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Lilah (Megan Fox) and Jonah (Josh Brolin) hang around while figuring out their next move in the western thriller “Jonah Hex.” |
I know it’s only June, but it’s never too soon to start taking bets on the worst movie of 2010.
Which brings us directly to the leading contender so far, Jimmy Hayward’s jaw-droppingly bad, abysmally assembled supernatural western based on the DC Comics tale of a mutilated bounty hunter who can talk to dead people by touching them.
“Jonah Hex” clocks in at a breakneck 81 minutes, and I can only conclude that Hayward’s overactive editors went crazy with the editing software and lopped off all the parts that actually made sense, then deleted all of the graphic violence to qualify the film for a family-friendlier PG-13 rating.
That might explain why every time someone dies from a hatchet strike or a bullet, the camera cuts away and lets the shoddy sound effects carry the suggestion of violence.
“Jonah Hex” is so devoid of character development, functional plot and sense of style that not even Megan Fox about to pop out of her corset can make anyone care about what happens next — except seeing two words, “The End.”
Josh Brolin stars as Hex, who used to be a good soldier in the Civil War until he refused to carry out an order to burn down a hospital — with people still inside. (Read more…)