Review of The Lone Ranger (1956) by David B — 24 Apr 2014

Gallops across our skulls for two and a half hours, pounding them into the same kind of desert as that on screen: a barren flatland with occasional rearing outcries of rock. Johnny Depp is amusing as Tonto and again proves he's the best character actor out there and Armie Hammer made the most of it playing as The Lone Ranger, it's just the film is far to long and loads of unnecessary scenes that doesn't make the film justice.

The problem is The Lone Ranger is a noisy, never-ending nonsensical mess, which easily tops the flops in the silly season of summer blockbusters. Last year, director Gore Verbinski made the Oscar winning animation Rango, this year, he's flogging a dead horse but it does make up with a fantastic final 3rd, with an amazing train chase of what you'd expect in a western, the special effects and stunts are brilliant and it's this that saves the film, just why they couldn't make the rest of the film entertaining is beyond me.

The film flopped and aside from the final parts, I can see why.