Every 15 minutes or so we cut back to this nonsense in order for Tonto to tell us what just happened in the previous 15 minutes, just in case you had popped to the toilets for a line of coke to keep yourself awake. The narrative device of an ancient Tonto relating his exploits to a wide-eyed kid, is a bizarre and pointless gimmick that just pads the already butt-punishing 149 minute running time.
That's true again here and I'd much rather have followed his character rather than the two buffoons we're saddled with (pun intended).
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It feels like Badge Dale has been in every other movie this summer and he's often been the highlight of said movies. The supporting cast are impressive Ficthner is suitably sleazy as the main villain, Pepper is great as always as a corrupt cavalry leader and the casting of Wilson, an actress who falls outside the usual waif archetype, is commendable. The film, to its credit, is shot on location and Monument Valley looks resplendent, particularly on a giant IMAX screen. If you cut out all their scenes, it would seem like a decent stab at a traditional western. There are more onscreen deaths here than the bloodiest of spaghetti westerns and the film has quite a dark tone when the two leads are absent. The Ranger and Tonto are portrayed as a pair of comic buffoons, presumably with the aim of entertaining a pre-teen audience, but when the pair are offscreen the film changes tone drastically, attempting to keep adults interested with a plethora of violence. Like several recent Hollywood tent-pole releases, the film is trying to capture the largest audience possible, resulting in a schizophrenic mess. As it is, 'The Lone Ranger' is far from a good movie. With that gripe off my chest, let it to be known that had this been a good movie, I would still have aired my issues with this aspect of the film.