OK, it's overlong (so what film isn't these days!) and the script needs tweaking & made more concise n logical (ditto) but to be such a major US flop?! Unfair, it's an old-fashioned cowboy romp but with the cavalry and big business as the bad guys - which is pretty much a reflection of our political times, and hardly unfair in terms of native american treatment. Preference would have been to have made Johnny Depp half-caste to avoid cringe-worthy allegations, but it's well-made, fun, and the cast are all perfectly fine.

 

So, in comparison to the teen trite tedious awfulness of Percy Jackson which I saw yesterday (the only good thing about is Nathan Fillion's cameo and his dialogue seems lightyears ahead of the rest of the film, with winking in-jokes about firefly, so much so i wonder if he got to write his own dialogue!) The effects are good, but then aren't they always these days, it's expected...

I want to see The Lone Ranger but for some reason the movie is aimed for younger viewers, so I didn't care much of it.

 

I want to see 2Guns.

Wasn't 'Lone Ranger' unfortunate to be released in the US as thr heatwave was at it's peak? That would most certainly have played a massive factor in it's success.

Wasn't 'Lone Ranger' unfortunate to be released in the US as thr heatwave was at it's peak? That would most certainly have played a massive factor in it's success.

 

That might explain why land of the cowboy didnt go for it....or maybe young audiences dont have the same affection for the genre as older - westerns were EVERYWHERE well into the 80's.