Review of The Lone Ranger (1956) by Sam M — 16 Jun 2014

Monday, June 9, 2014.

(2013) The Lone Ranger.

ACTION WESTERN/ COMEDY.

Perhaps I've seen so many films, may have turned my experience into interpreting this film to be total crap. By watching this, was inspired by many films made before it which reuses some of the key storylines from "The Legend Of The Lone Ranger" and "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance", the train scene was similar to "The Legend Of Zorro", the lady that uses her leg as a gun was obviously from "Planet Terror", and "Django Unchained" etc...

It opens with a boy in a museum looking at what he thought was a statue of a Native American. And the next thing you know, it's an actual Native American coming to life starting to tell this curious child a story about the Lone Ranger. One would've thought that the story was going to be told different, but as it turned out, it's even more silly than what we used to seeing. The John Reid character played by Armie Hammer is shown as gullible, self-centered and clumsy, how can viewers be capable to feel sympathy to this hollow person. With the director attempting to make light of the entire situation, including when many good people are shot in cold blood. This movie is intentioned for the simple minded since viewers haven't learned anything more about the Lone Ranger than the movie started. I mean, throughout the entire movie, it's just one bad guy getting away after the next, until much of it is too late. Do we even get to see how the Lone Ranger get to shoot so well without practising even when he was studying to be a lawyer? And the answer is no. Or does the film even shows us why the Lone Ranger even uses silver bullets? And no, it doesn't even answer that either. There are also unethical, troubling scenes where Tonto saves The Lone Ranger's life, but wouldn't do the same at the same token. It's like the film refuses to acknowledge actual human behavior just because the makers assume that the paying audience isn't going to care, or that some are going to interpret those favors as just a whim. And then after the film was over, and throughout the entire time this curious little kid had been listening to a much older Tonto, I'm wondering, doesn't this kid have any parents worried about him.

1/2 a star out of 4.