CBR: Jonah Hex: The CBR Review

**CBR News** · 06-18-2010, 08:28 AM

While "Jonah Hex" contains some genuinely great performances, the movie ultimately suffers from unnecessary CGI and fantastical elements, spiralling into a standard summer actioner conclusion.

Full article here.

**Kolymar** · 06-18-2010, 12:06 PM

Originally Posted by CBR News

While "Jonah Hex" contains some genuinely great performances, the movie ultimately suffers from unnecessary CGI and fantastical elements, spiralling into a standard summer actioner conclusion.

"Jonah Hex" is an odd duck of a movie. Its early scenes suggest a strange but contained stab at modernizing the Western for a wider audience, but its conclusion, in all it's overdone special effects glory, reflects the late decision to make it a summer tentpole release. While it has a stellar cast, its changes in tone ultimately lead to an unsatisfying visit to the Old West.

Ah, my fears have come true. What could have been a great western starring a wonderful character became... something else. I knew it when I first saw the trailer but still hoped for a miracle. Sigh...

**collectededitions** · 06-18-2010, 12:31 PM

Based on how fans rave about the Jonah Hex comics series, I thought I might give this a try. Based on the Newsarama and Comic Book Resources reviews, however, now I'll wait for the digital rental ...

**invasionforce** · 06-20-2010, 07:53 PM

I have never read a "Jonah Hex" comic, so I had no preconceived ideas of what this film should be about. Overall, while the movie is nothing profound, I found it to be reasonably entertaining. I thought the supernatural and steampunk elements were wedded in a fairly seamless fashion. The audience finds out early on in "Jonah Hex" that this film is not going to be a realistic portrayal of the Old West, so that allows us to suspend disbelief for whatever outlandish things may happen.

**hb695** · 06-20-2010, 10:57 PM

It was doomed the moment the screenwriters added the supernatural to. And they're the ones who wrote Crank. Crank, for god sake!!!

**hb695** · 06-20-2010, 11:04 PM

Double post

**hondobrode** · 06-20-2010, 11:38 PM

Jonah Hex is one of my favorite characters and one of the few characters I'll buy any book with him in it.

Having said that, I understand putting a supernatural spin on this to make it distinct from just another cookie cutter western.

It certainly wasn't a great movie, but it wasn't bad either. It was fair and I really liked John Malkovitch.

**Will.S** · 06-21-2010, 07:34 PM

Save that movie ticket money and just get the Jonah Hex Welcome to Paradise trade:

Or the more recent one:

And just wait for the movie to hit TBS or something.

**Dick/babs** · 06-21-2010, 08:05 PM

I hate that They Change why and How Jonah face was burn I always liked the Idea that the burn was a mark of the demon that was
given to him from the Apache After the sacred tomahawk battle

**brenticles** · 06-21-2010, 08:41 PM

Great Jonah Hex movies have been made...they all starred Clint Eastwood.

**mofo** · 06-22-2010, 06:06 AM

ANyone seen this yet? I'm only interested in the soundtrack (Mastodon!!); so if you've seen it let me know how good/bad it is

**brundlefly** · 06-22-2010, 10:01 AM

I was quite looking forward to this back when they did the initial casting (Brolin, Malkovich, Michael Shannon, Will Arnett...hell, even Fox, since her role was just "prostitute/eye candy"), but then I read about all the production turmoil and got pessimistic about what the final cut would end up like. And then those awful trailers started airing and the terrible previews/reviews came out.

Oh, well. File it next to Daredevil, Constantine, and the rest under 'Disappointing, Poorly Executed Comic Book Adaptations.'

Originally Posted by brenticles

Great Jonah Hex movies have been made...they all starred Clint Eastwood.

Truth. That's the style that I was initially hoping they were going for (or like 'The Proposition,' for instance), instead of adding in supernatural hokum and horse-mounted gatling guns.

**The Lucky One** · 06-22-2010, 11:41 AM

Originally Posted by brenticles

Great Jonah Hex movies have been made...they all starred Clint Eastwood.

Exactly. Give the Man with No Name a scar and a Confederate jacket and you're 90% of the way to Jonah.

-D

**Kiryu** · 06-22-2010, 11:52 AM

Yeah this looked as bad as Van Helsing was. I mean, when the people making the movie are desperate enough to cast Megan Fox, you gotta wonder how much they actually care? I have a stick I could duct tape some balloons onto for boobs and that'd lay out a better performance then she could.