10 Movies Everyone Remembers For ONE Awesome Scene

Gore Verbinski's The Lone Ranger is a monument to blockbuster excess - a $250 million tentpole with way too much money and far too few ideas.

Hence, any time it stops to talk, it's a resounding bore, and by the end of its 149-minute runtime, it feels more like an endurance trial than a breezy, nostalgic thrill-ride.

Verbinski is at least smart enough to end the movie on a doozy of a final set-piece, though - a deliriously entertaining, 15-minute chase sequence in which Tonto (Johnny Depp) steals a train belonging to railroad tycoon Latham Cole (Tom Wilkinson), who has his cronies give chase in another train.

This is all while the Lone Ranger (Armie Hammer) provides backup on horseback, in a scene that's filled with creative, Buster Keaton-inspired action beats, particularly when Tonto is swung between trains on a giant ladder.

While so much of the movie is indistinguishable from any other glossy, over-budgeted action-adventure film, this sequence is an absolute banger and deserves more praise than it's ever received.