Craig Rosenblum This is just a good movie, I'd even say it's a great B-movie.First off, what really sells me on this movie is the following factors.1. The Music, I really love the music, just touches me, the power and the mystery of the American west, the natural wonders that is America. Just powerful and touching music.2. Two Boys Meet, I really like the meeting of the two boys, maybe it was glossed over a bit, still the boys part was one of myth building that this movie does really well.3. The Older Brother, he just out acts the guy portraying his younger brother, but he does it in such a natural way. This is how a normal guy would do or say, to protect his family, his loved ones.4. The natural beauty of the American wild west.5. Christopher Lloyd, I just purely love this classic character actor's work. Even when he's young, he just out acts, out performs as a pure evil, methodical, military style villain. He is outstanding as Butch Cavendish.6. The Death of the Rangers, feels so real, so powerful, so dusty.7. The power and truth of the white horse, as a spirit for truth and justice. The silver bullets and the white horse, mediums for delivering truth and justice! Hi Ho Silver, and away! 8. Jason Robards, He looks awesome, as the manly President Ulysses S. Grant, he exudes presidential material.Even with the real bad moments of acting, plot writing.There is still so much to treasure, to value.And let's be honest, Hollywood really sucks at doing remakes, just look at how they poorly remade The Green Hornet.FYI, are you aware that "The Lone Ranger" (John Reid) is a distant uncle to "The Green Hornet" (Britt Reid)? Even in the The Green Hornet TV Show in the 1960's in Britt Reid's office is a photo of a masked man, "The Lone Ranger".To me this is a classic of both western myths, but of truth and justice.

Kennkmay50 I had always been a fan of "The Lone Ranger" since I was a little boy...Clayton Moore and John Hart were so good in their episodes riding into our living rooms with each episode making our day so exciting and teaching us a lesson with each airing... Somehow I missed seeing this movie in the theaters when it first came out but I was determined to see it someday, somehow...Then in 2013, Disney's "The Lone Ranger" came out and mostly to negative reviews however I took my wife and we both loved it as it appeared did most of the people in the audience. Good clean fun, and very exciting, carefully balancing it's comic sequences with phenomenally choreographed action sets...cannot understand how this movie was so universally panned...it deserved better. It also whet my appetite again to see this 1980's version. I was able to purchase a copy off Amazon and couldn't wait to see it. Never in my life had I been so disappointed. Spilsbury, rightfully gave up acting after his lone wooden depiction of one of my all time heroes. In fact I found out that his lines were dubbed over by Stacey Keach's younger brother as he was SO bad. Particularly annoying was Merle Haggard's narration of the story, in poetic verse nonetheless, with forced rhymes that were unintentionally laughable...They also messed with the legend having Tonto meet the Lone Ranger years before when they were both children and a young John Reid who would grow up to be the LR saved Tonto's life!...The final scenes were OK, but it was too little too late to save this movie. It did help to see John Hart come back to make a brief appearance as a newspaper publisher but overall I cannot come up with anything good to say about this movie other than it was relatively short coming in at just over an hour and a half.

skoyles I first saw The Legend of the Lone Ranger with my then eleven year old daughter and have not seen it until this evening when I enjoyed a none to good DVD in a "FULL SCREEN"(i.e., butchered for 1.33:1 CRT TVs) format. I may never lose the idiot smile on my face. The music is what one can always expect from John Barry, one of the greatest composers to ever write for the movies. The details show a genuine effort to get things right: in the prologue set in 1854 cap-and-ball revolvers are used (1860 models but at least they tried); in the body of the motion picture Colt 1873s and Remington 1875s are used. The town and Indian village are beautifully realized while the gorgeous cinematography even survives FULL SCREEN. A pre-"Back to the Future" Christopher Lloyd is terrifying. It is redolent with references that only fans of the radio and Clayton Moore TV show would get: Detroit, John Hart, Striker. Somebody tried very hard! The Me generation's attempt to hold to the story and legend of what was entertainment and instruction for children required the blood and surfer hairdo (shudder) but such things do not detract from the Legend. I have yet to see the 2013 Lone Ranger but a friend has seen it and recommended it highly. We shall see but, for now, this 1981 movie, excoriated by critiques and shunned by North American audiences, can hold its head high.

jfreeman714 When you were a kid and listened to the Lone Ranger on the radio it was exciting. Years later, when Clayton Moore and Jay Silverheels played the Lone Ranger and Tonto in the TV series The Lone Ranger, it brought ones heroes to life through the eyes of a youngster. Who can forget the masked man riding away at the end of the program shouting, "HiHo Silver,and Away", all to the stirring music of the William Tell Overture! Wow!We all loved and respected the lone ranger and his faithful companion Tonto, but we never really knew the story of how the two came to be such great friends and why they had chosen fighting evil and injustice as an occupation. Well,the Ledgend of the Lone Ranger brings us right up to speed in a fashion that reveals many of attributes and flaws that are found as choices for all us. Loyalty, honesty, character, and fair play are pitted against deception, greed, cruelty and murder! Sounds just like another Lone Ranger episode. But,No! This time the hero is portrayed in the role of the victim. Will good have its day and triumph over evil? Things look mighty grim, after all, we've been into at least half the movie and haven't even seen or heard of our hero. And that's the point. Stick around for the wonderful second half to see how the Lone Ranger evolves, when he comes upon Silver, when he's reunited with Tonto and when he rides like the wind to even the score, as Rossini's Overture creates goosebumps, just like it did when we were kids!