Jonah Hex Review

You can see the movie somebody intended. A disfigured bounty hunter who can speak to the dead, riding through a Reconstruction era America with a pair of horse mounted gatling guns, is a strong pulp premise, and Josh Brolin under the prosthetics is committed enough to have carried it. What reached cinemas is the wreckage of a reshoot. Whole relationships are established in voice over because the scenes establishing them no longer exist, motivations arrive as narration over animated panels, and the film cuts away from its own climax.

John Malkovich plays the villain as if he has read only the summary, and the plot around a nation destroying superweapon is resolved in about four minutes. Megan Fox is given nothing but a corset and a doorway to stand in. The supernatural element, which is the only thing distinguishing this from a hundred other westerns, is introduced and then forgotten. It grossed less than eleven million dollars against a budget many times that, and it is genuinely hard to argue anyone was cheated.