Cleveronix A different way of telling a story

Baseshment I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

BallWubba Wow! What a bizarre film! Unfortunately the few funny moments there were were quite overshadowed by it's completely weird and random vibe throughout.

Kinley This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

cinemajesty DC Comic movie adaptation of "Jonah Hex" is one mess of a movie. A production budget of 47 Million Dollar put down to lowest corner of a Warner Bros. lot dumpster. Screen writing pair Mark Neveldine & Brian Taylor gladly moved on as first-choice directors in favor for the movie "Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vegeance" (2011), which did not really improved the situation for the partially innovative directors of "Crank" (2006) on the emerging domination of Marvel comic book adaptations with "Iron Man" (2008-2013) and "Captain America" (2011-2016) as front-runners. They made room for director Jimmy Hayward, who had at no time the picture under control, even though the promising ensemble cast starting from Josh Brolin in the title-given role accompanied by actress Megan Fox, who together share probably the most entertaining moments in "Jonah Hex"; a movie that glorifies booze, whoring and any acts of violence in a Neo-Western scenario with PG-13 rating, received through the MPAA butcher shop and green-lit WB executives, which brought the running time down to 75 Minutes (excluding the end credits), not worth any box office ticket; to actors John Malkovich and Michael Fassbender as double-team nemesis of anti-hero "Jonah Hex", who clearly had fun with their role variations, yet at no time were pressured by the director to make this picture a 90 Minute thrill-ride with no cheap looking animated flash-forward fill-ins and clear cut hardcore R-rated showdown on an unless promising battleship destroyer location, missing any passion for the original graphic novel content, where the main character, a former confederate soldier of the U.S. civil war, revived my Native Americans, who has the gift of awakening the dead by touching their skin and delivering punchline as "Cut myself shaving.", on getting asked on his disfiguring facial scar origins before sending the questioner pistol-shot to hell.© 2017 Felix Alexander Dausend (Cinemajesty Entertainments LLC)

DeadSpiderEye You know there's trouble ahead when you're barely into the first reel and find the narrative being conveyed through a series of voice overs accompanied by some crummy animation. It's a clear sign that they run out of money somewhere, that or one of the major cast members refused to deliver any more lines. The rumour concerning this film is that both those contingencies occurred during the re-shoot, a re-shoot by the way, prompted purely by the motive to destroy the film. It seems it's a another case of Howard the Duck, quite how people can get away with that kind of thing and stay out of gaol is a mystery of the magnitude that would stump Jonah himself but it's something that persists in the US film industry.So what we're left with is barely a film at all, it's not much more than a series of roughly assembled tableaux accompanied by music. The plot is impenetrable, senseless even and as an adaption of a comic strip character it ranks almost as bad as Batman and Robin.

mike48128 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.

Mr-Fusion 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