Full Movie Reviews
Rating of
2/4
"The Lone Ranger" by Yojimbo
Yojimbo - wrote on 12/19/2016
A bumbling lawyer left for dead by a gang of ruthless outlaws is rescued by an enigmatic Comanche warrior and becomes a masked vigilante.
Quite why Disney thought that resurrecting a TV show that had stopped running before their parents were born would be irresistible to the children of today I'm not quite sure, but they no doubt assumed that the combination of Johnny Depp and Gore Verbinski would be money in the bank. But rather than Cowboys Of The Caribbean, what we have in The Lone Ranger is a post modern, comic western that shows not one iota of the qualities that made their previous collaboration work so well. Johnny Depp's dubious casting for the part of Tonto notwithstanding, he displays none of the charisma and charm of Jack Sparrow, instead relying solely on computer-assisted …
Rating of
2.5/4
A relaxing action/adventure comic hero-story
ikkegoemikke - wrote on 03/23/2015
"Never take off the mask"
It seems like ages since I've seen a western. I'm immediately teleported back in time when I was still a little kid. There was almost on a weekly base somewhere an old western on the TV. Usually on Friday afternoons you could see one on a German channel with Roy Rogers, after a cartoon of "Schweinchen Dick" or some slapstick movie starring Buster Keaton. And in the weekends it was always somewhere late at night on ARD, ZDF or WDR. My dad thought there was only one kind of genre movie worth to watch ... indeed Westerns. Everybody was stubbornly silent about the fact that those guys walked around in that time with real crappy guns and probably couldn't hit an elephant at 2 meters. I promised myself that I'd never see a western again... or someone should force …
Rating of
2.5/4
The Long Ranger (cuz it's too dam long)
Indyfreak - wrote on 07/23/2014
This movie has a lot going for it but by god it wants you to hate it anyway. To be honest, my review is for a two star movie but I enjoyed it more than I though I would so that's what the half star is for.
All the problems with this movie stem from the fact that it is too f**king long and the writers (same duo behind POTC film series) clearly had no idea how to fill up the inconceivable 2.5 hour running time. Whose idea was to make this two and a half hours long?!?!?! If one was to take the first act and the finale (the best parts of the film) and make a movie out of that, they'd be alright but they just had to **** this up anyway, didn't they?
Johnny Depp is channeling all his previous roles but he looks like he's enjoying himself for once. Armie Hammer seriously got screwed over by …
Rating of
2.5/4
Lone Ranger Rides Again... to Middling Results
Chris Kavan - wrote on 12/06/2013
Johnny Depp has pretty much made a career out of playing misfit characters. From Edward Scissorhands to Ed Wood to Captain Jack Sparrow - pretty much every role is something a bit off center. But lately, Depp has found out that quirky doesn't necessarily mean success. Alice in Wonderland was merely adequate, Dark Shadows was a letdown but if anyone could bring Depp back it would be Gore Verbinski - the man who gave us arguably the most memorable character in year in the aforementioned Jack Sparrow. And I'm guessing that Disney was hoping Lone Ranger was going to be another successful franchise like Pirates.
Yet Lone Ranger is no Pirates. They follow roughly the same outline but is doesn't have that spark. For one thing, Armie Hammer (who has done great in supporting roles) just …
Rating of
3/4
Hope for the Western Genre
Looneymanthegreat - wrote on 07/03/2013
The Lone Ranger is a very flawed movie. Its tone (and much of its plot) seems to be a random hodgepodge of different Ideas they head for a Lone Ranger movie, none of which meld together particularly well. The result is a movie that is often jarring in its plot and tonal shifts; a big bag of western lunacy.
That’s only partially a negative critique, since the bizarreness of it all makes the movie strangely entertaining. The many strange aspects of the movie are hit and miss, but they hit more then they miss. The overall effect is one of an entertaining, and surprisingly original summer adventure.
Armie Hammer and Johnny Depp both do a good job with their characters. Armie Hammer is especially fun to watch, this probably won’t be his breakthrough role (with a 25% on Rotten …
