Saturday, April 11, 2015

Jonah Hex (2010)

  Everything you heard about this movie is true.  It sucks.  I don't know how they managed to con John Malkovich and Josh Brolin into appearing in this.  Michael Fassbender is clearly just having a grand old time and Megan Fox...well, bless her heart.

After his family was burned to death by his mortal enemy, Jonah Hex (Josh Brolin) was left for dead but saved by a local American Indian tribe.  He gained the ability to speak to the dead, which he uses to pursue criminals as a bounty hunter.  His only real human interaction is with a surly prostitute named Lilah (Megan Fox).  But when President Grant (Aidan Quinn) informs Jonah his enemy, Quentin Turnbull (John Malkovich), is alive and planning to build a "nation-killer" weapon, Jonah springs into action.

This was based on a DC Comics property but just couldn't garner the same kind of interest as more well-known characters.  It probably sounded great on paper.  It's essentially The Crow:  Civil War edition with two Oscar nominees on board, a director team known for crowd-pleasing action, T&A courtesy of Megan Fox, and a family-friendly PG-13 rating.  Add all of that together and you get a wannabe supernatural Western, a bunch of bloodless deaths, and a collection of stock-paper characters.  A for effort, D for execution.

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