He’s added weird new tics for Tonto, already a troublesome racial caricature. With this riotous reboot, they seem to be chasing modern moviegoers who prize action over storytelling and who also possess strong bladders - the 149-minute running time makes this almost enough for two movies.īut shouldn’t these Lone Ranger arrangers have decided whether they were doing send-up or serious? And shouldn’t they have called the film Tonto, since it’s really all about him?Īlmost every moment with Depp as Tonto is played for laughs, beginning with the Buster Keaton/Keith Richards moves he also brought to his continuing Pirates of the Caribbean franchise. That’s where we run into trouble, pardners, because I’m not sure exactly what actor/executive producer Depp is up to with his co-conspirators, director/producer Gore Verbinski and producer Jerry Bruckheimer. Your dear pappy and grandpappy, I trust, would not tolerate a wimpy Lone Ranger or a mugging Tonto.īut if this isn’t the Kemosabe and sidekick from some 80 years of radio, TV and movie legend, then who are these masked (and face-painted) men? And who, exactly, was this bipolar oater made for?
Given his rebel instincts, it may be beside the point to observe that Johnny Depp’s latest genre exercise is neither your father’s The Lone Ranger nor your grandfather’s. Starring Johnny Depp, Armie Hammer, Tom Wilkinson and Helena Bonham Carter.
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