Austin Lewis Contributing Writer

The Lone Ranger is one of Disney’s newest films to hit theaters this summer. It follows the origin tales of the original Lone Ranger show that ended in 1957. The movie was directed by Gore Verbinksi, known for being the director the extremely popular Pirates of the Caribbean movies. The movies also featured famous actors such as Armie Hammer who played the role of the Lone Ranger, Johnny Depp who played the role of Tonto, and William Fichtner who played as Butch Cavendish.

The movie starts off with a young boy dressed as the Lone Ranger at a carnival. He goes into a museum of the western frontier and begins to look at the exhibits. When he gets to the exhibit of a Native American he looks up at what he believes to be a statue of an aged Native American but is startled when the statue moves and explains that he is actually Tonto, the Lone Ranger’s partner. Tonto then begins to tell the child the story of the real Lone Ranger. The movie continues as Tonto’s story but there are momentary breaks back to the present for comedic effect and to tie together loose ends.

This movie is very well put together and has some well made action sequences but overall the movie doesn’t really reach it’s true potential. One of the major problems I noticed is that there very little to none character development for the main female character, Rebecca Reid, and this makes it feel like she is not very relevant to the story at all even though she is supposed to be one of the center points to the story. This movie has also been suffering in the box office because not a lot of people are interested in seeing this western tale revisited and this has lead to Disney taking a pretty big loss on sales. Overall I would recommend this movie because of the well-made action scenes and the classic tale of a western hero but I wouldn’t count on it becoming a hit.