Deze week gaat The Lone Ranger in de Nederlandse bioscopen draaien, en is in Amerika een grote flop geworden. De reden?? het publiek liet deze summer blockbuster massaal links liggen en zijn waarschijnlijk moe dat Johnny Depp steeds een zelfde rol speelt. Uiteraard moet iemand de schuld krijgen en dat geven Johnny Depp en Armie Hammer geven de pers die te kritische reviews hebben geschreven. Persoonlijk heb ik de film nog niet gezien (kon op de dag van de screening helaas niet), maar het lijkt me gewoon een leuke no brainer popcorn film.

"I think the reviews were written 7-8 months before we released the film," said Johnny Depp. "I think the reviews were written when they heard Gore [Verbinksi] and Jerry [Bruckheimer] and me were going to do 'The Lone Ranger'. They had expectations that it must be a blockbuster. I didn't have any expectations of that. I never do."

Ignoring his disapproving publicist, Hammer agreed with his co-star. "I have a delightful opinion about that that she's gonna get mad to me about sharing [his publicist]. But I'm going to tell you.

"This is the deal with American critics: they've been gunning for our movie since it was shut down the first time, that's when most of the critics wrote their initial reviews.

"If you go back and read the negative reviews, most of them aren't about the content of the movie, but more what's behind it. It's got to the point with American critics where if you're not as smart as Plato, your stupid. [sic - this is a priceless typo] That seems like a sad way to live your life.

"While we were making it we knew people were gunning for it. I think it was the popular thing when the movie hit rocky terrain they jumped on the bandwagon to try and bash it. They tried to do the same thing with to 'World War Z', it didn't work, the movie was successful. Instead they decided to slit the jugular of our movie."