We are bringing you here one of many Jonah Hex reviews, it’s not very important news. I am posting it just for you to read something what someone said about the movie.
“Jonah Hex” is a bloody mess of a movie, based on a comic book that seems at once too short and too long. The plot, such as it is, resembles an episode of “The Wild, Wild West,” only much darker and drearier.
Spoilers may follow.
Jonah Hex, the title character played by Josh Brolin, joins the Confederate Army, not so much out of a love for slavery or a desire to disunite the Union, but out of a sense of rebellion and orneriness about being told what to do by the Yankees. But, when he is told to burn down a church by his commanding officer, Quentin Turnbull (played by John Malkovich), he rebels, switches sides, and betrays his unit.
Later, Turnbull burns Jonah Hex’s family alive and then mutilates his face to remind him forever about who had done it. Hex is healed by Crow Indians, a process that leaves him with the ability to converse with the dead.
Fast forward about 11 or 12 years later, and Jonah Hex is a bad-tempered bounty hunter with a price on his own head. Nevertheless, President Ulysses Simpson Grant, played by Aiden Quinn, decides that Hex is the one man who can stop Turnbull, long thought dead, but actually alive, when said villain gets his hands on a weapon of mass destruction and threatens to blow up Washington D.C. in the Dr. Loveless manner just in time for the Centennial.
Megan Fox plays Lilah, what people in the era would call a “sporting lady,” who apparently can sleep with Hex without being too nauseated by the experience. She can also handle a knife and gun, and looks fetching half dressed in 19th Century garb.
There is a lot of cool action in “Jonah Hex,” including a battle on an ironclad in the middle of the Potomac River. But, that does not counteract the movie’s main flaw, which is that it was sloppily and hastily put together. The two things that “Jonah Hex” needed were a rework of the script to make the story more coherent and an editor who did not use a buzz saw as an instrument.
The talent was certainly there to make a great movie. Unfortunately, someone made the decision to rush it out half-finished so that, instead, “Jonah Hex” became a stunted, albeit pretty at times, failure. It could have used another 15 minutes or so setting up the back story and maybe cut five or so minutes of repetition.
Darin Miller of Big Hollywood suggests that “Jonah Hex” can be viewed more like a television show than a full-length movie.
“As a comic book adaptation, the beginning of the film plays out episodically like the beginning of a TV show, with cartoon images showing the transition in Jonah’s life from a soldier to a man whose near-death experience gave him the power to talk to dead people.
“The other TV-type element is the film’s length. Running between 70 and 80 minutes, it feels like just another adventure in the life of a well-established protagonist.”
Wait, therefore, until it comes on cable.
