The Lone Ranger - Movie Review

The Lone Ranger Movie Review

The plot, though overly complicated in the telling, is actually quite simple. Educated lawyer John Reid (Armie Hammer) returns to his hometown of Colby, on a train that’s carrying the fearsome violent bad guy Butch Cavendish (William Fichtner), who is being hauled in by the local civic bigwig Latham Cole (Tom Wilkinson) so that the killer can be publicly hanged in order to assure the townsfolk of their safety. Also on the train bringing Butch and John to Colby is Tonto (Johnny Depp), a mystical whom we eventually learn has been shunned by his tribe and has revenge on his mind due to events from his past. After Cavendish pulls off an elaborate escape with the help of his gang, a posse led by John’s older brother Dan (James Badge Dale) hunt down the bandits until they are ambushed and massacred by the Cavendish crew. Surprisingly, John survives the attack and is rescued by Tonto, who informs the gun-shy Texan that he is now a spirit warrior who can’t be killed in battle. John dons a black mask, and he and Tonto work together to seek vengeance.

Depp’s Tonto is not Jack Sparrow of the West. The character is more subdued, the laugh lines a little more nuanced. … Depp, even though he is hidden deep in make-up and wears a dead bird (or is it?) on his head for much of the film and feed’s it, still manages to draw us in. Unlike Sparrow, Tonto is not flamboyant. He is smart and patient as he carries around the weight of a childhood trauma.

‘The Lone Ranger’ revels in its sense of excess but it doesn’t get fun until that final twenty minutes. It’s hard to deny that the final chase in and around two moving trains is entertaining.

As a Western action-comedy, this finds a middle ground between the awfulness of ‘The Wild Wild West’ and the solid entertainment of ‘Maverick.’

Though with 150 minutes of storytelling, it takes 2.5 stars, I give an extra .5 star because it has Johnny Depp. I can’t see any other actor pulling off a dead-bird on his head with such fineness.
So unless you are not a Depp fan, which I believe that it’s tough to be, you ought to see the movie!!!!

3 stars
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