Film

Jonah Hex

Cert: 15

Description: Legendary drifter and gunslinger Jonah Hex has cheated death so many times he now lives in a hinterland between the corporeal world and the 'other side'. The US government offers Jonah a deal he cannot reject: they will cancel all of the bounties on his head if he agrees to hunt down and capture terrorist Quentin Turnbull. However, Turnbull is marshalling an army with which he intends to unleash hell upon the Earth.

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Dir: Jimmy Hayward.

Cast: Michael Fassbender, John Malkovich, Will Arnett, Wes Bentley, Megan Fox, Michael Shannon, Josh Brolin

Country: US.

Year: 2010.

Duration: 81mins

Jonah Hex is one hell of a weird Western

By Derek Malcolm
3 Sep 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.