Barsoom’s red dust just got a whole lot redder, and John Carter’s legend finally gets the sequel it’s been begging for since 2012.

Taylor Kitsch straps back into the harness as the Earthman-turned-warlord, older, scarred, but still leaping taller than any Thark. Lynn Collins’ Dejah Thoris rules Helium with fierce intellect while the planet chokes—Ninth Ray engines flickering out, rivers turning to rust. The only hope? A mythical second Heart of Mars buried inside hollow Phobos, now a graveyard moon littered with the wrecks of forgotten empires.

Carter commands a ragtag fleet of creaking ancient airships on a desperate ascent. Thomas Haden Church returns as the loyal, gravel-voiced Tars Tarkas, while Dominic West’s Sab Than crawls back from the grave (or something darker) leading the First Born pirates who’ve claimed the moon as their fortress.

The final hour? Pure insanity. A 55-minute war inside Phobos’ cavernous core—sword fights on crumbling crystal bridges, airships exploding in silence, city-sized fragments calving off and raining fire onto Barsoom below. Carter vs. the First Born king in a brutal, gravity-defying duel as the moon literally cracks apart.

Ends with Carter’s ultimate sacrifice: staying behind to become the living core, restarting the Heart with his own life force. Earth loses its son forever. Mars breathes again.

Epic, heartbreaking, visually insane. The wait was brutal—this payoff is beautiful.

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