Review Tuesday: Jonah Hex (2010)

In an age when comic book movies are turning into valuable franchises, the western-style bounty hunter with one foot in both realms from DC Comics, JONAH HEX was tapped for the big screen. 

A Confederate  General wants to destroy the Union even after the the end of the Civil War. Jonah Hex is called in to thwart the plan.

Jonah Hex (Josh Brolin) was a  Confederate officer until General Quentin Turnbull (John Malkevich) are former Confederates who have a death wish for each other. But when normal channels weren't coming up with information on Turnbull's evil plan, Hex was the best tool to use against his arch-nemesis. He's found right off the bounty hunting trail in the arms of a harlot named Lilah (Megan Fox). They fill him in and he's hot on the trail. 

The movie then turns into a trail of twists and turns as Hex closes the net on Turnbull, while facing his own demons.

I would call this a movie that may have been a victim of bad timing. Audiences have been inundated comic book movies over the last decade. Add to that the Megan Fox flap after being ejected from the Transformers franchise for calling Michael Bay a Nazi. People just weren't willing to give this a chance. In doing so they gave up the chance to see a pretty impressive western / sci-fi fusion. The cast if spectacular, Josh Brolin, Josh Malkevich, Michael Fassbender, Will Arnett, and the delicious Megan Fox to name a few.

Very entertaining and worth watching if you catch it on TV or feel like renting it.

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