The Lone Ranger
Uh, we already
had a Jonah Hex or a Wild Wild West movie. Why do we need another
modern action western?
Now that I have
finally watched the movie all the way through, I can safely say that
the movie is highly flawed and uneven. There are some flourishes of
good things that work, however there is also a huge chunk of a
subplot taken out of the movie. The is a complete mess and some
things really don't make sense. There are so many issues with the
story that the entire thing is just an uneven shit-storm of a movie.
While I enjoy
long movies, this one really does feel overly long and drawn out. It
wants to be an epic western with an epic length. And, it really
hurts the movie a great deal. The other issues is the reasoning
behind even making a Lone Ranger movie in the first place. No one
was asking for a Lone Ranger movie, yet we got a major motion picture
with a major budget. And, the movie actually bombed in the lone run.
Johnny Depp,
while interesting, sort of takes away from the lead character, which
the movie is named after. And, there's no getting around it. Tonto
does get a bit of an interesting back story, however the loony nature
of the character is a bit tiresome for me. He's too much like Jack
Sparrow, way too much like Sparrow. Tonto is all over the marketing,
while the actual lead character is on the sidelines.
The Lone Ranger
is a boring character and it doesn't help that Armie
Hammer bring nothing to the role. He starts out as an one-note
character and ends being an one-note character. Hammer is so boring
that all the scenes are dragged down by his dullness. And, why is
the Lone Ranger a complete and utter joke to everyone? Why couldn't
they make him a stronger character?
The tone is all
over the place and it truly harms any good will that this movie has. The
story shift from frantic humor in its first and third acts, but has
same serious subject matter in the second too. We see Native Americans get slaughtered in
such a brutal manner that it is hard to swallow the more nonsensical
scenes that are to come in the third act.
I also hate the
heel-turn of one of the characters that happens toward the end of the
second act. I personally think the character would have been more
interesting if he realized he was being tricked and tried to redeem
himself after the big reveal of the true bad guy. Instead, we just
get the by the numbers heel-turn that you can see a mile away just as this
character first appears.
This the same
lazy writing we get with the two main villains. They're just generic
“fill in the blank” villains without much complexity. Heck, Nero
from Star Trek 2009 is a better bad guy than these two blokes/ One
has the trait of being really ugly and the other is clean cut and a
businessman.
There is a better that needed to be fleshed out. Whereas this script feels rushed and needed a few more passes with another script writer or doctor.
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