Jonah Hex (2010)
Average Rating: 3.4/10
Reviews Counted: 145
Fresh: 18 | Rotten: 127
Josh Brolin gives it his best shot, but he can't keep the short, unfocused Jonah Hex from collapsing on the screen.
Average Rating: 3.4/10
Critic Reviews: 32
Fresh: 2 | Rotten: 30
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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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
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Cast
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Josh Brolin
Jonah Hex -
John Malkovich
Quentin Turnbull, Turnb... -
Megan Fox
Lilah -
Michael Fassbender
Burke -
Will Arnett
Lieutenant Grass -
John Gallagher Jr.
Lieutenant Evan -
Tom Wopat
Colonel Slocum -
Jeffrey Dean Morgan
Jeb Turnbull -
Wes Bentley
Adelman Lusk -
Aidan Quinn
President Grant -
Luke James Fleischmann
Travis -
Rio Hackford
Grayden Nash -
Dave Jensen
Turnbull's Henchman -
Billy Blair
Turnbull's Gang - Billy -
Sean Boyd
Turnbull's Gang - Preac... -
John "Spud" McConnell
Stunk Crick Sheriff -
Jackson Townsend
Stunk Crick Mayor -
T.J. Toups
Stunk Crick Deputy -
Ned Coleman
Stunk Crick Deputy -
Jack Wirt
Stunk Crick Deputy -
Ty Holland
Dumbass Outlaw -
J.D. Evermore
Union Officer on Train -
Scott Staggers
Union Letter Writer -
Jimmy Hayward
Train Wood Tender -
Michael Arnona
Train Engineer -
Noel Murano
Surviving Soldier -
Preston Acuff
Union Officer at Fed Re... -
Jonathan Bell
Roughneck at Tent -
Vincent Riverside
Roughneck at Tent -
Stephen Chen
Old Chinese Guy -
Joe Billingiere
Old Cherokee -
Bill Martin Williams
Union Commanding Office... -
Milos Milicevic
Bully Turnbull Guard -
Eric Scott Woods
Turnbull's Lookout -
Maureen Brennan
Mother on Train -
John Kennon Pepper
Boy on Train -
L.W. Gray Hawk Perkins
Medicine Man -
Seth Gabel
Advisor -
Bruce "Sunpie" Barnes
Singer -
Andy Ryan
Barber -
Darin Heames
Bartender -
Mitchell Amundsen
Customer -
Matt Lasky
Dead Turnbull Guard -
Rance Howard
Telegrapher -
Antal Kalik
Huge Bar Patron -
Michael Papajohn
Saber Guard -
Tait Fletcher
Nasty Gunner -
Paul Zies
Henchman #1 -
Brian Elerding
Lookout -
Lance Reddick
Smith -
Jake Radaker
Boy -
Michael Shannon
Doc Cross Williams -
Julia Jones
Cassie
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All Critics (146) | Top Critics (32) | Fresh (18) | Rotten (130) | DVD (10)
At 81 minutes with credits, Jonah Hex feels crude, lazy and entirely perfunctory.
Top CriticThere's just one ingredient missing: anyone with a clue.
All three of you clamoring for a sequel to Wild Wild West have got your wish.
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.
Calling Jonah Hex a waste of time requires qualification, given the action flick weighs in at 82 minutes.
Director Jimmy Hayward fails to establish a viable reason for this movie to exist.
It's popcorn-chomping fun rooting for the soul-stripped Hex as he battles his way toward redemption and sweet, sweet payback.
It's a little too brief to get bored exactly, but it's certainly long enough to get frustrated at the lack of the essential ingredients to get the audience engaged in its story.
It's a standard Western revenge tale dressed up with supernatural elements.
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.
When it works, which it does quite often, it's one of the better comic book adaptations of recent years.
Seems almost calculated meticulously to suck the life out of its audience as much as humanly possible...
The film is simply too brief, too befuddled and too delirious to do the comic book legend justice.
An awful excuse for cinema that ultimately fails in nearly every way possible.
Clocking in at a mere 81 minutes, it feels like an eternity. Read the comic.
...too short, too prosaic, and too shallow. At best, it's a harmless diversion. (Blu-ray Edition)
...remarkably two-dimensional, showing evidence of having been edited down from something more complex.
To quote Clint Eastwood's Monco in For A Few Dollars More, you people need a new sheriff.
Jonah Kex, Jonah Wrex, Jonah Hax, Jonah Kax, Jonah Thix, Jonah Crox, Jonah Sux.
The film shows its comic-book origins in good ways (stylish settings) and bad (too many scenes end in a gigantic conflagration).
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.
Audience Reviews for Jonah Hex
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- Jonah Hex: War and me took to each other real well. It felt like it had meaning. The feeling of doing what you thought was right. But it wasn't. Folks can believe what they like, but eventually a man's gotta decide if he's gonna do what's right. That choice cost me more than I bargained for.
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- Adelman Lusk: Sure hope you succeed. I would surely hang if you didn't. And that's something I'd like to avoid.
- Quentin Turnbull: [shoots Lusk in the head] Consider it avoided.
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- Burke: Tell me, what's it like to go through life with a face like that?
- Jonah Hex: Let me show you! [punches him]
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- Jonah Hex: I'm about out of wise-ass answers, friend.
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- Jonah Hex: Christ woman, how many men you seeing today?
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- Jonah Hex: 5 coffins. Don't you need eight?
- Train Wood Tender: Cut him down!
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