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Terrible acting, screenplay and direction.

Absolutely Brilliant!

It is both painfully honest and laugh-out-loud funny at the same time.

Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

The Warner Brothers Network struggled to reboot "The Lone Ranger" without success as a weekly series in this cable TV adaptation. "Child's Play 3"director Jack Bender and "Let The Devil Wear Black" scenarists Stacy Title and Jonathan Penner have taken lots of liberties with the original material. Not only have they changed the names of various protagonists and the antagonists, but also they have altered major plot incidents. The Texas setting remains intact, and Boston bred Luke Hartman (Chad Michael Murray of "House of Wax") arrives from the East to visit his brother, Harmon Hartman (Sebastian Spence of "Little Boy Blues"), who moonlights as a Texas Ranger. Notice that the hero's name has been changed from John Reid to Luke Hartman. When the regulators start raising hell with homeowners in the route of the railway, Harmon and his fellow Rangers saddle up for action. Naturally, Luke wants to accompany his big brother, but Harmon refuses to let him join them. Nevertheless, Luke rides after them despite his older brother's warnings. Harmon allows him to spend the night with them. The chief villain in The Lone Ranger origin story was Butch Cavendish, but here he is known as Kansas City Haas (Dylan Walsh of "Congo"), who seems friendly enough in the beginning. Instead of leading the Rangers into a cross-fire in a valley, double-crossing Kansas and his armed regulators massacre the Texas Rangers while they are encamped for the evening. Kansas and his gunmen are trying to run settlers off their property so they can sell it to the railroad. Kansas plugs both Hartmans, but Luke manages to survive the ordeal. After being tutored by Tonto (Nathaniel Arcand) and given a mask by Native American witch doctor Kulakinah ( Wesi Studi of "Heat"), Hartman makes his first appearance at night as the Masked Man and thwarts Kansas and his gunmen from running a black family off their property. Murray dons a black mask and straddles a white horse, but his outfit looks nothing like Clayton Moore. For the record, Hartman meets Tonto when he tries to defend Tonto' sister in town from a gang of horny gunslingers on his first day out west. Of course, this cannot compare with Clayton Moore's "Lone Ranger" movies and TV episodes, but it is a serious, straightforward narrative that occasionally incorporates some humor and sexuality. Meantime, the Indians don't want to help. The most interesting character again is a villain, and Dylan Walsh savors the role with enthusiasm. At one point, Tonto's sister Alope (Anita Brown of "A Guy Thing") sinks into a hot tub with him. The dialogue is sometimes profane but always memorable. The WB didn't slight this oater. The rough-hewn sets look sumptuous, and the production values are strong. The use of songs behind the violence isn't as effective. In this version, Luke is a natural born crack shot with a handgun. Keep in mind that the Lone Ranger is more of a teenager. He saves Tonto's life at one point. Not bad.

this was the best version of the lone ranger ever!wonderfully written and acted! i hope it becomes a series. my family and all my friends loved it!i like how they updated it. the music was cool. the outfits were great. anyone who didnt like it had to be blind. and anyone who would put down someone as sweet as chad has problems. everyone involved did a fantastic job! and, im not a teen, im 23. chad murray was a more sexy lone ranger, but he would be sexy in anthing. and, they needed to bring the western into 2003. nathaniel arcands fighting scenes were awesome too. it made me proud to have cherokee in my family. silver was beautiful, and, the forbidden love story of the ranger and tontos sister was exciting! if the wb dosent pick this up as a series, they must not care about how many viewers they have. they will be the ones missing out. think of all the money that could be made on pictures, videos, and merchandise of this show too. sunshine

Wow. There is nothing wrong with updating a classic and making it appeal to a younger, new audience but this was way too much. Too much talk, not nearly enough action, and the script! Those native-Americans had the best diction and vocabularies of any Indians I've ever seen on screen. The wardrobe was absurd also. The Lone Ranger looked more like a last-minute inviteeto a bad costume party. It was fine to change the clothes to darker colors than seen before but they didn't look very Western at all. Chad Murray was O.K. and could have really made a mark if this film had been more of a Western and a lot less of a grating, ill-conceived teens only show with a ridiculous sound- track. Ivy League native-Americans, 21st Century soundtrack, bad wardrobe, and way too much talk. No wonder this wasn't picked-up as a regular series by The WB. For that we can all be grateful.

Talk about a disaster. I'm not talking about the actors (who did a good job with what they had), I'm talking writing. The writers changed the origins of the Lone Ranger as though they had no idea what the "legend" was all about. Sure, you expect them to take some liberties, updating the story somewhat, these writers rewrote "history".First, they changed the lead character's "real" name from John Reid to Luke Hartman (The Lone Ranger, created by George W. Trendle and Fran Striker, also were responsible for The Green Hornet, and there was a link between the two programs. John Reid's nephew was supposedly the father of Britt Reid, who became the crime fighter Green Hornet - talk about changing the space/time continuum). In the original, John Reid had been one of a posse of six Texas Rangers tracking Butch Cavendish and his gang of desperados. In this remake, Luke Hartman did not really ride with a posse of, now, twelve Texas Rangers, he caught up with them to ride with his brother. In the original, the Rangers were lured into an ambush in a canyon, and five of them were slaughtered. In this version, the ambush of the Texas Rangers was cowardly; they were shot while they were bedded down for the night. In the original Butch Cavendish and his gang were the villains, this version, it was Kansas City Haas and his regulator gang. John Reid, in the original, was left for dead. But Reid managed to crawl to safety near a water hole, where he was found and nursed back to health by a friendly Indian named Tonto. This version, Luke Hartman was left for dead, but was found holding his brother, taken back to the Indian village and nursed back to health by Tonto's sister. Originally, Reid had once helped Tonto. Now, Tonto meets Luke Hartman when an extremely inept Luke tried to save Tonto's sister in the beginning of the movie. In the original, the Lone Ranger molded his bullets from a silver mine that he and his brother had discovered. This new version never mentioned silver bullets.Finally, Kung Fu type fighting replaced fists and the renowned "Lone Ranger Theme" (William Tell Overture), was only played briefly at the end. In the short, only the names of Tonto, Silver and the alias Lone Ranger remained the same.