15 Critically Mauled Movies (That Aren't Actually That Bad)

Rotten Tomatoes Score: 30%

Consensus: "Armie Hammer and Johnny Depp make for an appealing pair of leads, but they're not enough to make up for The Lone Ranger's bland script, bloated length, and blaring action overkill."

This one is maddening.

The reviews were reviewing one thing and one thing only: the budget. Much like Waterworld nearly 20 years earlier, the film got pre-judged and ripped on purely because it had a troubled production.

This is actually a pretty good blockbuster. The 150 minute run-time is too much, Johnny Depp does one of his insufferable hyperactive performances and the film has its dips, but other than that this is a funny, exuberant, visually stunning and genuinely charming adventure story with an irresistible spirit.

The script is entertaining, the action is exhilarating, the direction from the always-underrated Gore Verbinski is accomplished... how does that add up to a turkey that got a ton of Razzie nominations?

With this one, plenty of others agree. Quentin Tarantino's a fan of this movie and outside of America the reviews were actually mixed-to-positive, proving that many critics got this film horribly, horribly wrong. There are few critically panned films that deserved it less than The Lone Ranger.