LouHomey From my favorite movies..

Hadrina The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

Lidia Draper Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.

Scotty Burke It is interesting even when nothing much happens, which is for most of its 3-hour running time. Read full review

southdavid Little late to the party on this one, I accept, but maybe the TV experience will be slightly kinder than the harsh glare of the cinema screen on this notorious flop from a few years back. The answer.... not really. It's still an overlong, vaguely racist, horribly predictable, second rate action-adventure. Armie Hammer plays John Reid a pacifist district attorney who s his brother's posse to help track down notorious murdered Butch Cavendish (William Fichtner) and his gang. When the posse is betrayed, Reid's brother is killed and he is left for dead. He's restored by Silver, a Native American spirit horse and Tonto (Johnny Depp) who then forms a reluctant partnership with Reid and in going after Cavendish, they discover a larger conspiracy. There are a couple of reasons why "The Lone Ranger" doesn't really work. Much of the blame was landed at Johnny Depp's feet, as this was right around the time opinion turned on him and to be fair, much of that here is justified. Though spending some of the running time in awful "old man" make up doesn't help, the film never really settles on who "Tonto" is. At times he's possessing "native" insight and wisdom, at others he blunders around taking pratfalls and "feeding" the dead crow on his head, sadly, most of the time, he's just irritating.But those tonal problems roll out to the rest of the film too. It veers wildly between high farce and mild horror. Various scenes of slaughtered Indian Villages, and of Cavendish removing and eating Reid's brother's heart don't mesh well with the ladder riding pratfalls of the films climactic scenes. There are odd character choices too, such as the decision to make Reid in love with his brother's wife. . as if somehow he wouldn't be as motivated to save his brothers widow and his nephew if he wasn't also in in love with her. The reveal of the extra villain at the end was very underwhelming, if you can't work it out from the names on the poster, then you really haven't seen enough movies. The final action scene is a really good one, with a train split into several carriages that then traverses numerous crossing tracks that are (inexplicably) all going in the same direction, but unfortunately it's too little, too late, to justify the horrendous running time.

slightlymad22 Continuing my plan to watch every Johnny Depp movie in order, I come to The Lone Ranger.Before watching this movie today, I only knew a few things about it!! It had a troubled production, the studio interfered a lot, critics ripped it apart and it is one of the biggest financial flops of all time, allegedly losing the studio about 100million dollars. Reading up on it, it really was a troubled production. The problems included bad weather, wildfire, a chickenpox outbreak, and the accidental death of a crew member. These problems and the spirally budget almost led to the film's cancelation. Until Depp, Gore Verbinski, Jerry Bruckheimer, and Armie Hammer equally deferred twenty percent of their salaries, to minimize the overall cost. Disney then changed chairmen and the new chairman became very hands on including editing parts of the movie himself!! Depp was apparently very unhappy that most of the Native American subplot was axed all together!! On to the movie. I actually quite enjoyed it. To say I was pleasantly surprised, is an understatement, as I was not looking forward to watching this one. I asked my brother about it this morning, and he compared it to Waterworld saying "It's one of those movies people will like in 20 years time, when they watch it away from all of the hate" and I kind of get what he means!! It's not a great movie by any stretch. It's predictable, formulaic and it's all standard stuff, but it is certainly not a bad movie, I have seen a lot worse. I was entertained throughout and I laughed/chuckled and smiled more at this, than I did the recent Game Night. In fact I enjoyed this more than Jumanji!! I'm sure not many will share that thought though lol.Depp was criticised for A, not being Native American (there is Native American blood on his grandmothers side) and for acting too much like Captain Jack Sparrow. I can see where the last criticism is coming from, but I think he is more like Sam from Benny & Joon, then Captain Jack. I do have a few criticisms too!! A busty Helena Bonham Carter is on my dvd cover, but is only in two scenes!! I hate that!! Armies Hammer is devoid of any charisma and the twist was pretty obvious from quite early too!! But I was entertained throughout and not Johnny Depp openly criticized the reviews by American critics. Depp said "the reviews were written seven to eight months before we released the film. They were reviewing the budget, not reviewing the movie." The Lone Ranger grossed $89 million at the domestic box office to end 2013 as the 40th highest grossing movie of the year!!

Mihai Toma An outlaw Indian warrior, with the help of a prosecutor, sets to fight corrupt and power savvy railroad leaders who plan to take over America. After being chosen by a horse spirit, the lone ranger begins evolving from an employee of the law to a real legend, guided of course by someone who has more experience in "war".This movie isn't what you'd call a serious adventure. Although its story tends to be and the evil doers certainly are, the main characters manage to be very funny in their quest which will prove to be quite unexpected at times. The special effects are really great as well as the action sequences, in compensation for a not so complex story which doesn't involve the amount of drama which I hoped for. The lone ranger, at least in the beginning is a complete idiot which ruins everything but will eventually become the much needed hero while the Indian maintains the atmosphere. A good movie overall, although a bit below expectations.

vhclark-1 This movie consisted of 3 train wrecks.One at the beginning, one at the end.and a 2 hour one in between them.If it weren't for some decent special effects, it wouldn't be worth talking about.By far, worst rendition of The Lone Ranger ever made.