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Depp, for seemingly decades now, has become one of the more revered figures in acting for his caricature portrayals of everyone from Ed Wood, Jr. to Edward Scissorhands.

But the greasepaint started to run back with Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and four doses (soon to be five) of Pirates of the Caribbean havent helped.

And with his Tonto getting top billing over The Lone Ranger well enough is enough.

The Lone Ranger isnt the biggest disappointment of the summer, but at nearly 150 minutes in length and seemingly that many minutes of dull stretches, it comes mighty close.

Director Gore Verbinski who has made all of the Pirates of the Caribbean films borefests (except for his highly original first film) pretty much does the same thing here. There is a rousing climax with explosions, train crashes and the like, but getting to that climax is a major undertaking.

The script here is reminiscent of Little Big Man (which for a lengthy film is much more fun, plus it features Dustin Hoffman in one of his stellar roles). The year is 1933 and Tonto (Depp under even more makeup than usual) is aged and is a part of a Wild West sideshow.

And Tonto (in Little Big Man fashion) does a lengthy flashback to a young Lone Ranger fan, of what is what like to be the famous sidekick of a Western hero.

Armie Hammer (The Social Network) plays John Reid/The Lone Ranger and competing with Depp and his makeup does make the famous ranger little more than a sidekick. Hammer does finally get in super hero mode in that rousing climax, which comes complete with the obligatory Rossini William Tell Overture. But it takes a rousing William Tell Overture to stay awake through much of The Lone Ranger.

There is some nice cinematography of the West that would probably even meet director John Fords approval, but that can only go so far.

In true Western tradition there are bad guys (William Fichtner plays a particularly nasty villain) and the ladies, the innocent and not so innocent (frequent Depp co-star Helena Bonham Carter) and they are saving graces of The Lone Ranger.

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Who was that masked man? Lone Ranger plays under study to Johnny Depp’s Tonto

By Ken Jackson

Staff Writer

A case of mistaken identity led to the shooting death Saturday of an Orlando man on Interstate 4 by a St. Cloud resident, Hillsborough County Sheriffs officials have said.

Jerome Edward Hayes, 48, was arrested and charged with first-degree murder with a firearm after turning himself in Monday to authorities in Tampa in reference to the incident on Saturday that left Fred Turner, 47, dead on the side of the road near the Interstate 75 interchange.

Hayes is alleged to have followed Turner out of the parking lot of a Tampa adult video store, thinking the victim was someone he was involved in an altercation with at a neighboring strip club earlier that day.

In the investigation, detectives determined that Turner had left Tres Equis at 6222 Adamo Drive, around the same time that two males were thrown out of the Tampa Gold Club, which shares a parking lot with Tres Equis. The two males were observed getting in a grey Ford Taurus, and one retrieved an unknown object from the trunk prior to pulling out of the parking lot, according to the report.

At approximately 3 p.m. Saturday, Tampa dispatchers received a 911 call from Turner, driving a green Ford Mustang, who advised that a grey Ford Taurus had been following him since leaving the parking lot, and that he was on North 50th Street approaching Interstate 4 to head eastbound.

The call was transferred to Florida Highway Patrol dispatch, to whom Turner advised that the Taurus was less than a car length behind him on the eastbound interstate. Turner then advised the Taurus pulled alongside his Mustang. A short time later, the 911 dispatcher reportedly heard a string of unknown noises that detectives believe were gunshots striking the Mustang.

After the noises, the dispatcher did not hear Turner again speak or respond. FHP troopers dispatched found Turner dead on the left shoulder of I-4 near I-75, some seven miles from the Adamo Drive parking lot.

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