Jonah Hex
June. 18,2010 PG-13Gunslinger Jonah Hex is appointed by President Ulysses Grant to track down terrorist Quentin Turnbull, a former Confederate officer determined on unleashing hell on earth. Jonah not only secures freedom by accepting this task, he also gets revenge on the man who slayed his wife and child.
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I have seen worse movies, but this is on that list! A simplified version of a violent DC Comics "Weird Western" anti-hero, raised by the "Indians". Hex gets resurrected twice. The first-time in the animated titles. When he "comes back" a bird flies out of his mouth! He can talk to the recently dead, which allows him to apologize to Quentin Trumbull's son, whom he killed, and also to get directions. Really! Basically, a trumped-up "Wild Wild West" type plot involving a super cannonball, invented by Eli Whitney, which glows-in-the-dark and has nitroglycerin or atomic destructive powers. Quentin Trumbull devises a "Gatling Gun" that launches these things on either land or by sea. He wants to re-start The Civil War and he is insane. Revenge and murder trigger the feud between Hex and Trumbull after Hex is branded with a heinous scar on his face and jaw. Like most westerns, it's a chase movie. Almost every principle character gets to kill someone in the most violent way possible. Guns, knifes, fists, fire, explosions. Even "Lilah" (Hex's prostitute girlfriend) has her turn. There's a battleship fight between two "Ironclad" ships as well. Violent and disturbing but better than expected! Hex is pardoned by President Grant and rides off into the sunset with his trusty horse and wolf-dog at his side. A real "curio" and a big unpopular "bomb" at the box-office. Under 75 minutes with extended titles, but seems longer.
"Jonah Hex" stars Josh Brolin as the titular character whose a rather disfigured bounty hunter in the Old West of the late 19th century. He is grizzled, worn-down and expressionless with a knack of hunting down anyone and often succeeds. Having stare in the face of death and jumping over the hurdles, his status is virtually untouchable. Hex has the ability to interact with the living and with the deceased. A natural lone wolf, Hex's only human companion is an equally down-trodden young lady named Lily (Megan Fox) who's time spent in a brothel has left her in a woeful disposition. Hex's past is starting to tap on his shoulders as the US Military persuades him into some negotiation deals he just can't say no to. Rather be fined on many warrants placed upon him, he must take down an evil Confederate soldier named General Quentin Turnbull (John Malkovich) who takes complete responsibility for the annihilation of his entire family and destroying his face with the help of a branding iron. Turnbull is joined by a platoon of fellow soldier to join the party and the party won't be over until Hex is worm chow. Based on iconic superhero character off of DC comics, "Jonah Hex" is a lone man's journey to get vengeance in an epic battle of good against evil. I knew walking into the theatres I had low expectations. However this movie took me by surprise. This movie sunk to the lowest denominator as one of the worst superhero adapted film ever made. In fact I never thought I'd live this day to ever utter such words, but the 2004 travesty "Catwoman" was actually better than this bucket of slop. Sure it's a simple done to death story of a perpetually scarred Confederate soldier settling the score against a tyrannical general after the merciless murder of his wife and son. The culprit is a fellow Confederate soldier who also wants Hex to pay for the murder of his own son during the infamous Civil War. Cut to ten years later in 1876, the centennial year of America's existence, Turnbull has conjured up a destructive weapon that will eradicate the entire United States. Oh God! Help me out please!Where to begin? This movie is truly awful I almost did an unlikely thing by walking out. It was that bad. The performances were some of the absolute worst even from the performers I usually praise. Josh Brolin's complexion looks contrived and superficial and his backstory has been done to death. John Malkovich what were you thinking? You're one of the best performers in our industry and you chose this movie over other movies you could have been in. I'm surprised at you. And as for you Megan Fox, please leave Hollywood to the actors because you are not one of them. You may have a pretty face to bad acting talents don't come with the package. What really kept me from leaving the theatre was that this movie was 80 minutes long.I won't go over any elaborate details here, but in a nutshell, "Jonah Hex" was an absolute abomination. And though the character was taken out of a comic book, the audience would never think it through because it was quite unconvincing. At least Jonah Hex isn't sporting spandex tights and a cape. It's already a travesty without the BS. "Mystery Science Theater 3000" would have fun grilling this awful turd.
The U.S. military makes a scarred bounty hunter with warrants on his own head an offer he cannot refuse: in exchange for his freedom, he must stop a terrorist who is ready to unleash Hell on Earth. The Problem with Jonah Hex is that is a pretty forgettable film 81 minutes of absolutely nothing, nothing really memorable and the cast was OK or average at best Michael Fassbender was easily the best part of the movie alongside Josh Brolin was makes a good Jonah Hex and their fight was pretty cool. John Malkovich worked as a bad guy in Con Air in this one not that much and Megan Fox isn't that much into this film so don't worry, Will Arnett is forgettable and he shouldn't be even in the film Michael Shannon has a small cameo and it's not that great thank god for Man of Steel honestly and even the dude from Ghost Rider has a small role and it's not that great. Jeffrey Dean Morgan also plays a dead guy he has basically made a great DC career by playing dead men The Comedian & Thomas Wayne. Anyways although it has moments that make no freaking sense that reminds me of Ghost Rider and the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen but there are good things with the film that snake guy was creepy as hell, Jonah Hex dream sequence with the crow coming out of his mouth pretty badass, flame thrower even Fox has some moments to shine not a Catwoman type of film but it's not a Dark Knight type of a film also it's clearly that Studios and bad direction killed the film where it could easily make a whole franchise out of this just look Guardians of the Galaxy for instance another big problem was that the director directed previously a kids movie named Horton and then the 2013 Free Birds he was even in Animation Department in films such as Toy Story & Toy Story 2 so you can easily see that a director of this kind is wrong for a DC Dark comic book but honestly i enjoyed the film it was better than Batman & Robin it the sense of being serious but in terms of being fun Bat-Nipples the movie was better i give it a 6.5 out of 10.
I'm no big fan of comic book adaptations, but even by the standards of the genre, JONAH HEX is a terrible film. I should have guessed that the taint of Neveldine & Taylor (responsible for directing CRANK: HIGH VOLTAGE and GHOST RIDER: SPIRIT OF VENGEANCE) was on this one, as it has the same bargain basement quality, hyperactive child look and feel. Even if they didn't direct (that job went to a Pixar animator, of all people) the film still looks like one of their efforts.The story is about a scarred, supernatural gunslinger looking for revenge on the guys who murdered his wife. Josh Brolin plays it gruff and miserable, and is just about passable; given that he's virtually unrecognisable beneath the makeup, I guess he gets away with it. The supporting cast aren't so lucky. John Malkovich hams it up as the bad guy, and as for Megan Fox, well she appears to have the kiss of death in terms of the quality of the films in which she stars. The only person who comes away with any credibility is Michael Fassbender, whose henchman villain is more menacing than the chief bad guy.Elsewhere, the film is a mess of poorly-shot action and endless CGI. 90% of the thing is shot in near pitch blackness so you can't really see what's going on, and you easily miss cameoing stars like Michael Shannon and Jeffrey Dean Morgan. The action is an awful, over-directed mess, with an emphasis on boring CGI explosions and the like, and as for the story...well, what story? Give this mess a miss at all costs.