TheColonel1947

Here we are, July 2021, and I hadn't seen this until last night. What a pile of poo. A huge waste of talent. Hang your head in shame guys. For me, movies like this have to have at least some tenuous link to reality to make them enjoyable. This storyline is so far removed from reality to make it laughable and cringeworthy. That's the best part of three hours of my life I won't get back.

I hate to be down on a movie which essentially has a good heart but it is just awful. The plot and script are tired and hackneyed and the direction lacking in any spark whatsoever. The characters are cardboard cutouts and beyond the efforts of the cast to inject any life into them. All very predictable. Wait until it's on tv and save it for a rainy Sunday afternoon.

The movie is a mess. It doesn't know what it wants to be. Some scenes are extremely violent and then others have over-the-top comedy. There's no cohesion and a storyline that goes off piste way too often. Depp trivialises the Native American (God knows what their take is on this) whereas Jay Silverheels (the TV Tonto) was a campaigner for the rights of Native Americans in Hollywood. Some legacy. Armie Hammer could have been good but was directed to play the part as an incompetent fool, the opposite of Fran Striker's original. Incidentally, Striker - who created The Lone Ranger, doesn't even get a credit. It is sad when iconic heroes are trivialised. I'm amazed more Americans aren't up-in-arms. Anyway, it's no more than you should expect from the Disney Corporation, they sold their souls a long time ago.