Last night, I went to an advanced screening of Warner Bros/Legendary Pictures/DC Comics adaption of JONAH HEX, starring Josh Brolin, John Malkhovic and Megan Fox. I didn't have high expectations going into the film, but went cause well it was free and had nothing to lose and didn't have to pay for it. So here is a brief review of it:
First, I am going to disappoint you guys here, Megan Fox does NOT get naked, sorry to bust your bubble on that.
The movie was surprisingly good, not great, but not bad. Josh Brolin was pretty good as Jonah Hex, though you can tell that he was having problems talking sometimes cause of the prosthetic makeup, and sometimes I did feel like he was trying to talk with that scratchy voice like Batman does. John Malkhovic and Michael Fassbender were pretty good as the villians in the film, Malkhovic always plays a pretty good villian anyways (there have been movies where he hasnt been a villian btw) and he is pretty ruthless as Quinton Turnbull. As for Megan Fox, well we all know shes playing a hooker, but we all know she is there for eye candy, thats all I will say about that. The one main thing about this film I didnt like, it was less than 90 minutes long, and the budget was 80 million, thats almost 1 million a minute for the film. That was my main flaw about it it was way too short for a live action comic adaption. Animated films are usually 90 minutes long and most comedies are as well, but I was hoping for at least 1 hour 40 minutes, but I just read the running time is 85 minutes and when I checked my time when the movie was over I was like WHAT!
Also this movie had a western feel of Ghost Rider in a way, so I feel Jonah Hex is DC's version of Ghost Rider.
One thing I don't understand is why WB is releasing it on the same weekend as Toy Story 3, which will easily get 100-120 million this weekend. I felt this movie was more of a Feb. or Mar. or even a Aug-Oct. release, not in the middle of summer release.
All in All, I give it a B-, not too terribly bad, but if you go see it, try to matinee it before you take all your kids to see Toy Story 3 this weekend.
Leave your comments below and if you check it out, tell me what you think.