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The Lone Ranger (2013)

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31

Average Rating: 4.9/10
Reviews Counted: 213
Fresh: 65 | Rotten: 148

Armie Hammer and Johnny Depp make for an appealing pair of leads, but they're not enough to make up for The Lone Ranger's bland script, bloated length, and blaring action overkill.

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Average Rating: 4.1/10
Critic Reviews: 39
Fresh: 4 | Rotten: 35

Armie Hammer and Johnny Depp make for an appealing pair of leads, but they're not enough to make up for The Lone Ranger's bland script, bloated length, and blaring action overkill.

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From producer Jerry Bruckheimer and director Gore Verbinski, the filmmaking team behind the blockbuster "Pirates of the Caribbean" franchise, comes Disney/ Jerry Bruckheimer Films' "The Lone Ranger," a thrilling adventure infused with action and humor, in which the famed masked hero is brought to life through new eyes. Native American spirit warrior Tonto (Johnny Depp) recounts the untold tales that transformed John Reid (Armie Hammer), a man of the law, into a legend of justice-taking the

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All Critics (215) | Top Critics (40) | Fresh (65) | Rotten (148)

Frustrating, lazy and lifeless.

August 6, 2013 Full Review Source: Time Out
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Your expectations of how bad The Lone Ranger is can't trump the reality.

July 8, 2013 Full Review Source: Rolling Stone
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Somewhere, around the hour-and-a-half mark, The Lone Ranger makes the fateful decision not to end. Worse, the movie keeps not-ending for another full hour.

July 3, 2013 Full Review Source: The Atlantic
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When it comes to mining boys' adventure stories, defaming pirates may be fair game, but stories about western justice and native Americans? Not so much.

July 3, 2013 Full Review Source: Globe and Mail
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Who, exactly, was this bipolar oater made for?

July 3, 2013 Full Review Source: Toronto Star
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Director Gore Verbinski has adopted the more-is-better approach he used in the Pirates of the Caribbean series, crowding the movie with so many extraneous characters and subplots that the film becomes an endurance test.

July 3, 2013 Full Review Source: Miami Herald
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A sense of joy in Verbinski's action runs through and energizes the entire film, and it's an ingratiating quality that should not be so easily and quickly dismissed.

October 1, 2013 Full Review Source: TheMovieReport.com
TheMovieReport.com

Depp has done the kooky, costumed character shtick so many times, it's no longer surprising to see him bury his index finger into the desert sand, then lick it

September 22, 2013 Full Review Source: Us Weekly
Us Weekly

Has its moments, but at 2 1/2 hours, movie tries to do far too much

August 30, 2013 Full Review Source: Movie Habit
Movie Habit

It's certainly not your ol' man's "Lone Ranger," Kemo Sabe, but there's still plenty of kicks and stunts to make you wanna shout, "Hi-O, Silver! Away!"

August 17, 2013 Full Review Source: Sun Newspapers of Cleveland
Sun Newspapers of Cleveland

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.

August 15, 2013 Full Review Source: UTV

The first genuinely characterful action blockbuster of the summer: both a big, beautifully realised throwback to Hollywood Boy's Own storytelling and an intelligent revision of Old West history.

August 12, 2013 Full Review Source: This is London
This is London

Yes, this $250million reboot is overlong, over indulgent and tonally uneven, but it's also stuffed full of deadpan comedy, breakneck thrills and breathtaking visual spectacle.

August 12, 2013 Full Review Source: Movie Talk
Movie Talk

Everything about this film screams excess, from the ludicrous two-and-a-half hour running time to the whopping scale of the action sequences to Johnny Depp's bizarro costume.

August 12, 2013 Full Review Source: Contactmusic.com
Contactmusic.com

If the movies have no ambition, nothing to say and no desire to tell new stories, should they continue? Jerry Bruckheimer, I await your answer.

August 9, 2013 Full Review Source: The Ooh Tray
The Ooh Tray

It's at times the most exciting live action film for years.

August 9, 2013 Full Review Source: Birmingham Mail
Birmingham Mail

It's no sort of masterpiece. But The Lone Ranger is a good deal less dreadful than advance word has suggested.

August 9, 2013 Full Review Source: Irish Times
Irish Times

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.

August 8, 2013 Full Review Source: Financial Times
Financial Times

Sporadically entertaining, frequently confounding and nothing less than spectacularly ill-conceived.

August 8, 2013 Full Review Source: Film4
Film4

Limp and lifeless, this overlong and undercooked would-be blockbuster cannot focus on either the hard-edged realities or the magical mysteries it toys with.

August 8, 2013 Full Review Source: Flick Filosopher
Flick Filosopher

Flying as high as an eagle or scampering across the tracks like a lizard, Verbinski's camerawork is off the-chain and the visual-effects are first class.

August 8, 2013 Full Review Source: Little White Lies
Little White Lies

Verbinski clearly knows how to stage action, with outstanding train-based set-pieces bracketing the film.

August 8, 2013 Full Review Source: Sky Movies
Sky Movies

An enjoyable Western adventure enlivened by strong performances, stunning location work and some exciting action set-pieces ...

August 8, 2013 Full Review Source: ViewLondon
ViewLondon

Verbinski has surely modified this film's running time using dastardly new temporal-distortion technology, so that each of its 149 minutes contains 250 seconds. The South American landmass peeled off from the western seaboard of Africa quicker than this.

August 8, 2013 Full Review Source: Guardian [UK]
Guardian [UK]

The Lone Ranger is a curio on a gigantic scale; a colossal, misunderstood mistake that will win you over with weird if only you'll let it.

August 7, 2013 Full Review Source: TheShiznit.co.uk
TheShiznit.co.uk

It's perhaps no coincidence that the film ends up on a runaway locomotive as this feels like a train wreck throughout.

August 7, 2013 Full Review Source: The List
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Audience Reviews for The Lone Ranger

Amusing story about the legend of the Lone Ranger. Good cast and interesting storyline.
October 6, 2013
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Having never seen the original Lone Ranger, it was nice to be introduced to the story. But WHY do directors think to be a "blockbuster", the movie needs to be more than 2 hours? The story drags and simple editing could have made this movie more enjoyable. I waited tables and to make money... we had to turn tables. This movie was too long and if it turned screens at theaters more often, MAYBE it would have done better at the box office.
June 9, 2013
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    1. Red Harrington: What's with the mask?
    – Submitted by Private U (42 days ago)
    1. The Lone Ranger: Do you know what Tonto means in Spanish?
    – Submitted by Roger A (50 days ago)
    1. Mob Member: He was gonna violate me with a duck foot!
    – Submitted by Badger J (58 days ago)
    1. Dan Reid: What's your crime boy?
    2. Tonto: Indian!
    – Submitted by Maher J (59 days ago)
    1. Tonto: Eight men rode into canyon? I dug seven graves. Horse says, you are spirit walker, a man who has been to the other side and returned, a man who cannot be killed in battle.
    – Submitted by joseph j (2 months ago)
    1. Tonto: From the Great Beyond a vision told me a great warrior would help me on my quest.
    – Submitted by joseph j (2 months ago)
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