...is the basic purpose for see it. because it is one of many films about revenger and used as vehicle for not bad special effects. familiar name of actors, crumbs of classic western, few eccentric ideas. and it is enough for an easy show for everyone. nothing surprising, nothing too high. only fire, a crazy plan, John Malkovich and Alan Quinn as decent president Grant. and , sure, memories. about lonely revengers, not good, not bad, with terrible experiences in past and obscure future, invincible but good pellow for large sort of pains. so, fun. in large slices.

DC Comic movie adaptation of "Jonah Hex" is one mess of a movie. A production budget of 47 Million Dollar put down to lowest corner of a Warner Bros. lot dumpster. Screen writing pair Mark Neveldine & Brian Taylor gladly moved on as first-choice directors in favor for the movie "Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vegeance" (2011), which did not really improved the situation for the partially innovative directors of "Crank" (2006) on the emerging domination of Marvel comic book adaptations with "Iron Man" (2008-2013) and "Captain America" (2011-2016) as front-runners. They made room for director Jimmy Hayward, who had at no time the picture under control, even though the promising ensemble cast starting from Josh Brolin in the title-given role accompanied by actress Megan Fox, who together share probably the most entertaining moments in "Jonah Hex"; a movie that glorifies booze, whoring and any acts of violence in a Neo-Western scenario with PG-13 rating, received through the MPAA butcher shop and green-lit WB executives, which brought the running time down to 75 Minutes (excluding the end credits), not worth any box office ticket; to actors John Malkovich and Michael Fassbender as double-team nemesis of anti-hero "Jonah Hex", who clearly had fun with their role variations, yet at no time were pressured by the director to make this picture a 90 Minute thrill-ride with no cheap looking animated flash-forward fill-ins and clear cut hardcore R-rated showdown on an unless promising battleship destroyer location, missing any passion for the original graphic novel content, where the main character, a former confederate soldier of the U.S. civil war, revived my Native Americans, who has the gift of awakening the dead by touching their skin and delivering punchline as "Cut myself shaving.", on getting asked on his disfiguring facial scar origins before sending the questioner pistol-shot to hell.© 2017 Felix Alexander Dausend (Cinemajesty Entertainments LLC)

I'm no big fan of comic book adaptations, but even by the standards of the genre, JONAH HEX is a terrible film. I should have guessed that the taint of Neveldine & Taylor (responsible for directing CRANK: HIGH VOLTAGE and GHOST RIDER: SPIRIT OF VENGEANCE) was on this one, as it has the same bargain basement quality, hyperactive child look and feel. Even if they didn't direct (that job went to a Pixar animator, of all people) the film still looks like one of their efforts.The story is about a scarred, supernatural gunslinger looking for revenge on the guys who murdered his wife. Josh Brolin plays it gruff and miserable, and is just about passable; given that he's virtually unrecognisable beneath the makeup, I guess he gets away with it. The supporting cast aren't so lucky. John Malkovich hams it up as the bad guy, and as for Megan Fox, well she appears to have the kiss of death in terms of the quality of the films in which she stars. The only person who comes away with any credibility is Michael Fassbender, whose henchman villain is more menacing than the chief bad guy.Elsewhere, the film is a mess of poorly-shot action and endless CGI. 90% of the thing is shot in near pitch blackness so you can't really see what's going on, and you easily miss cameoing stars like Michael Shannon and Jeffrey Dean Morgan. The action is an awful, over-directed mess, with an emphasis on boring CGI explosions and the like, and as for the story...well, what story? Give this mess a miss at all costs.

"Dirt likes dead, dead likes dirt, simple as that," we learn in "Jonah Hex," a film well-suited to conversing on the subject of death given its own lifeless nature.Based on a 1970s comic-book character which was inspired by spaghetti westerns, "Hex" makes its film debut with Josh Brolin in the title role, a facially branded bounty hunter who sets out to avenge his murdered family and stop plans by a former Confederate general, Quentin Turnbull (John Malkovich), to destroy Washington, D. C. during a Centennial celebration.Weighing in at 73 minutes, minus end credits, "Jonah Hex" still feels too long, with a padded romantic interest for Jonah in Megan Fox's prostitute character and even a canine companion. Director Jimmy Hayward tries to update the 1800s vibe with allusions to 9/11 involving suicidal Confederate terrorists, which comes off offensively trite and anachronistic."Strike enough fear into people's hearts and eventually they'll tear down the government that failed to protect them," is how Turnbull describes his strategy, which includes blowing up trains and towns full of unarmed civilians."Hex's" propensity for death and destruction over logic and story is a big part of the problem here. An introductory sequence has Hex take on a town of treacherous lawmen who decide they'd rather kill Hex than pay the bounty he earned. Hex shoots them down, which is fine, but then blows up the town for good measure. What's a few innocent civilians in the name of good special effects?A cheapjack vibe hangs over the entire production, from Hex's underbaked backstory to his left-field rescue by mute Indians to his ability to talk to the dead and get useful information. Brolin is typically stolid and decent in his title role, and the make-up people came up with a convincing prosthetic for the strip of flesh that runs down Hex's mouth, but his gravity seems wasted here.The script by Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor (credited here as Neveldine/Taylor, either out of affectation or anonymity) traffics in cliché. While murdering Hex's family, Turnbull speechifies about how it serves Hex right. As a super villain, Turnbull undertakes his nation-destroying plan under an umbrella of secrecy, even though he leads a small army prone to shooting off their weapons whenever he makes one of his bloodthirsty addresses.Malkovich's coolness is almost enough, but too much of the business around him is just silly, especially Michael Fassbender's goony turn as a maniacal Irishman with a love of explosives. "Hex" is ultimately a movie not about characters but special effects, or in the case of Fox, character as special effect.The idea of crossing the time-honored cowboy-film genre with the more recent craze for comic-book movies seems worthy in theory, but both genres depend on deeper characterization than "Jonah Hex" is either willing or able to deliver. I have no problem with a film that has the living conversing with the dead; I do when it's as hard as it is here to tell which is which.