The Lone Ranger (2013)
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.
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
Cast
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Johnny Depp
Tonto -
Armie Hammer
John Reid/The Lone R... -
William Fichtner
Butch Cavendish -
Tom Wilkinson
Cole -
Ruth Wilson
Rebecca Reid -
Helena Bonham Carter
Red Harrington -
James Badge Dale
Dan Reid -
Bryant Prince
Danny -
Barry Pepper
Fuller -
Mason Cook
Will -
JD Cullum
Wendell -
Saginaw Grant
Chief Big Bear -
Harry Treadaway
Frank -
James Frain
Barret -
Joaquín Cosio
Jesus -
Damon Herriman
Ray -
Matt O'Leary
Skinny -
W. Earl Brown
Mustached Ranger -
Timothy V. Murphy
Fritz -
Gil Birmingham
Red Knee -
Damon Carney
Blaine -
Kevin Wiggins
Clayton -
Chad Brummett
Martin -
Robert Baker
Navarro -
Lew Temple
Hollis -
Joseph E. Foy
Boy Tonto -
Leon Rippy
Collins -
Stephen Root
Habberman -
Randy Oglesby
Shareholder -
Brad Greenquist
Shareholder -
Rance Howard
Engineer -
Leonard Earl Howze
Homer -
Travis Hammer
Young Cavendish -
Steve Corona
Young Cole -
Matt Page
Soldier #3 -
Jack Axelrod
Telegraph Operator -
Christopher Hagen
Preacher -
Freda Foh Shen
Kai -
Margaret Bowman
Fat Lady -
Luz P. Mendez
Pilar -
Laina Loucks
Rosalie -
Devon J. Adams
Dancer (Red's) -
Desirae Anslover
Dancer (Red's) -
Charlotte Cormier
Dancer (Red's) -
Megan Pribyl
Dancer (Red's) -
Briana VanSchuyver
Dancer (Red's) -
Julie Stracener
Dancer (Red's) -
Chad Randall
Pawing Drunk -
Jason R. Lone Hill
Mob Member -
Todd Anderson
Mob Member -
Beth Bailey
Mob Member -
Joanne Camp
Glenda -
John Keating
Young Crier (Hell on... -
Stephen Brodie
Soldier #1 -
Will Koberg
Soldier #2 -
Jack Chang
Huang -
Tad Jones
VP Colfax -
Robin McGee
Old Crier -
Bob Rumnock
Stove Pipe -
Grover Coulson
Joe -
Tait Fletcher
Grizzled Soldier -
Alex Knight
Soldier #4 -
Argos Maccallum
Farmer -
David Midthunder
Fuller's Native Amer... -
Allison Volk
Jane -
Pokey Lafarge
Band at Red's -
Joseph Glynn
Band at Red's -
Adam Hoskins
Band at Red's -
Ryan Koenig
Band at Red's -
Tom E. Rostkowski
Man Who Congratulate... -
Malachi Tsoodle-Nels...
Red Knee's Young War... -
Sean Durham
Calvalry Guard -
Anthony R. Burt
Calvalry -
R.J. Kirkhope
Calvalry -
Will Kirkhope
Calvalry -
Kenneth Love
Calvalry -
Larfarge, Pokey and ...
Band at Red's -
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All Critics (215) | Top Critics (40) | Fresh (65) | Rotten (148)
Frustrating, lazy and lifeless.
Top CriticYour expectations of how bad The Lone Ranger is can't trump the reality.
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.
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.
Who, exactly, was this bipolar oater made for?
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.
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.
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
Has its moments, but at 2 1/2 hours, movie tries to do far too much
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!"
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
It's at times the most exciting live action film for years.
It's no sort of masterpiece. But The Lone Ranger is a good deal less dreadful than advance word has suggested.
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.
Sporadically entertaining, frequently confounding and nothing less than spectacularly ill-conceived.
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.
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.
Verbinski clearly knows how to stage action, with outstanding train-based set-pieces bracketing the film.
An enjoyable Western adventure enlivened by strong performances, stunning location work and some exciting action set-pieces ...
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.
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.
It's perhaps no coincidence that the film ends up on a runaway locomotive as this feels like a train wreck throughout.
Audience Reviews for The Lone Ranger
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- Red Harrington: What's with the mask?
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- The Lone Ranger: Do you know what Tonto means in Spanish?
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- Mob Member: He was gonna violate me with a duck foot!
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- Dan Reid: What's your crime boy?
- Tonto: Indian!
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- 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.
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- Tonto: From the Great Beyond a vision told me a great warrior would help me on my quest.
Discussion Forum
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| Guess the tomatometer | 37 days ago | 197 |
| Epic Win or Epic Fail? | 2 days ago | 178 |
| Sequel plans already? | 3 days ago | 91 |
| I've got a bad feeling. | 2 months ago | 62 |
| Favorite Johnny Depp performances | 48 days ago | 41 |
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