A superior pizza movie, Depp is a likeable and sympathetic Tonto, unrecognisable in old age, and is well supported, especially by William Fitchner giving it both barrels as the despicable Butch Cavendish, but also by Hammer, as the rube transformed into a western hero, Tom Wilkinson and Helena Bonham Carter. The film isn't too overwheled by the special effects and the plot zips along, so why it wasn't a box-office success I don't know. Maybe it was a Depp too far for some people. As the reporter at the end of "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance" says, "This is the West, sir: when the legend becomes fact, print the legend!".
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