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Jonah Hex is one hell of a weird Western
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03 September 2010
Jimmy Hayward’s screen version of the popular DC comic looks like an attempt to make a spaghetti Western in America and combine it with a supernatural element. It is weird as hell and almost impossible to follow as a narrative — but the production values are something to see.
Josh Brolin plays Hex, a scarred bounty hunter with remarkable powers, which include old-fashioned machine guns attached to each side of his poor horse’s flanks. His sole human connection is Megan Fox’s busy whore. All hell is melodramatically let loose when the army offer him freedom from various warrants on his head to track down Turnbull (John Malkovich), the terrorist who mutilated him with a branding iron and now wants to rule the world with some sort of early atom bomb.
Sergio Leone would, I’m afraid, swivel in his grave.
Jonah Hex
Cert: 15
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