Review: ‘The Lone Ranger’ is a good Verbinski film, perhaps not as good a Western

Posted on July 12, 2013

After the success of “Rango,” which is actually the fourth highest grossing Western of all time, it’s not terribly surprising director Gore Verbinski decided to stay in the genre, re-teaming with Bruckheimer and Depp for a remake of the classic Western hero, “The Lone Ranger.”

Although Western purists and most old-school “Lone Ranger” fans will probably give a resounding “no,” Verbinski’s “The Lone Ranger” delivers pretty much what I would expect from one of his movies, the aforementioned madcap action on a grand scale. It perhaps plays a little too true to form with Depp playing an rather insane version of Tonto, greedy villains looking for buried treasure (in this case, silver rather than gold) and a bevy of background characters and settings bordering on the macabre.

“The Lone Ranger” is definitely not for everyone, but fans of the “Pirates” movies looking for something a bit different yet familiar might want to check this one out.

The movie is rated PG-13 for sequences of intense action and violence, and some suggestive material.

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