Jonah Hex: As bad as the scar on his face

Former Confederate soldier turned bounty hunter Jonah Hex is a scarred man, not only physically but mentally as well. He is haunted by the memories of his murdered family and the man who killed them (a guy named Turnbull). When the Union Army ask Hex to hunt down Turnbull, he jumps at the chance for revenge.

You feel bad for Josh Brolin (a good actor in his own right), because he was given so little to work with script and story wise. He tried to make Hex a likeable (or as likeable as a bounty hunter could be) character but the lack of a cohesive story and total absence of character development truncated that and the audience was never given the chance to start to root for him in his quest for vengeance. Not only was the story sloppily hacked together from the remnants of other comic book film adaptations but the action was lacking, which made the running time of about an hour and fifteen minutes feel like an eternity. And what of the other major actors in the film, could they save it mediocrity? Sadly not, John Malkovich had it on cruise control as the baddie Turnbull, Will Arnett was on the screen for only about two seconds and Megan Fox showed why people should start thinking that Michael Bay was a genius for firing her from Transformers 3.

Hollywood has once again succeeded in turning a very cool anti-hero from the comic book world into a clichéd, one-liner saying joke of a character. Jonah Hex is an awful mess.

Grade: D-