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<big><big>The Lone Ranger</big></big> i'll try to avoid it, but may contain spoilers
Before the movie :
I've never been a fan of western movies, except Wild Wide West, True Grit and Django Unchained i couldn't name another western i enjoyed, i just don't empathize with the characters. To me it's an old and dusty kind of movies with the bad guy stereotype (unshaved, having a black hat, riding a black horse) facing the good guy stereotype (nice guy but a little rough, white hat, white horse) during a duel in an empty street with all the inhabitants watching it from behind their window i know to some people it's a shame to not consider "The good, the bad and the ugly" a good movie or any other western from the same era but opinions are like assholes, so i've gto mine. I remember the Italian Western Spaghetti kind too, with Terrance Hill and Bud Spencer which i didn't like either, not my kind of humor.
So when i first heard about The Lone Ranger and saw all the propaganda around it i was like "WTF are they thinking ?" and then i looked into the casting and saw Depp and Bonham Carter and i love the duo they formed in previous movies so i got more interested and decided to go watch it.
Movie Plot :
The movie begins with a kid dressed as the Lone Ranger going to an exposition, there he meets Tonto(Johnny Depp), an old Comanche who will count him the story of The Lone Ranger.
More than 60 years before, John Reid (Armie Hammer) goes back home in a train who is also carrying two prisoners, Tonto and Butch Cavendish (William Fichtner) who will be hang in town. Cavendish's band comes and helps him to escape. Once in town, Tonto is jailed, Dan Reid is a Texas Ranger, he makes his brother one too and with six other men they go after Cavendish and his gang. This leads them into a canyon where they are ambushed and shot because of a traitor among them, Cavendish comes and eats Dan's heart in front of his brother who is passing out.
Tonto, who escaped from jail, comes to the canyon and buries the deceased, however the Horse Spirit awakens John, making him a spirit walker, a man who can't be killed.
John will seek justice for his fallen brother and hunt Cavendish and his crew as a masked man known as The Lone Ranger, while Tonto will stand by his side as he considers Cavendish a bad spirit, a wendigo, and seems to have a vendetta against him.
My impressions :
+ Johnny Depp is really carrying the movie
+ The funny interaction between the stereotypical Indian who is talking about spirit and magic while the Ranger is like "WTF is he talking about ?"
+ The Lone Ranger has this good guy thing to "bring justice and not vengance" thing which is kind of boring but Tonto is toning it down
+ Some weird things that just happen and make you laugh because they weren't expected
+ The story of Tonto is touching, not very original but it brings some kindness to this funny character and makes him more than a simple joke.
- The movie is " The Lone Ranger" not "Tonto the Comanche", Hammer is good but i don't think he is enough known to be the face of a movie where Depp is supposed to play a "side character" (still important character but you see what i mean)
- Bad guy stereotype
- The stereotype of the Indian, speaking about Horse Spirit, Bird Spirit, Bad Spirit,etc...is maybe pushed too far sometimes
- The love story, two brothers loving the same woman, she is with the rough one and wish to be with the smart one and....i couldn't care less about that sh*t
- Not enough Bonham Carter on screen
- Too many weird things, some people will just think it's dumb and too much sometimes
To conclude, i've read many americans critics shitting on this movie, one of them was like "Bah, that's just Pirates of the Carribean in the Far West", it's easy to say as Depp is portraying a weird character doing weird moves and saying weird things and in a way it's not completely wrong, but it would be like the first PoC (the best one) not the 4th boring movie.
I really enjoyed the movie, it's not flawless, it's not the movie of the year but there was no reason to put it down, it's funny and that's the goal of the movie.
The action scenes are up to date and fit the actual movie industry (not the 20 mns staring for a duel thing) and they still kept some bases from the cowboy like a lasso scene or a scene that featured what i'd refer to the Western song (don't know the name of it, sorry) which i remember hearing in movies when i was a kid and my dad watched Westerns.
Don't listen to the awful critics and enjoy this movie with some friends.
<big><big>7/10</big></big>
Thinking about going to see Elysium in the next days/weeks so expect a new Review soon.
