Jonah Hex is yet another of many comic book/graphic novel films to fill the screen this year. Josh Brolin and Megan Fox star in this action western comic story about Jonah Hex, a civil war soldier turned bounty hunter after a man named Turnbull kills his family and brands him alive. From his near death experience Jonah is able to communicate with the dead by bringing them back to life. Soon it turns out that Turnbull faked his own death and Jonah Hex is hired by the government to stop him before he uses a powerful weapon that was never fully completed. And somewhere in the middle of it all Jonah Hex finds time to spend with his love interest, the prostitute, Lilah.
This film is flawed really from beginning to end. The characters are one dimensional, the plot highly cliche, and there is just not enough to any of the story. This has to be one of the shortest comic book movies I have ever seen, running at less than an hour and a half, and it feels like there needed to be more depth which could have been found in a longer movie. When events occur they happen quickly and then end. When supporting characters enter they quickly disappear and we might see them again in a short scene or two. Anyone other than the antagonist, protagonist, and love interest seem to have really any meaning. And of course there is the irritation that ever time Megan Fox shows up on screen her face looks like it was airbrushed on screen.
On the pro side, Jonah Hex has potential to be an interesting character. The action is also fun at times and the gadgets entertaining, though overall it is all quite over the top. It's the kind of movie that if you turn off your mind you could enjoy it. It is the completely mindless action popcorn flick. Sometimes they're fun. In the case of Jonah Hex, it's sort of fun. But even the short action sequences can't save this film but everything else it's lacking. Even The Losers, a previous film this year based off a DC comic, was much more fun. And of course this film is also a western. A completely and ridiculously over the top action western.
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