Click here to copy URL

The Lone Ranger

2013

Gore Verbinski

Armie Hammer, Johnny Depp, Tom Wilkinson, William Fichtner ...

5.2

26,581

Adventure. Western. Action Native American warrior Tonto (Johnny Depp) recounts the untold tales that transformed John Reid (Armie Hammer), a man of the law, into a legend of justice-taking the audience on a runaway train of epic surprises and humorous friction as the two unlikely heroes must learn to work together and fight against greed and corruption... From producer Jerry Bruckheimer and director Gore Verbinski, the filmmaking team behind the blockbuster ... [+]

	Media	Author	Review
		Peter Debruge Variety	"Extravagant but exhausting... this over-the-top oater delivers all the energy and spectacle audiences have come to expect from a Jerry Bruckheimer production, but sucks out the fun in the process"
		Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"Here they're just putting 'Pirates of the Caribbean' in a saddle and pretending we won't notice (...) rating: ★ (out of 4)"
		A. O. Scott The New York Times	"A very long, very busy movie that will unite the generations in bafflement, stupefaction and occasional delight"
		Todd McCarthy The Hollywood Reporter	"This attempt for another Pirates of the Caribbean-scaled series tries to have it too many ways tonally, resulting in a work that wobbles and thrashes all over the place. (...) a moderately amusing but very uneven revisionist adventure"
		Tim Grierson Screendaily	"The film has plenty of combustion, but it's almost entirely devoid of charm or genuine excitement"
		Claudia Puig USA Today	"It's a 2 ½-hour slog, with tonal inconsistencies and monotonous, drawn-out action sequences. Scenes alternate between frenetic and tedious (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"
		Keith Uhlich Time Out	"It's all too much and not enough (...) those action scenes: Monotonous, loud and relentless, they're a punishing example of the self-satisfied, digitally augmented ephemera that typifies modern Hollywood moviemaking (...) rating: ★★ (out of 5)"
		Richard Roeper Chicago Sun-Times	"A bloated, unfunny, sometimes downright bizarre train wreck featuring some of the loudest, longest and least entertaining actual train wrecks in recent memory"
		Michael Phillips Chicago Tribune	"The evidence suggests a combination of hubris, errant revisionism, a misguided and perverse degree of violence, and a script that never worked in the first place, the second draft, or in any of the rewrites (...) Rating: ★ (out of four)"
		Lou Lumenick New York Post	"The sad truth is these durable 80-year-old characters (...) never even come to life in this bloated, misshapen mess, a stillborn franchise loaded with metaphors for its feeble attempts to amuse, excite and entertain (...) Rating: ★ (out of four)"
		Mick LaSalle SFGATE	"A jumbled botch that is so confused in its purpose and so charmless in its effect that it must be seen to be believed, but better yet, no"

Return to movie

We encourage you to check the reviews' original sources. Intellectual property rights of these reviews belong to their authors and/or the correspondent media from which they have been extracted. If you'd like to help us to add more reviews to your favorite movies, just send us a message.

The Lone Ranger

User history