Before the movie :
I've never been a fan of western movies, except Wild Wide West, True Grit and Django Unchained i couldn't name another western i enjoyed, i just don't empathize with the characters. To me it's an old and dusty kind of movies with the bad guy stereotype (unshaved, having a black hat, riding a black horse) facing the good guy stereotype (nice guy but a little rough, white hat, white horse) during a duel in an empty street with all the inhabitants watching it from behind their window i know to some people it's a shame to not consider "The good, the bad and the ugly" a good movie or any other western from the same era but opinions are like assholes, so i've gto mine. I remember the Italian Western Spaghetti kind too, with Terrance Hill and Bud Spencer which i didn't like either, not my kind of humor.
So when i first heard about The Lone Ranger and saw all the propaganda around it i was like "WTF are they thinking ?" and then i looked into the casting and saw Depp and Bonham Carter and i love the duo they formed in previous movies so i got more interested and decided to go watch it.
Movie Plot :
The movie begins with a kid dressed as the Lone Ranger going to an exposition, there he meets Tonto(Johnny Depp), an old Comanche who will count him the story of The Lone Ranger.
More than 60 years before, John Reid (Armie Hammer) goes back home in a train who is also carrying two prisoners, Tonto and Butch Cavendish (William Fichtner) who will be hang in town. Cavendish's band comes and helps him to escape. Once in town, Tonto is jailed, Dan Reid is a Texas Ranger, he makes his brother one too and with six other men they go after Cavendish and his gang. This leads them into a canyon where they are ambushed and shot because of a traitor among them, Cavendish comes and eats Dan's heart in front of his brother who is passing out.
Tonto, who escaped from jail, comes to the canyon and buries the deceased, however the Horse Spirit awakens John, making him a spirit walker, a man who can't be killed.
John will seek justice for his fallen brother and hunt Cavendish and his crew as a masked man known as The Lone Ranger, while Tonto will stand by his side as he considers Cavendish a bad spirit, a wendigo, and seems to have a vendetta against him.
My impressions :
+ Johnny Depp is really carrying the movie
+ The funny interaction between the stereotypical Indian who is talking about spirit and magic while the Ranger is like "WTF is he talking about ?"
+ The Lone Ranger has this good guy thing to "bring justice and not vengance" thing which is kind of boring but Tonto is toning it down
+ Some weird things that just happen and make you laugh because they weren't expected
+ The story of Tonto is touching, not very original but it brings some kindness to this funny character and makes him more than a simple joke.
- The movie is " The Lone Ranger" not "Tonto the Comanche", Hammer is good but i don't think he is enough known to be the face of a movie where Depp is supposed to play a "side character" (still important character but you see what i mean)
- Bad guy stereotype
- The stereotype of the Indian, speaking about Horse Spirit, Bird Spirit, Bad Spirit,etc...is maybe pushed too far sometimes
- The love story, two brothers loving the same woman, she is with the rough one and wish to be with the smart one and....i couldn't care less about that sh*t
- Not enough Bonham Carter on screen
- Too many weird things, some people will just think it's dumb and too much sometimes
To conclude, i've read many americans critics shitting on this movie, one of them was like "Bah, that's just Pirates of the Carribean in the Far West", it's easy to say as Depp is portraying a weird character doing weird moves and saying weird things and in a way it's not completely wrong, but it would be like the first PoC (the best one) not the 4th boring movie.
I really enjoyed the movie, it's not flawless, it's not the movie of the year but there was no reason to put it down, it's funny and that's the goal of the movie.
The action scenes are up to date and fit the actual movie industry (not the 20 mns staring for a duel thing) and they still kept some bases from the cowboy like a lasso scene or a scene that featured what i'd refer to the Western song (don't know the name of it, sorry) which i remember hearing in movies when i was a kid and my dad watched Westerns.
Don't listen to the awful critics and enjoy this movie with some friends.
<big><big>7/10</big></big>
Thinking about going to see Elysium in the next days/weeks so expect a new Review soon.