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Jonah Hex (2010)

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Average Rating: 3.4/10
Reviews Counted: 143
Fresh: 18 | Rotten: 125

Josh Brolin gives it his best shot, but he can't keep the short, unfocused Jonah Hex from collapsing on the screen.

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Average Rating: 3.5/10
Critic Reviews: 30
Fresh: 2 | Rotten: 28

Josh Brolin gives it his best shot, but he can't keep the short, unfocused Jonah Hex from collapsing on the screen.

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Movie Info

1970s-era DC antihero Jonah Hex makes his way to the big screen as co-screenwriters Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor (Crank, Gamer) team to follow the disfigured gunslinger and part-time bounty hunter on his biggest adventure yet. Supernatural elements combine with Western aesthetics to take viewers on a wild and bloody ride, with Josh Brolin leading the way as Hex and John Malkovich stepping into the villainous role of Turnbull. Jimmy Hayward (Horton Hears a Who) directs. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi

PG-13, 1 hr. 24 min.

Western, Drama, Action & Adventure, Horror

Mark Neveldine, Brian Taylor

Oct 12, 2010

$10.5M

Warner Bros. Pictures

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Critic Reviews for Jonah Hex

All Critics (144) | Top Critics (30) | Fresh (18) | Rotten (128) | DVD (9)

There's just one ingredient missing: anyone with a clue.

July 6, 2010 Full Review Source: Newsday | Comment
Rafer Guzman
Newsday
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Begins affably enough as a random slew of Leone-style squint-a-thons and shoot-outs but then loses it way in a dopey, anachronism-happy sci-fi plot.

June 18, 2010 Full Review Source: Chicago Reader | Comment
Cliff Doerksen
Chicago Reader
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Calling Jonah Hex a waste of time requires qualification, given the action flick weighs in at 82 minutes.

June 18, 2010 Full Review Source: Globe and Mail | Comments (2)
Stephen Cole
Globe and Mail
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Director Jimmy Hayward fails to establish a viable reason for this movie to exist.

June 18, 2010 Full Review Source: Rolling Stone | Comments (4)
Peter Travers
Rolling Stone
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It isn't just that no effort is expended on old-fogey ideas like character development; it's more that Hayward doesn't even try to make individual scenes make sense.

June 18, 2010 Full Review Source: Salon.com | Comment
Andrew O'Hehir
Salon.com
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I think Jonah Hex could have exceeded 80 minutes to make room for some real visual invention. And three-dimensional characters. And a plot. A plot would have been nice.

June 18, 2010 Full Review Source: San Francisco Chronicle | Comments (9)
Amy Biancolli
San Francisco Chronicle
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It's a standard Western revenge tale dressed up with supernatural elements.

July 14, 2011 Full Review Source: Digital Spy | Comment
Simon Reynolds
Digital Spy

The mark of a good actor is being good in a really bad movie. Josh Brolin is a really, really good actor, because most of the time he's on screen speaking you can almost forget what a loathsome, irredeemable, turd of a film Jonah Hex is.

March 29, 2011 Full Review Source: ComingSoon.net | Comment
Joshua Starnes
ComingSoon.net

When it works, which it does quite often, it's one of the better comic book adaptations of recent years.

December 14, 2010 Full Review Source: Goatdog's Movies | Comment
Michael W. Phillips, Jr.
Goatdog's Movies Source: Goatdog's Movies

Seems almost calculated meticulously to suck the life out of its audience as much as humanly possible...

December 5, 2010 Full Review Source: Cinema Crazed | Comment
Felix Vasquez Jr.
Cinema Crazed

The film is simply too brief, too befuddled and too delirious to do the comic book legend justice.

October 20, 2010 Full Review Source: IGN DVD | Comment
R. L. Shaffer
IGN DVD

An awful excuse for cinema that ultimately fails in nearly every way possible.

October 20, 2010 Full Review Source: Christianity Today | Comment
David Roark
Christianity Today Source: Christianity Today

Clocking in at a mere 81 minutes, it feels like an eternity. Read the comic.

October 12, 2010 Full Review Source: KPBS.org | Comment
Beth Accomando
KPBS.org

...too short, too prosaic, and too shallow. At best, it's a harmless diversion. (Blu-ray Edition)

October 12, 2010 Full Review Source: Movie Metropolis | Comment
John J. Puccio
Movie Metropolis

...remarkably two-dimensional, showing evidence of having been edited down from something more complex.

October 12, 2010 Full Review Source: Movie Metropolis | Comment
John J. Puccio
Movie Metropolis

To quote Clint Eastwood's Monco in For A Few Dollars More, you people need a new sheriff.

September 9, 2010 Full Review Source: Total Film | Comment (1)
Ken McIntyre
Total Film

Jonah Kex, Jonah Wrex, Jonah Hax, Jonah Kax, Jonah Thix, Jonah Crox, Jonah Sux.

September 8, 2010 Full Review Source: News of the World | Comment
Robbie Collin
News of the World

The film shows its comic-book origins in good ways (stylish settings) and bad (too many scenes end in a gigantic conflagration).

September 3, 2010 Full Review Source: Independent | Comment
Anthony Quinn
Independent

Whether it's the director's fault or the result of studio meddling, this is a mess of a movie that's been cut to pieces.

September 3, 2010 Full Review Source: Sun Online | Comment
Alex Zane
Sun Online

It just gets louder and more nonsensical as it progresses, with Fox shoe-horned into as many scenes as possible.

September 2, 2010 Full Review Source: Guardian [UK] | Comment
Phelim O'Neill
Guardian [UK]

Almost everything is wrong with it.

September 2, 2010 Full Review Source: Daily Mail [UK] | Comment
Christopher Tookey
Daily Mail [UK]
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It is what it is. Nothing too spectacular here. Just decent action. Okay acting. Just well what it is.

June 16, 2010
jmanard52
John Manard

Super Reviewer

When it comes to comics, I'm more a DC man (Vertigo) - until it comes to film adaptations that is. When reading my favourite comics, Transmetropolitan, The Boys, DMZ, 100 Bullets, The Invisibles...the list goes on, I think to myself 'They should totally make this into a movie' - then a film like Jonah Hex and Green

January 16, 2012
SirPant
Anthony Lawrie

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Jonah Hex Quotes

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    1. Adelman Lusk: Sure hope you succeed. I would surely hang if you didn't. And that's something I'd like to avoid.
    2. Quentin Turnbull: [shoots Lusk in the head] Consider it avoided.
    – Submitted by Matthew H (7 months ago)
    1. Burke: Tell me, what's it like to go through life with a face like that?
    2. Jonah Hex: Let me show you! [punches him]
    – Submitted by Matthew H (7 months ago)
    1. Jonah Hex: I'm about out of wise-ass answers, friend.
    – Submitted by Matthew H (7 months ago)
    1. Jonah Hex: Christ woman, how many men you seeing today?
    – Submitted by rob g (13 months ago)
    1. Jonah Hex: 5 coffins. Don't you need eight?
    2. Train Wood Tender: Cut him down!
    – Submitted by James W (13 months ago)

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