Wednesday, 3 July 2013

The Lone Ranger movie review: Nuffnang Premiere Screening



From the producer of Pirates of the Caribbean Jerry Bruckheimer & Academy Award-winning director Gore Verbinski (also the director of Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl), stars by Johnny Depp as Tonto, The Lone Ranger is definitely one of the film which I anticipate for since viewing its first release trailer few months back.


“The film starts in 1933 San Francisco, where a young boy named Will bumped into a seemingly comes to life archetypal Native American while attending a Wild West exhibition. The Native American reveals himself to be Tonto, spirit warrior of Comanche who was once ride on the land of wild-wild-west together with John Reid, The Lone Ranger, a legend of justice.

Shifting back to 1869, the story of begin with John Reid returning home on a rail train which finally en route to Colby, Texas. Unbeknownst to John the train is also carrying an apprehended Tonto and outlaw Butch Cavendish. Cavendish's gang hijacks the train, which results in Butch escaping and Tonto' arrest by John and his brother Dan, a Texas Ranger. They later on begin an expedition to hunt down Butch which fail as the group is ambushed by Cavendish's men. What thought to be the end of John’s life turn out to be a new beginning when he eventually saved by Tonto & taking on the path to be The Lone Ranger.”

Could be worse? 
As the production of filmmaking team behind the blockbuster "Pirates of the Caribbean", The Lone Ranger obviously doesn't quite live up to the expectation, the lengthy & rather plain script with an obvious inconsistency issue might be the main reason for that. With the mind set of leaving absolutely nothing out (probably a tradition from the Pirates of the Caribbean), the Verbinski-directed Western icon reboot tend to incorporate just a little bit too much into its storyline, which result in a nearly 2 ½ hours screening time, making the supposed to be tightly constructed action-adventure thriller turn out to be a flat unsustainable quest.  

This house is very 'different' XD
However, though there is a downfall in script, wonderful quality of images & the things that work are worth seeing, thrilling combustible action, climactic train sequence, nice infuse of humor & black-comedy banter, occasionally surprising twist (Tonto's sad backstory is my favorite), the underlying theme and vision- how the West was won back in the old days, innocent blood spilt by natives protecting their land.. All these makes The Lone Ranger a not so shabby blockbuster movie overall, perhaps some cuts would help make it even better. ^^
 Tics from Nuffnang, thnx :D
6.9/10~

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