Yeah. I actually decided to see this movie with my friend Blaine...let's just get this over with.
Plot: Lawyer John Reid comes back home to Colby, Texas to visit his older brother who is a Texas Ranger. His brother convinces him to join in arresting outlaw Butch Cavendish so he can be hanged, but the Rangers get ambushed killing all them including his brother. But then an Indian named Tanto finds Reid revived by white spirit horse and convinces him to take part in defeating Butch using a mask and taking the name The Lone Ranger.
Okay, okay, you all know the real focus about this movie: Johnny Depp. So let's just start with talking about him. Now as some of you might've read in my review for Dark Shadows back when that was in theaters, I basically summed up the current problem about Depp these days in the words of one critic "How is it possible that a man who just a few years ago stood as one of our most exciting and unconventional actors has now become one of the most predictable?" -Matt Burnson. I say this because he was once an actor that was a very remarkable and unique inspiration to actors everywhere, even to me at times back when I use to want to make a career in acting. But now he's become nothing more then just different versions of Jack Sparrow. In this case, he's an "Indian" Jack Sparrow. Case Closed. He did actually make me chuckle a good amount of times, but that was it. And I know all about how that pissed people off. Almost everyone who expressed their disinterest to this movie basically because they were upset over how a white guy like Depp is playing Tonto, and not an actual Native American. Now I was to state two things if you guys are among those people who are offended or just pissed off over this thing. 1) It's my understanding that Johnny Depp is actually part Native American. So if that's the case, then this is not as dramatically a big of a deal as it seems even if it's probably still offensive. 2) To Depp's somewhat defense, what the heck makes you so sure that ANY Native American would have the nerve to consider playing a role like Tonto? Because we're talking about a character who was originally played by a white guy and was considered totally degrading to the Native American people. So Depp doesn't help, but for heaven sakes everyone, the character is practically a big insult to Native Americans from the moment it existed! That being said, I didn't care for Armie Hammer's Lone Ranger. He wasn't a terrible actor, but the character himself was just bland and not really interesting. And Helena Bonham Carter's character was there just to that Helena Bonham Carter could be in it. Finally, the action was okay, and the story was very predictable and cliche.
And that's my review for The Lone Ranger. It did to it's credit have some amusing jokes. But otherwise, it met my expectations of The Long Ranger being uninteresting, the action is nothing special, and sadly Johnny Depp was being just another predictable version of Jack Sparrow and clearly needs to take a break from acting and rethink things. If you're going to see it, I'd wait until you can rent it on DVD, but in either case, you're not really going to remember it at all.
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