Jonah Hex (2010)

Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Too many fans seem to be blown away

At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

It's an amazing and heartbreaking story.

(Originally seen a few years ago) They say it's a comic book film, some call it a western, I call it an abomination. When you cast Megan Fox for sex appeal, you must also test her acting ability, for which is non existent, Megan Fox is appalling, she cannot act, and Josh Brolin, a respectable actor probably needed the money, as this is the worst thing he has ever done. As for Malkovich he yet again proves he is only in these worthless film's for the money and he is camp and dreadful here. Jonah Hex has horrendous writing, no story and incoherent, terribly edited action sequences as well, this is another film that I can without a doubt call, an abomination. 0/10

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.

There's not really anything offensively wrong with "Jonah Hex", but it is a brutal, spirit-crushing disappointment. Here we are in the age of superhero Hollywood, and Hex finally gets his shot. And what we get is . . . this. a painfully flat western that features all sorts of jokey elements - eyesore color grading, gattling guns on a horse, a metal score, Megan Fox, some half-brained superweapon, cut-rate CGI - but plays it numbingly serious. I've never been a big Josh Brolin fan, but he kinda works as Hex. And in a movie helmed by better personnel, he'd be great. He leads a surprisingly high-caliber of talent here. And to see those names on something so inept is just . . . what the hell was going on on this production? Are we ever going to see another Hex outing before the superhero boom runs out of steam? Most likely not, which is the really frustrating part. Spider-Man, Fantastic Four, Batman, all headed for another do-over, and a character that deserves better gets this steaming pile? We all got the shaft on this one.2/10

I wanted to love this movie, I really did. But it is such a mess that I can barely even find some kind of silver lining in it. I am a huge fan of the character of Jonah Hex, not only because he is a badass cowboy, but I have always found him intriguing whether it'd be in a cartoon or comic. Yet this movie takes the character and just f***s everything up. Okay, to cut the movie some slack, Josh Brolin does a decent job as Jonah. But the script is so off that he doesn't get to give the perfect Jonah hex performance I thought he would. But overall he is decent. It is also a western which is my favorite overall genre of movies. And while the soundtrack doesn't fit too well, the songs by metal band Mastodon aren't too bad. Now to the stuff that is bad; EVERYTHING ELSE! I am sorry, but everything in this movie (that wasn't mentioned in the previous paragraph) is complete s***. I can't find anything good in this movie and therefore this movie pisses me off. I do not recommend this movie. It sucks. Stay away!