This viewer is crazy about film originality. Every so often, a flick is so bizarre in plot and imagery that it sears our imaginations and makes us stand up and say, "Wow!" Such is Jonah Hex.
Consider for a moment a protagonist with a face so disfigured you cannot stand to look at him. Consider too a man who can temporarily resurrect, and talk to, the dead. Now add beautiful Megan Fox to the mix, throw in the acting genius of John Malcovich, and take a basic revenge plot that becomes iconic in power, and you've got Jonah Hex.
Josh Brolin plays the outcast, the creepy hero, with brilliance. He impressed us as Harvey White in Milk. He was fantastic as the greedy, money-seeking victim of a killer in No Country for Old Men. But in Jonah Hex, Brolin, with grizzled flesh and the mouth of a monster, outdoes himself. He is every bit the living Frankenstein who rides the old west, consulting the dead, as he pursues the man who destroyed his family.
Where did the writers get such a strange plot? Who came up with such an offbeat, eerie story? Tough to answer....but suffice it to say that once you've seen this film, you'll have a very different view of the avenging angel!
Want to have fun? Return to the days of the Civil War and watch Jonah take on evil in the world. It's an experience you won't soon forget.
Don't know this one. What year was it released? Sounds intriguing and weird enough to give it a look. I'd bet son, Greg, would like it, too.
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