MOVIE REVIEW: John Carter

And here I was thinking that “Cowboys & Aliens” was going to be the only movie I would see to make the cockamamie merging between a traditional Western set in the 19th century and a science-fiction action epic involving extraterrestrial life forms. The title character in “John Carter” (played by Taylor Kitsch, or Gambit in “X-Men Origins: Wolverine”) starts out as an unruly Virginian cavalryman