Jonah Hex
Warner Bros. Pictures | Release Date: June 18, 2010 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
33
METASCORE
Generally unfavorable reviews based on 32 Critic Reviews
Positive:
2
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14
Negative:
16
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75
New York PostKyle Smith
Nutty? Maybe. But a pungent blast of the cinema du bonkers is just what this summer's multiplexes need after weeks of bromide-stuffed retreads that are as smug about their lack of originality as packs of teen girls who dress exactly alike. Mock Jonah Hex if you must, but you can't say you've seen a lot of other supernatural Westerns lately. Read full review
70
MovielineStephanie Zacharek
At times Jonah Hex carries whispery echoes of The Searchers and Sam Peckinpah. Read full review
58
Christian Science MonitorPeter Rainer
Actually, it's hard to have any thoughts while watching Jonah Hex – the cranium-crushing soundtrack takes care of that. Read full review
50
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
It's based on some DC Comics characters, which may explain the way the plot jumps around. We hear a lot about graphic novels, but this is more of a graphic anthology of strange occult ideas. Read full review
50
Orlando SentinelRoger Moore
Brolin is so damned good in the saddle, in the hat and in the part that a half-sober viewer could half forget how half-arsed this movie he's starring in is. Read full review
50
Boston GlobeWesley Morris
The only thing sadder than Jonah Hex is what appears to have happened to his movie. Read full review
50
Chicago TribuneMichael Phillips
Here's how you know Josh Brolin has become a movie star: Jonah Hex may not be much with him, but without him? Perish the thought. Perish it, throw an ax in its heart, then burn it to a crisp. Read full review
50
The New York TimesManohla Dargis
Though it has bad word of mouth, Jonah Hex is generally better, sprier and more diverting than most of the action flicks now playing, "The A-Team" included. Read full review
50
ReelViewsJames Berardinelli
Never boring. It is, however, frustrating. Read full review
50
Los Angeles TimesBetsy Sharkey
Brolin's intermittent voice-over narration proves to be the most powerful stuff, with the rest curiously sputtering. Read full review
50
New Orleans Times-PicayuneMike Scott
Built on spasms of explosive summertime action interspersed throughout a vacant shell of an origins story, animator-turned-director Jimmy Hayward's first stab at directing a live-action film ends up feeling like one great, big missed opportunity. Read full review
42
Tampa Bay TimesSteve Persall
Jonah Hex isn't abrupt by design but by desperation. Read full review
40
The Hollywood ReporterMichael Rechtshaffen
It admittedly starts off great guns, but all too quickly it becomes apparent that the big-screen arrival of the supernatural Western DC Comics series Jonah Hex"is firing loud, empty blanks. Read full review
40
VarietyJustin Chang
The film's noisy, slam-bang approach and lack of imagination in all nonvisual departments will keep it from rounding up a fresh generation of thrill-seekers. Read full review
40
New York Daily NewsElizabeth Weitzman
If all you want is a bullets-and-bombs B-movie, you'll get your money's worth: Somehow, Hayward makes 82 minutes feel like hours. Read full review
40
EmpireJames White
Isn't one "Wild Wild West" enough? Okay, so Jonah Hex didn't come with the same expectations, but it's still an object lesson in how not to adapt a comic book. A crushing disappointment. Read full review
38
Philadelphia InquirerSteven Rea
A mercifully fleet and lamentably uninteresting adaptation of the DC Comic about a war-weary Confederate soldier. Read full review
38
USA TodayClaudia Puig
The opening frame of Jonah Hex should say: "Caution: Made expressly for the male teen demographic. Not suitable for anyone of any age who prefers movies with coherence, an original plot or characters they give a hoot about." Read full review
38
Washington PostMichael O'Sullivan
Jonah Hex may not be the longest 81 minutes you ever spend, but it might well be the most tedious. Read full review
33
Entertainment WeeklyLisa Schwarzbaum
The star is done in by the deathless mediocrity of the production, an assemblage of random camera shots, messy editing, redundant scenes, and witless dialogue as haphazardly stitched together as the flesh on Jonah Hex's face. Read full review
30
Arizona RepublicBill Goodykoontz
Jonah Hex somehow manages to waste the talents of Josh Brolin, John Malkovich, Michael Fassbender, Will Arnett, Aidan Quinn and Jeffrey Dean Morgan in a story that combines vengeance, the occult and an Old West war on terror (really). Read full review
30
Boxoffice MagazineMark Keizer
Conceptualized and re-conceptualized, written and re-written, shot and re-shot, cut and re-cut, the final product is the world's longest short film. Read full review
30
L.A. WeeklyNick Pinkerton
Bracingly inept. Read full review
30
Chicago ReaderCliff Doerksen
The result, messily directed by Jimmy Hayward, begins affably enough as a random slew of Leone-style squint-a-thons and shoot-outs but then loses it way in a dopey, anachronism-happy sci-fi plot. Read full review
30
SalonAndrew O'Hehir
It's a challenge to take a comic-book adaptation that stars Josh Brolin, John Malkovich and Megan Fox and drain nearly all the fun out of it. Jonah Hex is one of those movies that combines a certain amount of being ridiculous on purpose with a great deal of pseudo-profound silliness. Read full review
30
Austin ChronicleMarc Savlov
The resulting film makes Sam Raimi's "The Quick and the Dead" look like a stone cold neo-Western thoroughbred. Read full review
25
PremiereJohn DeVore
Jonah Hex tries to hedge its bets too much, and the result is a movie that probably won't please the few faithful with Jonah Hex bedsheets, nor fans of mindless summer action flicks. Read full review
25
Rolling StonePeter Travers
Jonah is fated to ride alone. Don't make the mistake of keeping him company. Read full review
25
San Francisco ChronicleAmy Biancolli
Visually, Jonah Hex is an orgy of overstatement: rapid edits, garish colors, harsh light. Read full review
25
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Stephen Cole
The best part of Jonah Hex is Josh Brolin on a horse. Especially when he's not saying anything, just moseying into or out of town. Too had he never moseys into a better movie. Read full review
20
Time OutKeith Uhlich
All three of you clamoring for a sequel to "Wild Wild West" have got your wish: Jonah Hex--an adaptation of the DC Comics series about a Western antihero with otherworldly abilities--gives that Fresh Prince–starring disaster from 1999 a run for its wasted money. Read full review
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The A.V. ClubKeith Phipps
Every once in a while, a film limps into theaters so stitched together, it's a wonder it doesn't rip apart in the projector. Jonah Hex is such a film. Read full review
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