DC's answer to Marvel's Ghost Rider, Jonah Hex is a western supernatural hero who's half Clint Eastwood (man with no name bounty hunter) and half James West, government agent under U. S. Grant. Can animate the dead, who make for good witnesses and has one foot in the grave himself, so can handle a bullet or two. Very little bounty hunting. Very loud soundtrack that swells to let you know that what's on the screen's exciting, in case you can't tell for yourself. Megan Fox is Hex's love interest--she seems to go for those disfigured tragic types who run out of snappy comebacks just half past the movie. Megan Fox fans may enjoy all the bare thigh and torturous corset cleavage, but it's all PG, so don't get your hopes (or anything else) up. John Malkovich is the typically evil villain set on world destruction rather than domination. You see, Hex killed his family and so he killed Hex's family in return, so everyone is out for revenge and the innocents get killed off like so many flies. Liked the supernatural angle. The James West angle needed more work, but overall I'd recommend this in a double-bill (I saw it with the final installment of Shrek). Or wait for the dvd. Either way, it's a good popcorn killer flick.
AC
P.S. Did I mention HOW LOUD IT WAS?!
AC
P.S. Did I mention HOW LOUD IT WAS?!
the previews for this movie look horrible. I can't imagine it actually making any money. I'm sure it'll be out on DVD in about 3 months.
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I agree with Sigokat, the previews for this movie made it look horrible. And I was fan of the Jonah Hex comic as a kid. I will wait for it to come out on DVD and then I probably won't rent it until I run out of other stuff to rent.
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For some reason the previews made me think that it was Unforgiven with a supernatural twist. Megan Foxx can't act - she's outclassed by her co-stars even in the previews. So I just couldn't develop any interest for it. Maybe some night, when I can't sleep...
Why do I always do this to myself???
LolaRennt Wrote:For some reason the previews made me think that it was Unforgiven with a supernatural twist. Megan Foxx can't act - she's outclassed by her co-stars even in the previews. So I just couldn't develop any interest for it. Maybe some night, when I can't sleep...
That's a pity.
Jonah Hex is a truly fine character. But, sadly, truly fine comic characters don't often translate to the big screen.
For example, in the old AVENGERS. the marriage of the Scarlet Witch and the Vision is touching. You are rooting for the mutant gal Wanda and the android.
On the screen. it might seem bizarre.
(The couple's finest moment?--I'd say the great 3 book series,
The Avengers vs. Count Nefaria. The Vision is reactivated, if that's the term, when the Avengers from Iron Man to Thor to Wonder Man are getting their asses kicked by the evil and super-charged count. The android hovers high overhead, increases his mass to the utmost and...falls. That's the Witch talking first, and Wonder Man second.
"Vision! VISION!"
"Wanda, let me look first..."
"No...I am well, my wife..."
"Oh God, how I've missed you..."