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Jonah Hex

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Jonah Hex reviews
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3.1 User Score:

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Movie Info

Genre(s): Action  |  Drama  |  Horror  |  Suspense/Thriller  |  Western

Written by: Mark Neveldine
Brian Taylor

Directed by: Jimmy Hayward

Release Date:
Theatrical: June 18, 2010

Running Time: minutes, Color

Origin: USA

Summary

RATING: PG-13 for intense sequences of violence and action, disturbing images and sexual content.

Starring Josh Brolin, John Malkovich, Megan Fox, Will Arnett, and Michael Shannon

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 life in a brothel has left her with scars of her own. But Jonah's past is about to catch up with him when the U.S. military makes him an offer he can't refuse: in exchange for his freedom from the warrants on his head, he must track down and stop the dangerous terrorist Quentin Turnbull. But Turnbull, who is gathering an army and preparing to unleash Hell, is also Jonah's oldest enemy and will stop at nothing until Jonah is dead. (Warner Bros.)

What The Critics Said

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75

New York Post Kyle Smith

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.

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70

Movieline Stephanie Zacharek

At times Jonah Hex carries whispery echoes of The Searchers and Sam Peckinpah.

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58

Christian Science Monitor Peter Rainer

Actually, it’s hard to have any thoughts while watching Jonah Hex – the cranium-crushing soundtrack takes care of that.

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50

New Orleans Times-Picayune Mike Scott

Built on spasms of explosive summertime action interspersed throughout a vacant shell of an origins story, animator-turned-director Jimmy Hayward's first stab at directing a live-action film ends up feeling like one great, big missed opportunity.

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50

Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert

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.

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50

Orlando Sentinel Roger Moore

Brolin is so damned good in the saddle, in the hat and in the part that a half-sober viewer could half forget how half-arsed this movie he’s starring in is.

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50

Boston Globe Wesley Morris

The only thing sadder than Jonah Hex is what appears to have happened to his movie.

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50

Chicago Tribune Michael Phillips

Here's how you know Josh Brolin has become a movie star: Jonah Hex may not be much with him, but without him? Perish the thought. Perish it, throw an ax in its heart, then burn it to a crisp.

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50

The New York Times Manohla Dargis

Though it has bad word of mouth, Jonah Hex is generally better, sprier and more diverting than most of the action flicks now playing, “The A-Team” included.

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50

ReelViews James Berardinelli

Never boring. It is, however, frustrating.

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50

Los Angeles Times Betsy Sharkey

Brolin's intermittent voice-over narration proves to be the most powerful stuff, with the rest curiously sputtering.

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42

St. Petersburg Times Steve Persall

Jonah Hex isn't abrupt by design but by desperation.

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40

The Hollywood Reporter Michael Rechtshaffen

It admittedly starts off great guns, but all too quickly it becomes apparent that the big-screen arrival of the supernatural Western DC Comics series Jonah Hex"is firing loud, empty blanks.

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40

Variety Justin Chang

The film's noisy, slam-bang approach and lack of imagination in all nonvisual departments will keep it from rounding up a fresh generation of thrill-seekers.

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40

New York Daily News Elizabeth Weitzman

If all you want is a bullets-and-bombs B-movie, you'll get your money's worth: Somehow, Hayward makes 82 minutes feel like hours.

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38

Washington Post Michael O'Sullivan

Jonah Hex may not be the longest 81 minutes you ever spend, but it might well be the most tedious.

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38

Philadelphia Inquirer Steven Rea

A mercifully fleet and lamentably uninteresting adaptation of the DC Comic about a war-weary Confederate soldier.

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38

USA Today Claudia Puig

The opening frame of Jonah Hex should say: "Caution: Made expressly for the male teen demographic. Not suitable for anyone of any age who prefers movies with coherence, an original plot or characters they give a hoot about."

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33

Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum

The star is done in by the deathless mediocrity of the production, an assemblage of random camera shots, messy editing, redundant scenes, and witless dialogue as haphazardly stitched together as the flesh on Jonah Hex’s face.

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30

Arizona Republic Bill Goodykoontz

Jonah Hex somehow manages to waste the talents of Josh Brolin, John Malkovich, Michael Fassbender, Will Arnett, Aidan Quinn and Jeffrey Dean Morgan in a story that combines vengeance, the occult and an Old West war on terror (really).

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30

Austin Chronicle Marc Savlov

The resulting film makes Sam Raimi's "The Quick and the Dead" look like a stone cold neo-Western thoroughbred.

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30

Boxoffice Magazine Mark Keizer

Conceptualized and re-conceptualized, written and re-written, shot and re-shot, cut and re-cut, the final product is the world's longest short film.

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30

LA Weekly Nick Pinkerton

Bracingly inept.

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30

Chicago Reader Cliff Doerksen

The result, messily directed by Jimmy Hayward, 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.

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30

Salon.com Andrew O'Hehir

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.

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25

The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Stephen Cole

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.

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25

San Francisco Chronicle Amy Biancolli

Visually, Jonah Hex is an orgy of overstatement: rapid edits, garish colors, harsh light.

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25

Premiere John DeVore

Jonah Hex tries to hedge its bets too much, and the result is a movie that probably won’t please the few faithful with Jonah Hex bedsheets, nor fans of mindless summer action flicks.

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25

Rolling Stone Peter Travers

Jonah is fated to ride alone. Don't make the mistake of keeping him company.

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20

Time Out New York Keith Uhlich

All three of you clamoring for a sequel to "Wild Wild West" have got your wish: Jonah Hex--an adaptation of the DC Comics series about a Western antihero with otherworldly abilities--gives that Fresh Prince–starring disaster from 1999 a run for its wasted money.

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0

The Onion (A.V. Club) Keith Phipps

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.

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What Our Users Said

The average user rating for this movie is 3.1 (out of 10) based on 23 User Votes

Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Dave gave it a6:
Was what I expected from a minor comic book character movie. I knew nothing about Jonah Hex, but found his unique back story intriguing, if not slightly confusing. There was not much imagination used in the film. It could/should have been better, especially with the acting talent involved. It's Ghost Rider without the motorcycle.

Jeff S. gave it a0:
A disgrace to the America cinema.

Paul gave it a0:
You would be better off to stay at home and watch some paint dry than to watch this thing that calls itself a film. When will Hollywood stop casting Megan Fox and start using a woman who can act! Also, I hope they didn't pay the writer for the scribble that they called a screenplay, which should only be honered with a golden razzie.

Gerald S gave it a7:
I work at a movie theater; saw it free. Had to see if it was as "bad" as the critics claimed. I'm pretty new to this "graphic novel" concept but I'd have to say the running time of 1 hour and 20 minutes captivated me from start to finish. As as veteran movie enthusiast (I'm over 60), I thought it surprising original. A good cast, supernatural elements , and "high tech artillery", it's not your father's western. Admittedly, the playback levels were a bit high ( controllable by the projectionist) but the sound design added much realism to this new "genre". I certainly liked it a lot more than most of the over-hyped big studio productions released over the last two weeks. "Thumbs up" for me !

Movie Lover gave it a5:
Anonymous why did you give it such a bad rating you omited that in your review we at least I would like to know why it was so bad because I was really looking forword to this movie.

Vermin gave it a1:
Megan Fox needs to be banned from all forms of media.

Ken B gave it an8:
Great movie! Tons of action from beginning to end. Good script. (I'm glad I sawJonah Hex, and didn't pay attention to the reviews, I wonder if the critics even saw the movie.) Fun movie! Better than anything else out there!

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