But suddenly we’re on a train, where clean-cut prosecutor Reid ( Armie Hammer), flashing a copy of John Locke at the predominantly religious passengers, is delivering to justice notorious outlaw Butch Cavendish ( William Fichtner).
The answer never becomes clear, which encourages the view of just taking it all as a romp, although this isn’t entirely right either, given some of the serious underpinnings. What is Tonto telling the kid, a tall tale? A politically corrected version of the conquest of the West as the boy presumably understands it? A confessional about his own misdeeds that led to a very weird life? Just a wild story, the product of an addled mind? Looking more like a mummified Christopher Walken than like Depp himself, Tonto, backed by an Old West diorama, the leathery relic responds to the kid’s curiosity by jumping back to the day in 1869 when he met lawman John Reid.Īlthough Tonto’s sudden springing-to-life in a historical exhibit spurs some tentative initial laughs, Verbinski doesn’t sufficiently set the tone and rules of the game from the outset, the uncertainty over which ripples throughout the film to deleterious effect. No doubt cribbing from Arthur Penn‘s Little Big Man (1970), the yarn spun here is related by the surviving centenarian “noble savage” to a white boy in cowboy gear (mask included) in a San Francisco carnival tent in 1933 (nice backdrop here of the Golden Gate Bridge under construction, even if the project wasn’t as far along at this point in time). The title notwithstanding, the scenario for the new film, concocted by the Pirates team of Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio along with Justin Haythe, focuses principally upon Tonto (the Spanish meaning of which is joked about). PHOTOS: ‘Lone Ranger’ Premiere Brings Johnny Depp, Armie Hammer and the Wild West to Disneyland A previous try at a big-screen origins story, The Legend of the Lone Ranger, in 1981, was a total bust and the only film ever made by the actor who played the title character, Klinton Spilsbury.
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Without Depp’s willingness to trade in Captain Jack Sparrow’s eyeliner and bejeweled dreadlocks for Tonto’s cracked white face paint and dead crow headgear, no one would have been remotely interested in reviving this vintage radio standby, which clocked 2,956 episodes between 19, and boomer TV favorite, which ran from 1949 to 1957 and also spawned two feature films. There’s enough entertainment value in this vastly overlong extravaganza to put it over commercially, although whether it can reach Pirates levels of profitability and warrant three sequels is another matter.
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Floated conceptually and commercially by another eccentric comic characterization by Johnny Depp, this attempt by Verbinski and producer Jerry Bruckheimer to plant the flag for another Pirates of the Caribbean-scaled series tries to have it too many ways tonally, resulting in a work that wobbles and thrashes all over the place as it attempts to find the right groove.
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After proving himself a crack shot on his first pranky Western, the animated Rango, Gore Verbinski appears not to have had enough ammo left over to score as well with The Lone Ranger, a moderately amusing but very uneven revisionist adventure with franchise and theme park intentions written all over it.
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