A Short Cut Movie Review is normally less than 400 words, but in some cases may go slightly over. This is my attempt to keep writing about as many films as I see without getting bogged down with trying to find more to say. They are meant to be brief snapshots of my reaction to a movie without too much depth.
Not nearly as bad as I was expecting (not to be mistaken
for an endorsement) was Gore Verbinski’s The
Lone Ranger. I was expecting Pirates
of the Caribbean: At World’s End levels of awfulness, but it rose to the
middling heights of The Curse of the
Black Pearl. It does most of what you’d expect from an update of a classic
TV and radio show beloved by the Boomers. It throws in lots of big action set
pieces, impossible stunts, a poop joke, and a lame attempt at making it seem less
exploitative of American Indians, but as long as it’s got Johnny Depp running
around in a ridiculous getup and makeup acting all Looney Toons, it’s sort of
undermining itself.
