Review of Jonah Hex (2010) by Stephen B — 21 Mar 2011

Attempting to stand out upon massive amounts of ancient superhero celluloid, Jonah Hex mostly fails to deliver the superhero genre's prowess we adored to glance upon its predecessors, along its obliviously less alluring gimmicks, tedious clichéd script and rigid leads.

Jonah Hex conveyed you back to the old western era surfacing in the Stars and Stripes. Jonah Hex (Josh Brolin) was a hero on his pride. A civil hero, his life was gratifying along a family completing the gift he hoped. Not for long, the life he has imagined was banished in the cruel, vicious hands of Quentin Turnbull (John Malkovich) bursting Jonah's family in flames commencing scarring an initial on Jonah's face gluing the nightmare. Since that tragedy, the disfigured Jonah evolved into a bounty hunter eyed as a criminal to the town's police still scarred with premonitions of the massacre. The pill to cure up the hole inside Jonah's heart was Lilah (Megan Fox) a prostitute confers the pill through a sexually pleasuring him sadly was not effective enough to heal. Excessively adhering inside him, a solution was found through Lieutenant Grass (Will Arnett) requesting his service to capture Turnbull, bestowing Jonah a chance on avenging the past. Turnbull has structured a plan which may endangered the United States and as all has backed down, Jonah Hex didn't.

Jonah Hex attempts to confer the audience with materials we adored from former superhero celluloid, sadly deemed far below our expectations. DC Comics renowned for such historical legends (Superman, Batman) fully fails for this one. The script was the few deserved the blame. The script was just clichéd, bland, and less alluring unlike its predecessors along a few plot holes unresolved affecting the film wholly. Jonah Hex doesn't deliver the fun we adored from experiencing previous encounters, plainly tedious along its inception till its peak. The concept similar to Marvel's The Punisher yet it failed to level or maximizes its quality to the 2004 antihero flick. The action sequences gratified in its trailer but fail to stash much in the final cut. A few of the Western-style action were available but were too no avail to lure. The gimmicks supplied were less alluring including its nonsensical and silly action sequences swiftly disrupted through its lame, cheap Z movie visual effects. The cast were none too assist able to rescue the blandness of this film. Brolin were none too comfortable and dubious in portraying the lead, Malkovich looked confused and less charismatic as the villain, and Megan Fox should be schooled for acting classes as her acting qualities were just too invisible. The only positive succeeded to be conveyed here was the original score from the rock band, Mastodon which was edging dynamically, macho, and differs from such western scores samples.

Jonah Hex was truly the failure in 2010. It was far below the audience's expectation and even its A- list stars (not include Megan Fox) fails to reincarnate this celluloids from its filthy dust.