Gunslinger Jonah Hex is appointed by President Ulysses Grant to track down terrorist Quentin Turnbull, a former Confederate officer determined on unleashing hell on earth. Jonah not only secures freedom by accepting this task, he also gets revenge on the man who slayed his wife and child.
Josh Brolin
Jonah Hex
John Malkovich
Turnbull
Megan Fox
Leila
Michael Fassbender
Burke
Will Arnett
Lieutenant Grass
Aidan Quinn
Ulysses S. Grant
Wes Bentley
Adleman Lusk
John Gallagher Jr.
Second Lt. Evan
Tom Wopat
Colonel Slocum
Jeffrey Dean Morgan
Jeb Turnbull
Lance Reddick
Smith
Julia Jones
Cassie
Michael Shannon
Doc Cross Williams
Rio Hackford
Grayden Nash
Luke James Fleischmann
Travis
David Jensen
Turnbull's Guard
Billy Blair
Billy
Sean Boyd
The Preacher
John McConnell
Stunk Crick Sheriff
Jackson Townsend
Stunk Crick Mayor
T.J. Toups
Stunk Crick Deputy
Ned Coleman
Stunk Crick Deputy
John Wirt
Stunk Crick Deputy
Ty Holland
Dumbass Outlaw
J.D. Evermore
Union Officer on Train
Scott Staggers
Union Letter Writer
Jimmy Hayward
Train Wood Tender
Michael Arnona
Train Engineer
Noel Murano
Surviving Soldier
Preston Acuff
Union Officer at Fed Reserve
Jonathan Watts Bell
Roughneck at Tent
Vincent Riverside
Roughneck at Tent
Stephen S. Chen
Old Chinese Guy
Joseph Billingiere
Old Cherokee (as Joe Billingiere)
Bill Martin Williams
Union Commanding Officer
Milos Milicevic
Burly Turnbull Guard
Eric Scott Woods
Turnbull's Lookout
Maureen Brennan
Mother on Train
Kennon Kepper
Boy on Train
Grayhawk Perkins
Medicine Man
Seth Gabel
Advisor
Bruce Barnes
Singer
Andy Ryan
Barber
Darin Heames
Bartender
Mitchell Amundsen
Customer
Matt Lasky
Dead Turnbull Guard
Rance Howard
Telegrapher
Antal Kalik
Huge Bar Patron
Michael Papajohn
Saber Guard
Tait Fletcher
Nasty Gunner
Paul Zies
Henchman #1
Brian Elerding
Lookout
Jake Radaker
Boy
Natacha Itzel
Jonah's Wife
Lisa Rotondi
The Lovely Prostitute
Veronica Russell
Red Haired Prostitute
Danny Cosmo
Grimey Local
Sean M. Sellers
Turnbull Man
Alexander Asefa
Peasant
Dennis Keiffer
Train Thug (uncredited)
Director
Jimmy Hayward
Characters
John Albano
Characters
Tony DeZuniga
Screenplay, Story
Brian Taylor
Screenplay, Story
Mark Neveldine
Story
William Farmer
January 11, 2014
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I have to admit that, apart from a couple of episodes, I never really read Jonah Hex when I was a kid. I did not like Western comics very much. Thus, I have no point of reference as to whether the movie is true to the original comic series. Maybe that is an advantage when seeing this movie in that I cannot get upset by the movie not being true to the original. Actually I am reasonably sure that this movie with it supernatural and steampunk influences are not entirely true to the original comic series.
Despite what seems to be the general opinion I quite liked this movie. The story is mostly comic book material but then this is a comic book character after all. I thought the story was good enough. There is plenty of quite enjoyable action in it. Josh Brolin is doing a good job of portraying the bad-ass Jonah Hex and John Malkowich is perhaps not managing to project the diabolical übervillain image that the Turnbull character is supposed to have but he is still not doing a bad job. Megan Fox is, well…Megan Fox. She is fitting the character and the movie fairly well though.
It is my understanding that the supernatural element of the movie is not something that can be found in the original comic series. It did not really disturb me. I am not sure that it added very much but it was okay.
I understand that people having read and being fans of the original comic series would be upset if the movie did not follow the original but I have to say that I do not understand why everyone else seems to bash it as well. It was an enjoyable hour and a half of fun action. Jonah Hex was the bad-ass that you hoped for. This movie was a much better “interpretation” of a comic series than the abysmal Green Hornet for instance where the hero was turned into a fumbling idiot.
For me personally, this movie was definitely on the upper half of the enjoyment-factor scale.