THE Wild West is becoming wilder, and the lawmen are finding it difficult to do their job. In comes a masked man in The Lone Ranger and the law finally has its say, by the time the movie ends! But not before you find yourself down with laughter, brainless fight sequences and heroic stunts that saw the devilish plots of bad guys go down the drain!
The Lone Ranger is the story of a lawyer John Reid (Armie Hammer) who finds himself at the wrong place at the wrong time. After an escaped outlaw Butch Cavendish (William Fichtner) kills his elder brother Dan (James Badge Dale), and leaves him for the dead, the lawyer becomes an outlaw with the help of Tonto (Johnny Depp), and tries to do what he believes is right! The problem is that on the way back towards the living, John learns that Tonto is not a normal person (read cuckoo, since he wears a dead crow on his head!) and that the person he believes is the good guy, need not be on the right side of the law!
The film once again brings back director Gore Verbinski (The Pirates of the Caribbean) and Johnny Depp who is as clumsy as Tonto, as he was as Jack Sparrow. Kids would love his dialogue delivery since all he does is speak from his heart, and most of the time he speaks nonsense. In one of the scenes, he is asked to save the train, and he replies with “I jump, you jump” and when he is reminded that there are people on the train, instead of showing remorse, he says, “People jump!”
In the fight sequence at the very end, it is Tonto who does unthinkable stunts just like Jack Sparrow did in The Pirates of the Caribbean franchise. His one-liners are the crowd pullers here and if you are a kid, you are bound to laugh out when he delivers them, in his usual dead-pan style!
The Lone Ranger may not be the best cowboy Western of all times, but it certainly is one of the most entertaining ones produced in Hollywood recently. In the era of superhero flicks, watching an age-old cowboy ride into the sunset is a treat to the sore eyes, and this film provides you with that. Hi yo Silver … away!
