Lone Ranger (2013)

 Native American warrior Tonto recounts the untold tales that transformed John Reid, a man of the law, into a legend of justice.

Production year: 2013

Country: USA
 
Cert (UK): 12A
 
Runtime: 149 mins
 
Directors: Gore Verbinski
 
Cast: Armie Hammer, Helena Bonham Carter, Johnny Depp, Ruth Wilson, Tom Wilkinson, William Fichtner

Story:

In 1933 San Francisco, with the Golden Gate bridge magnificently incomplete in the background, a little boy wearing a white Stetson and a black domino mask enters a museum about the American west, passing dioramas about the great buffalo and the mighty grizzly bear before stopping before "The Noble Savage in His Natural Habitat". He's an ancient Native American, his face covered in cracked war paint. Suddenly his eyes swivel and transfix the little boy. It's Tonto, a Comanche brave, and in flashback he unfolds his story and his first meetings with John Reid on a Texas train that's taking a notorious outlaw, the sadistic, cannibalistic, hare-lipped Butch Cavendish (William Fichtner), to be hanged.
What ensues is a violent, action-packed film that draws on and refers to numerous westerns but mainly Sergio Leone's Once Upon a Time in the West. Here, a railroad tycoon (Tom Wilkinson) in league with a ruthless outlaw is buying up the land that will link the nation coast to coast by rail and control the water supply. Leone's film also has a subplot about a search for vengeance on behalf of persecuted minorities, and on top of this The Lone Ranger piles the extermination of the Indians, the stealing of mineral resources, the corruption of the law and the subversion of the military. In this it resembles the indictment of unreconstructed capitalism that Michael Cimino proposed in Heaven's Gate.

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Movie Rating (max. 5 Stars):

Summary:

One of the best movies I have seen in this year. Johnny Depp as his best. Crazy and funny, like in Pirates of the Caribean, but I thing much better. 

Box Office:

Domestic Total as of Aug. 18, 2013:$87,700,000
Distributor: Buena Vista	Release Date: July 3, 2013
Genre: Western	Runtime: 2 hrs. 29 min.
MPAA Rating: PG-13	Production Budget: $215 million

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