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Jonah Hex - 1/2 star

This movie is a prime example of how rubbish comic book adaptations can be. Instead of getting an old-fashioned, gritty Western we get a sadly boring mixture of concepts from both “Ghost Rider” and “The Wild Wild West”, which certainly isn’t a good thing.

In “Jonah Hex”, we meet the scarred bounty hunter himself Jonah Hex (Josh Brolin “The Goonies”). Jonah Hex is a rough and tough cowboy, who can also talk to the dead. Hex is then found by the U.S military, who have a price on his head, so that they can make a deal so that for his freedom Hex must take a vicious terrorist named Turbull (John Malkovich “Con Air”) as well as have the chance to settle a personal score. Along with an ex-prostitute (Megan Fox “Transformers”) Hex must stop Turbull from unleashing hell.

None of the characters are interesting. Jonah Hex isn’t a particularly nice character so you don’t really see him as much of a hero. Megan Fox is bland as I feel she always is and the character isn’t interesting anyway. Malkovich is put to poor use as the villain in “Jonah Hex”. The rest of the characters are rubbish too.

I don’t care if you’ve got a big budget but if you can’t put it to good use nobody cares and that’s what happened with “Jonah Hex”. From its lacklustre action sequences to its boring plot to its idiotic concepts “Jonah Hex” is easily one of the worst comic book movies I’ve seen, which is a real shame because I can see real potential in his character. What “Jonah Hex” needs to do is leave behind some of its concepts and become like a real Western movie becomes I’ve seen other interpretations of the character that use that basis and are far better than this horrid piece of rubbish.

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