My baby daughter (25 years old) took her old Dad to see his childhood hero, The Lone Ranger, on the first evening it was released. What a huge disappointment. While NO ONE could ever replace Clayton Moore (in my memories), I was not expecting a Clayton Moore-type so I eliminated that prior to seeing it. I figured they might explore the darker side of the LR, like the Dark Knight / Batman scenario, but NOPE. Armie Hammer's portrayal was pathetic. They should have cast Clinton Spillsbury again (remember that other monumental flop in the early 1980s) instead of Armie Hammer. Actually, Arnold Schwarzenegger could have done a better job with the role. I truly believed Johnny Depp could save the movie from when first announced he'd portray Tonton, but, with all his effort. bizarre make-up and constant indecision of whether to be funny, serious, crazy or senile (he can't make up his mind which) .... it was a flat out disappointment, however, the opening scene of a kid in the 1930s-1940s dressed in his cowboy suit in the circus tent probably lit a few good memories of us older guys when having gun-toys and the cowboy hero outfit of our favorite character was an essential of our culture instead of a taboo of modern times. Tonto has been transformed into a cartoon-ish side-show freakish medicine man of Native-American (in our terms: Indian) instead of the scout and loyal friend of yesteryear. Armed with a dead bird on his head and layers of makeup like sun dried mud, cracking and checkering off his face. I suppose this nouveau approach was to disastrous attempt to bring "The Lone Ranger" into the 21st Century approval of a younger audience creating a new viewing audience for an old fictional, pre-super power, hero. It flat out did NOT work. The anticipation of an old timer (like myself) knowing how and what to expect ... during the flick you're waiting for the trumpeted notes to the mid section of the William Tell Overture (you KNOW it had to be in there somewhere someplace) ... it was a complete BUST !! Take if form a guy who had the Lone Ranger outfit as a kid, with the guns, mask, vest, boots and all ( as well as my chrome plated Mattel, shooting-shell Colt :: excuse the profanity :: 45 revolvers with the Greenie stick-em caps and chrome studded holster ), save your money, buy the enhanced DVDs of the old LR full length movies and TV serials ... while looking at them now are as corny as can be ... we can more relate to that with fond memories than look at the pathetic performance of Armie Hammer. There is only one star on the Hollywood walk of fame that is inscribed with the actor AS the character he portrayed ... "Clayton Moore, The Lone Ranger". Amen !