Tonto is a prisoner alongside Butch Cavendish (a barely recognizable William Fichtner), who viewers will soon learn is one of the major 'baddies' of the film.

Tonto begins to tell the story of The Lone Ranger to the child, beginning in Colby, Texas, in 1869. The movie doesn't open in the Old West, but instead in 1933 San Francisco, where a young boy (dressed in a cowboy costume and mask) at a carnival makes his way into an Old West exhibit, where he comes upon a statue of 'The Noble Savage' that doesn't turn out to be a statue at all, but rather an elderly Tonto (Johnny Depp). 'The Lone Ranger' isn't without some flaws, but the good here far outweighs the bad. It goes without saying that I was shocked when I found myself liking what was transpiring, and checked myself for a fever when the end credits rolled and I had all but fallen in semi-love with the movie. Given the box office failure of the film (although thanks to foreign receipts and, now, home video, it might actually turn a profit) and the drubbing it got my almost all of our nationally known critics, I thought I might have a fun time picking apart the flaws of the movie in my review. I may have to don a mask myself when the feedback for this review starts rolling in, as 'The Lone Ranger' – a movie I fully expected to hate given my historical dislike of Johnny Depp's 'quirky character' movies – turned out to be perhaps my favorite of this year's summer movies that I've had the chance to see.

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