Jonah Hex
Warner Bros. Pictures | Release Date: June 18, 2010 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
33
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Generally unfavorable reviews based on 32 Critic Reviews
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2
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14
Negative:
16
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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
0
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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