Jonah Hex Review


After the trailer came out, all the optimism was ripped out of me, especially when no reviews for it came out, that’s was a massive red flag.

Despite drastic changes to the character (the revenge plot and the supernatural ability to talk to the dead), the movie was just so damn bland. Nothing really stood out for me.

Josh Brolin was a great choice for Hex, the problem was he had little to almost nothing to work with it. Plus he must had something in his mouth to keep his jaw positioned with the scare makeup because you couldn’t understand a word he said at certain key moments. Malkovoich just walked through the movie with no sense of effort whatsoever.

After his performance as Lt. Archie Hicox in Inglorious Bastards and the set pictures, I was looking forward to Michael Fassbender as the tattooed, knife welding psychopath, Burke. But when he said in an interview that he be channeling Frank Gorshin’s Riddler, my thoughts were it was gonna be extremely over the top. Minus one moment where he pulled a Gorshin laugh, I was proven wrong.

Onto Megan Fox, they’d could’ve gotten anyone better for a prostitute (ironically enough since that’s picking up speed for her, ergo Jennifer’s Body). Like the Twilight series and the Chloe Sullivan worship, I just don’t see what people see in her (from what I can see is disillusionment). Yes she’s hot, but other then that she can’t act to save her life.

As I said, it was nothing special. Rental at best, but that’s saying very little.

Rating: 1