In an attempt to bring back the “Pirates of the Caribbean”-style action franchises, Disney unfortunately dragged up the hero from a hundred-year-old novel. The film focuses on John Carter, the titular character who is a former Confederate Army captain transported to Mars, where he becomes involved in an intergalactic war. The film’s action sequences are terrific, delivering plenty of mindless thrills. But once past its exciting beginning, the movie soon gets dragged down in a plot that is simply inexplicable. Director Andrew Stanton, who helmed both “Finding