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| Year of first release: 2013 | |
| Director: Gore Verbinski | |
| Actors: Armie Hammer, Johnny Depp, William Fichtner, Tom Wilkinson | |
| Country: USA | |
| Genre: Western | |
| Conditions of visioning: 22.08.2013, Cinemaxx | |
| Synopsis: Native American warrior Tonto recounts the untold tales that transformed John Reid, a man of the law, into a legend of justice. | |
| Review: After a long period with rare Westerns and the few ones trying to change the style of the Western into drama, The Lone Ranger shows the come-back of the traditional Western. The scenery is not traditional, as you have strange characters like Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter and action scenes shot like in a modern action movie. The basement of the Western is there, bad guys, good guys, prostitutes, banks and saloons. Sometimes the scenery reminds classic Westerns like Once upon a time in the West. As I did not know at all The lone ranger comic strip, I have been completely surprised by the way the story evolves. And the characters are depicted very fast, so that the viewer understands their reaction even if the character is quite new, like Tom Wilkinson and Helena Bonham Carter. Armie Hammer looks very naive for the role, but maybe it was the intention, to show that anybody can change his life out of a critical situation, even the person no one believed in. I had a real good time watching a good Western. My rating may be pumped up because it is a genre that I like and missed so long in the movie theaters... |
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Rating: 8 /10
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Friday, August 30, 2013
Lone ranger (2013)
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I have watched this movie on 25.01.2014 in SD VOD on my Home cinema. I didn't have a good feeling about it so I didn't want to buy the Blu-ray. The movie is quite a paradox: it is a Disney movie although a western, sold like a big Action show (just look at the trailer) but it is in fact trying to be a real western and it is very bloody and trash. I have rarely seen a movie spending so much time showing gruesome dead bodies.
ReplyDeleteIt is indeed nice to see a Western with all the traditional elements you have listed, but I would rather recommend True Grit (old and new) or 800 Balas. I found that the nice Western elements were spoiled by the odd characters (Johnny Depp halfway beetween Dead Man and Pirates of the Caribbean) and the impossible action sequences. I am not talking about the "nature out of balance"-thing, actually bringing some poetry and fantasy to the story, but about the stunts by Depp and Hammer.
For me the movie is hesitating too much between several genres to be really good in any. My rating: 5/10.