
In the 1930s, an elderly Tonto tells a young boy the tale of John Reid, the Lone Ranger. An idealistic lawyer, he rides with his brother and fellow Texas Rangers in pursuit of the notorious Butch Cavendish. Ambushed by the outlaw and left for dead, John Reid is rescued by the renegade Comanche, Tonto, at the insistence of a mysterious white horse and offers to help him to bring Cavendish to justice. Becoming a reluctant masked rider with a seemingly incomprehensible partner, ... (Full plot summary below)
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In the 1930s, an elderly Tonto tells a young boy the tale of John Reid, the Lone Ranger. An idealistic lawyer, he rides with his brother and fellow Texas Rangers in pursuit of the notorious Butch Cavendish. Ambushed by the outlaw and left for dead, John Reid is rescued by the renegade Comanche, Tonto, at the insistence of a mysterious white horse and offers to help him to bring Cavendish to justice. Becoming a reluctant masked rider with a seemingly incomprehensible partner, Reid pursues the criminal against all obstacles. However, John and Tonto learn that Cavendish is only part of a far greater injustice and the pair must fight it in an adventure that would make them a legend.
Leave your thoughts about The Lone Ranger.
| Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)Ken HankeA film that is at once divinely silly, surprisingly deep and deceptively complex. |
| Family Home TheaterJames PlathWhile there is much good to say about this outrageous reboot of The Lone Ranger, there are also flaws that keep it from being totally successful, starting with a frame story that just doesn't make sense. |
| Spectrum (St. George, Utah)Bruce BennettParticularly repulsive to many Lone Ranger fans may be the way the script, in the film's overly long second half, appears to denigrate American history. |
| ABC Radio BrisbaneMatthew ToomeyThe Lone Ranger is a film that doesn't know what it wants to be. |
| BeliefnetNell MinowEach decade gets the western it deserves. For our time we get the very essence of soulless corporate excess and celebrity self-regard. |
| Film Geek CentralAustin KennedyIt begins and ends with a bang. Too bad the fuse fizzled out somewhere in the middle.This could have been the best film of the summer with some simple tinkering. But as it stands, it's just an okay movie with some spectacular action. |
| RogerEbert.comMatt Zoller SeitzFor all its miscalculations, this is a personal picture, violent and sweet, clever and goofy. It's as obsessive and overbearing as Steven Spielberg's "1941" — and, I'll bet, as likely to be re-evaluated twenty years from now, and described as "misunderstood." |
| New York TimesA.O. ScottA very long, very busy movie that will unite the generations in bafflement, stupefaction and occasional delight. |
| Christian Science MonitorPeter RainerHammer plays the Lone Ranger as a clueless, stolid square, and the resulting contrast with Depp’s cartoonishness isn’t odd-couple funny, just blah. |
| Blu-ray.comBrian OrndorfIt's noisy, intentionally ugly, and excruciatingly long (clocking in at 150 minutes). Serious hi-ho is missing from this leaden endeavor. |