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Sometimes it’s impossible to ignore the bad buzz, with Gore Verbinski saddling up to re-imagine the iconic western adventurer with The Lone Ranger already being hailed as the flop of 2013.
That’s a touch harsh given this is the year of After Earth, but put it this way â€" the movie cost an estimated $375million to make and market, meaning it must take twice as much to show a profit.
Frankly, you’ve more chance of meeting Jesus on the Piccadilly line. Mechanical, soulless and lacking in imagination, comparisons with last year’s turkey, John Carter, aren’t wide of the mark.
Johnny Depp is Tonto, a stoical Comanche who we meet on a train that’s carrying villain Butch (William Fichtner) to his execution in Texas.
Also aboard is lawyer John (Armie Hammer) who, when the train is hijacked and the prisoner escapes , dons a mask and joins the Native American warrior to seek justice. The film also stars Tom Wilkinson, Helena Bonham Carter and Harry Treadaway.
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There are action set pieces arriving every 10 minutes, and there’s fun to be had watching the Ranger’s horse leaping on to a moving train, a bridge exploding and dynamite detonating all over the place.
Western watchers may note that Verbinski is stealing/homaging pretty much every John Ford film. Thing is, each scene goes on for so long that exhaustion eventually replaces exhilaration and, with the movie clocking in at the two-and-a-half-hour mark, you may find yourself eyeing the cinema’s exit signs.
Depp and Verbinski have made a multi-billion-dollar killing collaborating on three of the Pirates Of The Caribbean movies â€" which, for me at least, ditched storyline and character development in favour of bombast. This one is little different.
* The Lone Ranger is out now - cert 12A, 149 mins
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