
That's not to damn The Lone Ranger entirely it may have flopped disastrously, but I love a good origin-myth reboot movie, and Gore Verbinski has made a pretty good one. The kind of thing that makes me growl, "Too much film school, not enough living." There is homage, there is the affectionate nod, there is creative artistic theft, and then there is this: knowingly building a genre movie entirely from sequences hijacked from the classic movies of that genre.

The Lone Ranger is so heavily littered with the bleeding scalps of old Hollywood and spaghetti westerns that after about half an hour I started to think I wasn't watching a western at all, but a Frankenstein movie.

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