Review of The Lone Ranger (2013) by Evan F — 20 Feb 2014

This is a weird goddamn movie. It veers madly from silly and fun to intense and, honestly, kinda fucked up. What did I expect to see in a Lone Ranger movie. A dude on a white horse blasting away baddies while trumpets blare.

What did I not expect to see? William Fincher eating a man's heart raw after carving it from his chest. But you know what? That's what made me LOVE THE THE HELL OUT OF IT. Way darker in tone than you're expecting, The Lone Ranger throws everything at you at once and dares you to keep up.

At two and a half hours, the film's story has a ton of turns, a ton of characters, and a ton of things that it probably could do without, honestly, but whatever. If you can get into it, there's a lot worth seeing here.

There's definitely a "Pirates of the Carribean as a Western" vibe going on, for obvious reasons, but that's not a bad thing. It's funny, fun, creepy, intense, gross, thrilling, kind of meta-racist, and, in the end, largely entertaining.

Give it a go wit an open mind. You might be surprised.