of Edgar Rice Burroughs movie adaptations that came out in the late 1970's, such as "At the Earth's Core" and "The Land That Time Forgot." Both movies starred Doug McClure, which was okay, but which was sort of like casting Joe Don Baker as Tarzan. This movie goes with a much better lead, the lean, muscular, gritty Sabato, Jr. The other blast of nostalgia was for the 1930's Flash Gordon serials. I could close my eyes and just about hear Buster Crabbe when Sabato, Jr. was trying to speak believable dialogue in ridiculous circumstances. Another thing that made the film reminiscent of Flash Gordon was the filming location - Bronson Canyon.I really have to congratulate the filmmakers for not going the teen heartthrob route with John Carter. They could easily cast a "cool" 22 year old with a wild mane of hair and a snotty attitude. I'm so glad that they didn't.The green Martians, quite naturally, suffered from the budget. I mean, there was no way that even a reasonably budgeted flick could pull off two hours' worth of decently animated four armed giant desert savages. As a result, the green Martians are more like the Tuskan Raiders in Star Wars, and that's okay.The weakest link, other than the goofy plot device that sends Carter to Mars in the first place, was the Princess of Mars herself, portrayed by Traci Lords. Someone with the looks and bearing of a Penelope Cruz or a young Caroline Munro (McClure's leading lady in the 70's) would have been better fit for the role. Lords was more like a queen mother than a princess, but she pushed the film along with stern determination.It's unfortunate that Edgar Rice Burroughs' name isn't attached to the piece, but I have to remember that this is an unauthorized adaptation of a 1911 magazine story (book publication 1917) that has been in the public domain for quite awhile.The film also struck me as a slightly pro-Israeli political allegory, but maybe that's just my own overactive imagination. Just watch it for yourself.

ctomvelu1 Extrenmely low-budget adaptation of the first novel in ERB's classic "John Carter of Mars" series, shot for the SyFy Channel after it was announced there would be a big budget adaptation of some of the Carter novels for a 2012 theatrical releases. You know you're in trouble when the leads are played Antonio Sabato and Tracy Lords. The slightly built Sabato is no one's idea of Carter (who was a strapping soldier from the late 1800s in the novels) and Lord is about 20 years too old to play Dejah Thoris, princess of Mars. Plus neither can act, and their frequent closeups show a range of expression from A to The writers took tremendous liberties with the book (which can be read online for free), some of which I understand for want of a budget. But others, like changing Carter from a post-Civil War, Indian-fighting officer to a modern-day soldier, is unforgivable. Badly photographed and choreographed on top of everything else. Decent music, which would have been better put to use in an entirely different movie. Skip it. By the bye, I notice the box notes suggest this story inspired James Cameron's AVATAR. Nothing could be further from the truth. AVATAR was a remake of a cartoon from the late 1980s or early 90s, FERN GULLY.

Shaun Choo This is my third review in the series of Asylum films. This film is undoubtedly the worst Asylum film I have seen so far. Let me tell you why.First of this film's DVD cover has the tag line "The classic story that inspired James Cameron's Avatar." I think you can tell what film they are trying to use to market this film.So anyway the story is about a soldier who meets an almost fatal end. But before he dies, his commanding officer sends him to Mars. Not the Mars that we have come to know of today but a different type of Mars where he can rest and recuperate. Inevitably he lands in the middle of a war on the planet and instead has to find a way to put an end to this war. Oh and there is a princess thrown in just for fun.Lets start with whats good about this film. The CGI is the only thing that does not suck that much.Now the bad part. Where do I begin. OK firstly the character that Antonio Sabato Jr plays is just plain boring,half the time his acting is just plain stiff. I was dying for just a hint of decent action. Even the fight sequences is boring. Then there's the princess played by former porn star Traci Lords. Her acting is probably the worst among all the actors.As a matter of fact the whole movie was boring and lame with the same cheesy lines you know of.The writing is just stupid and clumsy. With no thought of anything original to write about. And as for the directing I seriously think that the director has not the slightest clue on where the camera should be placed.Give this damn film a pass, believe me you will not be missing anything out if you skip this film.My next Asylum review will be on the film "I am Omega".