Watched “Jonah Hex” the other day… It’s at best a “popcorn-movie”, by which I mean that you see it and then you forget it…
It keeps you entertained for a while, but doesn’t add anything of value to the genre.
“Jonah Hex” is a movie based on a DC comic. It takes place in a Western setting, and follows the story of Jonah Hex, a man with a dark past that almost died, but somehow survived, and gained the ability to talk with the dead… during the movie, he has to foil a plan to overthrow the newly-borned US government. While the premise is fine, but to be honest it doesn’t hold up the movie.
I never read the comics, so I can’t speak on how well/badly the movie reflects it, but the movie itself seems to be just a bunch of action sequences cobbled up together with some cheesy storyline. The action itself is well done, dynamic, all that you’d expect from Hollywood. The filler sequences are also what you’d expect in a Hollywood movie, thin threads to keep the audience entertained until the next action sequence (or to show off the mediocre Megan Fox… don’t get me wrong, she’s gorgeous, but a terrible actress).
The basic problem of the movie is that the “gimmick” (talking to the dead) really doesn’t shine in it, and after failing at that, the movie transforms into a “Wild Wild West”-kind of movie…
Bottom-line, the movie is entertaining, the visual style is interesting, but the story is paper-thin and the character doesn’t stand out as it should (and as I guess it does in the comics)… I’m giving it a 7/10.