Movie Reviews: "The Lone Ranger"

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Movie Reviews: The Lone Ranger


Well, it wasn't exactly like returning to those thrilling days of yesteryear for most critics viewing the latest version of The Lone Ranger -- this one starring Johnny Depp, not as the legendary masked man but as his sidekick Tonto.

Several reviewers go to great length to point out that it's not what you might expect it to be -- a family film.





Mick LaSalle in the San Francisco Chronicle writes:

"It's a movie for the whole family to avoid -- 2 1/2 of the longest hours on record, a jumbled botch that is so confused in its purpose and so charmless in its effect that it must be seen to be believed, but better yet, no. Don't see it."





Michael Phillips in the Chicago Tribune notes that at one point the masked man gets his head dragged through horse manure.

"Watching The Lone Ranger, you know the feeling."





Lou Lumenick in the New York Post remarks:

"It pours on untold Disney millions in special effects and stunt work in what blurs into one visual non sequitur that tries to bludgeon you into submission."





John Reid of the Colorado Springs Gazette asks:

"By the time the movie careened into its third hour I was begging for mercy. 'How could this be worse?'"





Rafer Guzma¡n in Newsday chalks it all up to over-ambition.

"The Lone Ranger succeeds on all counts -- perhaps too well. The movie is so imaginative so brimming with ideas that it can't quite decide what to be."

-IMDB News

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http://whatculture.com/film/10-thing...anger-flop.php

Proof that there is some justice in Hollywood, Johnny Depp’s latest big-budget star vehicle, The Lone Ranger, is set to become one of the biggest box office bombs in recent years, joining last year’s likes of Battleship and John Carter as a testament to the fact that sometimes there are consequences to scarcely-veiled creative bankruptcy.

Scoring negatively with critics as well as audiences – scraping 25% on Rotten Tomatoes – there has been much discussion this week regarding what this says about audience trends, Johnny Depp’s career, and big-budget filmmaking in general.

What’s clear above all else is that Hollywood can evidently learn something from the colossal failure of The Lone Ranger. Whether they will or not is another question altogether, but here’s a few points to nudge them in the right direction…

Read more at http://whatculture.com/film/10-thing...Sh9M2HXqW6x.99