Jonah Hex
Gunslinger 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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- Cast:
- Josh Brolin , John Malkovich , Megan Fox , Michael Fassbender , Will Arnett , Aidan Quinn , Wes Bentley
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Highly Overrated But Still Good
As somebody who had not heard any of this before, it became a curious phenomenon to sit and watch a film and slowly have the realities begin to click into place.
The biggest problem with this movie is it’s a little better than you think it might be, which somehow makes it worse. As in, it takes itself a bit too seriously, which makes most of the movie feel kind of dull.
An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.
Jonah Hex has been highly criticized from critics and fans alike, and offered a poor run at the box office. With a run time of 81 minutes, the film does move quite slowly in the beginning but after around halfway (once Michael Fassbender's character is introduced more so) it picks up the pace. Although we see the flaws in the film in that it feels rushed, messy and not completely interesting or enjoyable. It reminds somewhat of Ghost Rider (2007) but that film had a more thought-out plot, better backstory, better villains and overall slightly more intriguing.Though it has some decent ideas, we can see why the film was considered a misfire. Even with the faults, the film isn't long enough for a complete disaster and some of the scenery's are quite nice and fight scenes towards the end are entertaining. Josh Brolin plays his role well, and Megan Fox is there for eye candy. Overall Jonah Hex may surprise those wanting something quick and entertaining, and may be better than expecting.
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)
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.
Once again DC Comics took another try with one of their comic book characters and give them their own motion picture.This time however we get Jonah Hex a character I never knew existed in the DC world because all I knew were Batman, Superman and others After watching this movie now I know why I haven't heard of Jonah Hex.But from what I have learn from both the movie and research on the comic character himself is that he's a western comic book anti-heroHex is a surly and cynical bounty hunter whose face is horribly scarred on the right side. Despite his poor reputation and personality, Hex is bound by a personal code of honor to protect and avenge the innocent.Now the movie has Josh Brolin playing the part of Jonah Hex and some praise his performance and thought he was the right actor for the role, I will have to agree he did a good job as the anti-hero of the film. He has a woman who works as a call girl Lilah played by Megan Fox.At the time I watch this movie it was because Megan Fox was in it and she did have some fair acting in the film as well as having a clever girl moment in the film. The film's main antagonist is Quentin Turnbull played by John Malkovich and he is a sick monster in the film and John deliver an twisted performance in the film. But the performance is not the three main cast members who give some good performance in the film the film's problem is the film itself it has too many dark scenes and graphic to boot, there also scenes that prove to be too intense for movie goersAnd I don't know how many know of Jonah Hex it's one of those characters you either know about or don't know about either way this film will not make you a fan of Jonah Hex because the script feels plain as the best word I can give it. Jonah Hex also has some powers like he can bring the dead back to life for just a few moments to gain informationIt's just hard to take this film even seriously, it just feels broken like they wanted to make a movie just to get a paycheck and to bring in on Megan's success in the "Transformers" filmsOverall the film is still graphic and hard to even consider serious but Josh, John and Megan performances are the only thing worth left to say about this film.I give Jonah Hex an 5 out of 10