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- 2010
- PG-13
- Warner Bros.
- 1 h 21 m
- 2010
- PG-13
- Warner Bros.
- 1 h 21 m
Summary Jonah Hex is a scarred drifter and bounty hunter of last resort, a tough and stoic gunslinger who can track down anyone... and anything. Having survived death, Jonah's violent history is steeped in myth and legend, and has left him with one foot in the natural world and one on the "other side." His only human connection is with Leila, wh...
Directed By: Jimmy Hayward
- 2010
- PG-13
- Warner Bros.
- 1 h 21 m
- 2010
- PG-13
- Warner Bros.
- 1 h 21 m
Jonah Hex
33
4.1
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Summary Jonah Hex is a scarred drifter and bounty hunter of last resort, a tough and stoic gunslinger who can track down anyone... and anything. Having survived death, Jonah's violent history is steeped in myth and legend, and has left him with one foot in the natural world and one on the "other side." His only human connection is with Leila, wh...
Directed By: Jimmy Hayward
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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 32 Critic Reviews
33
6% Positive
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
44% Mixed
14 Reviews
14 Reviews
50% Negative
16 Reviews
16 Reviews
Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 32 Critic Reviews
33
6% Positive
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
44% Mixed
14 Reviews
14 Reviews
50% Negative
16 Reviews
16 Reviews
Nutty? Maybe. But a pungent blast of the cinema du bonkers is just what this summer's multiplexes need after weeks of bromide-stuffed retreads that are as smug about their lack of originality as packs of teen girls who dress exactly alike. Mock Jonah Hex if you must, but you can't say you've seen a lot of other supernatural Westerns lately.
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 143 User Ratings
4.1
22% Positive
31 Ratings
31 Ratings
24% Mixed
35 Ratings
35 Ratings
54% Negative
77 Ratings
77 Ratings
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 143 User Ratings
4.1
22% Positive
31 Ratings
31 Ratings
24% Mixed
35 Ratings
35 Ratings
54% Negative
77 Ratings
77 Ratings
A fun western with a stellar performance from Josh Brolin and John Malkovich.
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Its movies like this that just go to prove how many sheep there are in today's societies. I mean, the only negative is really some poor scripting. But everything else about the movie demands a decent score both here and on IMDB. Josh definitely made this movie work, the music was good and everything else just craps all over so many indie movies that people rate up just because they're indie its just prejudice extreme for people to be pouring so much negative over what amounts to a very entertaining flick. I really don't see how the 2015 mad max is really so much better than this movie, they're really very similar and if one deserves raves reviews so should the other.
Be very careful about movie review rating. It's mostly lies.
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It's based on some DC Comics characters, which may explain the way the plot jumps around. We hear a lot about graphic novels, but this is more of a graphic anthology of strange occult ideas.
Jonah Hex may not be the longest 81 minutes you ever spend, but it might well be the most tedious.
It's a challenge to take a comic-book adaptation that stars Josh Brolin, John Malkovich and Megan Fox and drain nearly all the fun out of it. Jonah Hex is one of those movies that combines a certain amount of being ridiculous on purpose with a great deal of pseudo-profound silliness.
The best part of Jonah Hex is Josh Brolin on a horse. Especially when he's not saying anything, just moseying into or out of town. Too had he never moseys into a better movie.
Every once in a while, a film limps into theaters so stitched together, it's a wonder it doesn't rip apart in the projector. Jonah Hex is such a film.
Oh, the fun never ceases, john malkovich should play more villians in future, no matter how wooden anyone else is *cough*BROLIN*cough* he always saves almost anything he's in, like nicholas cage, now that i think about it...
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Jonah Hex is a scarred drifter and bounty hunter of last resort, a tough and stoic gunslinger who can track down anyone... and anything. Having survived death, Jonah's violent history is steeped in myth and legend, and has left him with one foot in the natural world and one on the "other side." His only human connection is with Leila, whose
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While it's not as bad as some reviews might lead you to believe, it still fails because of a poor screenplay. All the more disappointing to me when I learned that Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor (the guys behind the brilliantly bonkers Crank) wrote it. It's a shame they couldn't make more of what is very good source material. Despite the poor screenplay, I made it through the full 80 or so minutes simply because it's fairly well directed (at times the film looks beautiful) and the action set-pieces do entertain, especially a brilliant but brief train robbery in the opening minutes. It's the bits inbetween the action that hold Jonah Hex down. That, and some pretty godawful CGI, which to be fair, isn't terrible throughout the film, but very noticeable when it is. There is a good film in here somewhere, and at times we can catch a glimpse of it, but in the end this really feels like a missed opportunity.
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Michael Fassbender steals the show in this awful movie as an evil henchman while Josh Brolin struggles to be the reluctant antihero. Brolin plays a former Confederate officer who rises from the dead and gets all kinds of powers in the bargain. He seeks to exact revenge on the bad guy, Turnbull, played by John Malkovich. To up the stakes Turnbull, also a former Confederate Generall, intends to destroy the Union.
I wonder where we have seen that before...
This movie reminds me of Wild Wild West. It has the same kind of story, it has also good actors - not counting Will Smith - and is equally disastrous. The main difference is that Wild Wild West became what it wants to be, even if it was bad at it, but Jonah Hex became nothing, and was equally bad at that as well. On the one hand, this movie seems to go for a grim mood like Sin City. Sin City uses contrasts to underscore the personalities and the action. The comic itself is even done in black and white to highlight the contrasts. It is powerful, it is grim and it works.
On the other hand, Jonah Hex goes for nonsense. The villain plots to destroy the United States with a super cannon that fires nukes as shells and the president needs the help of Hex to stop the evil guy. And how about the two Gatling guns strapped to a horse? These are the trappings of a comedy.
And there you have a major problem. These two opposites tend to cancel each other out. It is just hard to be grim and funny at the same time. Hell, some movies have just issues with being one or the other. Like Wild Wild West; it wants to be funny but it isn't.
The greatest sin, however, is that there is no attempt to make us care. It is telling that the person I liked most was Fassbender's evil henchman and he was just in the movie for a few minutes. The ultimate challenge for any story is that it should make you care. And this movie fails to do so.
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A soulless supernatural western flick that is gracefully short, but lacks focus, or sophistication with a plot that focuses more on attention to style rather than substance.
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Awards
Razzie Awards
• 2 Nominations
Houston Film Critics Society Awards
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Alliance of Women Film Journalists
• 1 Nomination
