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"FacebookPinterest\n\nComing soon to a theater near everybody on the planet, The Lone Ranger could be fun or else just suck: We don't know. What we're kind of wistfully starting to wonder about, though, is when we'll get to see Johnny Depp again in a part where his makeup isn't doing half the work. Does anyone else besides us have fond memories of his days as a lightning-in-a-bottle actor who added disconcerting poetry to everything he touched\u2014 from Dead Man, the greatest movie Jim Jarmusch will ever make, to Donnie Brasco?\n\n So far as we can tell, he also has a hard time these days working up much interest in characters who aren't outrageously stylized. Even as John Dillinger in Michael Mann's Public Enemies\u2014a part the younger Depp could have crammed with edgy danger, cryptic glamour, and perverse chivalry\u2014 he was unexpectedly wan. Probably the last time he delivered a committed, nofurbelows, gimmick-free performance in a more or less realistic movie was as the coke dealer in 2001's Blow.\n\n Even in his Kabuki-for-the-masses stunt parts, his trick bag is getting a mite familiar. Whether or not you share his Hunter S. Thompson fixation, it's not a good sign that his Tonto sounds a lot like the HST impersonation he's already used in no fewer than three movies. So even if The Lone Ranger turns out to be just dandy, what we're pinning our hopes on is that, sooner or later, Depp is going to get bored with starring in movies in which he shows up looking like a drug lord's Pez dispenser and brings the fey for big bucks. When he gets bored, all sorts of unpredictable things tend to happen.\n\nMuch as we may dig, say, Paul Giamatti, faces like the one Johnny's got don't exactly grow on trees: those Harley-Davidson cheekbones, those eyes that can flip in a second from a locksmith's to a safecracker's. And neither does his kind of talent, which can still find surprises and unexpected territory to explore whenever we think we've got him pinned.\n\n It's not as if eccentricity wasn't his idea of bliss from the minute he fled teen idolhood on 21 Jump Street for John Waters's welcoming arms way back when. Then Edward Scissorhands launched him as Tim Burton's signature pixie-dust purveyor in one outsider fantasia after another. With diminishing returns, we regret to say\u2014though even as late as 2010, his Mad Hatter in Alice in Wonderland had delicate moments of real compassion amid the busywork.\n\n But long before then, Pirates of the Caribbean had turned him from a wayward vial of actorly nitro into a Disney superstar. Maybe he still thinks he's teaching us to appreciate misfits and loons when he gets his freak on\u2014or even, in The Lone Ranger, to do right by America's indigenes. \"It was important to give as much back to the Native Americans as possible,\" he's said. But for both better and worse, doing it in a Gore Verbinski summer blockbuster isn't exactly the same as doing it in Dead Man. The idea that he's subverting these kiddie lollapaloozas with his own sly agendas made lots of sense in the first Pirates movie, but four sequels and $4 billion in box-office gross later, it's beginning to wear a little thin."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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