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Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2001)

7.0 (7 Ratings) Rate It

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Named "Best Picture of the Year" by over 100 critics nationwide! Two master warriors (Chow Yun Fat...

Every Which Way But Loose (1978)

7.2 (5 Ratings) Rate It

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Superstar and Academy Award-winner Clint Eastwood (Unforgiven, Million Dollar Baby) plays a...

Raw is More: Vibrant Recipes Bursting with Goodness

Eccie Newton and Gini Newton

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This book is about making raw food striking and delicious. Raw food contains more water and fibre as...

Color Your Own Wall Art Botanicals: 25 Color-by-Number Designs

Adams Media

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Create gorgeous botanical art to transform any space! Bring 25 pieces of art to vibrant life with...

Awix (3310 KP) rated The Lone Ranger (2013) in Movies

Feb 12, 2021

The Lone Ranger (2013)

2013 | Action, Comedy, Fantasy, Western

6.0

(25 Ratings)

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Famous box-office bomb is, as usual, not actually as bad as all that, just absurdly overblown for what should really have mid-budget genre movie written all over it. Origin story for the famous pulp western character; what makes the film curious (and quite interesting) is the way that it tries to combine different styles and tones - pulp and revisionist western elements rub up against the same kind of offbeat comic fantasy Verbinski and Depp had more success with elsewhere. This doesn't really work, but it's an undeniably curious mix.

Still, curious only takes you so far, and this is unlikely to be a film that lingers in most peoples' memory, despite a decent cast and good production values. Earns another point for the last twenty minutes, which are a genuinely impressive piece of Hollywood blockbuster bombast and spectacle. The rest could be worse, but could certainly be better, too.