Jonah Hex (2010)

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)

Jonah Hex (2010): Dir: Jimmy Hayward / Cast: Josh Brolin, John Malkovich, Megan Fox, Michael Fassbender, Will Arnett: Obscure comic book superhero made into an embarrassing showcase and deserving box office bomb. Jonah Hex has the ability to communicate with dead people after being put to death himself. He was forced to watch his wife and son burn to death. Now he wants revenge on those responsible. Directed to uninspired heights by Jimmy Hayward with superb special effects and facial makeup on Josh Brolin as Hex. Brolin is basically a one man killing machine as Hex and nothing more. John Malkovich is wasted as a cardboard villain threatening mankind with a doomsday device. Can he not come up with a better plan? It is depressing witnessing an actor of Malkovich's calibre wasted in shameless world domination schemes that were made fun of in Austin Powers. Megan Fox is fetching yet laughable as a feisty prostitute. She is yet another one of these women whom appears totally sexual yet dislikes the attention and when pressured she waves a knife about as to make viewers believe that she is tough as oppose to a joke. Michael Fassbender also appears for all the good it will do him. Will Arnett enlist in Jonah Hex's services but what he should have done is enlist in an agent that doesn't dupe him into projects like this. Superhero films are usually the item of profit but when viewers are mostly unfamiliar with it then the filmmakers are potentially kicking themselves in the ass by even thinking it will be a hit. The result is an idiotic pointless contraption should be hexed with a hatchet. Score: 2 / 10

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 have wanted to see this film for a long time, and found the DVD in car boot sale, i enjoyed it from start to end, i used to read the dc comic when i was young, and always thought clint eastwood was him in the spaghetti westerns, but never dark enough, well this film shows him in an authentic way.With his ability to talk to the dead, and survive death. the film covers his life, explaining how he became what he is, i liked the action sequences. megan fox was a nice break from the darkness, that follow jonah wherever he goes. there were lots of surprises,and twists, gun fights,and general swash buckler feeling to the film id recommend this film to anybody who likes westerns, comics, revenge and supernatural stories.