Jonah Hex (2010)

The U.S. military makes a scarred bounty hunter with warrants on his own head an offer he cannot refuse: in exchange for his freedom, he must stop a terrorist who is ready to unleash Hell on Earth.

Director:

Jimmy Hayward

Writers:

Mark Neveldine (screenplay), Brian Taylor (screenplay),

Stars:

Josh Brolin, John Malkovich, Megan Fox

2 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Josh Brolin	...	Jonah Hex
John Malkovich	...	Quentin Turnbull
Megan Fox	...	Lilah
Michael Fassbender	...	Burke
Will Arnett	...	Lieutenant Grass
John Gallagher Jr.	...	Lieutenant Evan
Tom Wopat	...	Colonel Slocum
Michael Shannon	...	Doc Cross Williams
Wes Bentley	...	Adleman Lusk
Julia Jones	...	Cassie
Luke James Fleischmann	...	Travis
Rio Hackford	...	Grayden Nash
David Jensen	...	Turnbull's Henchman
Billy Blair	...	Turnbull's Gang - Billy
Sean Boyd	...	Turnbull's Gang - Preacher

Storyline

During Grant's presidency, Jonah Hex is a remorseless bounty hunter. In the Civil War, he was a rebel whose honor put him afoul of a Confederate general, Quentin Turnbull, who murdered Jonah's family while Jonah watched. As a result of the ordeal, Jonah's face is disfigured and he can talk with the dead. After staging his own death, Turnbull, with a group of rebel stalwarts, hatches a plan to bring the Union to its knees. Grant wants Hex to stop it. While the nation readies to celebrate Independence Day, Hex and an unlikely ally have little time to stop Turnbull and his weapon of mass destruction.

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Plot Keywords:

independence day | death | terrorist | bounty hunter | military | 

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Taglines:

Revenge Gets Ugly

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Genres:

Action | Drama | Fantasy | Thriller | Western

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated PG-13 for intense sequences of violence and action, disturbing images and sexual content

Details

Official Sites:

Official Facebook Warner Bros. [us]

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

18 June 2010 (USA)

Also Known As:

Jona Heks

Filming Locations:

Bayou Gauche, Louisiana, USA

Box Office

Budget:

$47,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend:

$5,085,000 (USA) (18 June 2010)

Gross:

$10,539,414 (USA) (6 August 2010)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Warner Bros, Legendary Pictures, Mad Chance

Technical Specs

Runtime:

81 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital DTS SDDS

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Even the dog had to spend an hour in the make-up chair.

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Goofs

The Washington Monument is shown as almost complete. In 1876 the Monument was still only one third complete and construction had been stopped since 1858. Addition construction was authorized during the Centenial but actual construction did not resume until 1879.

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Quotes

[first lines]
Jonah Hex: War and me took to each other real well. It felt like it had meaning. The feeling of doing what you thought was right. But it wasn't. Folks can believe what they like, but eventually a man's gotta decide if he's gonna do what's right. That choice cost me more than I bargained for.

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Crazy Credits

When the Warner Bros logo appears, its accompanying theme is played in a western riff.

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Connections

Featured in The Tonight Show with Jay Leno: Episode #18.69 (2010)

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Soundtracks

"The Banjo Song"
Written and Performed by Seasick Steve
Courtesy of Warner Music U.K. Ltd./Rykodisc
By Arrangement with Warner Music Group Film & TV Licensing

User Reviews

Gets progressively worse as it goes along.

Starts off as an excercise in mediocrity and cliché but manages to sink even lower as the film's (thankfully short) running time comes to a close.

What a shame. The original Neveldine and Taylor script (which I only read half of because I didn't want to spoil myself silly) was actually quite good. Episodic in the way that Hex gets himself into bizarre jams (much like the original 70's comic) on the road to the film's Macguffin.

One such jam being he runs into a town where the occupants have all been lobotomized.

Unfortunately, none of that makes it to the final film and although a lot of the film was cut down I don't believe they filmed even 90% of what was in that script.

What remains of the N & T script is the Gatling gun sequence (albeit without the gore) and the arena sequence (heavily reworked and, ultimately, uninteresting).

There are one or two shots where Hex is riding through the countryside at night. I'd like to know if any other IMDBers were having trouble making out what was going on in those shots. Poorly lit.

Have cinematographers forgotten to lens a night scene in westerns? All "day for night" jokes aside, this is terrible. I never thought I would see such an eye strainingly dim scene in a big budgeted Hollywood picture.

Shameful.

As for the charisma vacuum that is Megan Fox, she's surprisingly substantial in her introductory scene but falls into familiar territory, for her (empty expression/lifeless), shortly after.