I had planned to see it, but I heard so little that was good, I decided I would rent it.
Nothing wrong with a good action thriller as long as it’s well-made and not trying to overreach. I’ll probably go check this out when it gets to the cheap theatres.
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I’m pretty sure I won’t see this movie: I don’t get to see many movies these days. It’s a shame, too, because I’d love to see a really well-made weird west movie; closest I can think of is Near Dark, and that’s not all that close at all. (Wild Wild West isn’t anywhere near close, if that’s what you’re thinking: emphasis is on “really well-made”).
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Now see, I can’t tell if that last one is you being embarrassed, or if you’re assuming the position.
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Saw this Monday night, and I have to say, I was pleasantly surprised. I agree with the previous poster about the techy weapons being too much, but they’re also pretty minor to the over all action. I think they mostly put them in there so Hex can be friends with the guy who made them, who’s black, and exists primarily to demonstrate that Hex isn’t a racist, despite being a former Confederate soldier. The gatling guns show up in the first ten minutes, and aren’t seen again, and the semi-automatic dynamite-shooting pistol crossbows are employed for a similarly brief period. They could have cut them entirely, and not altered the plot one iota. And they kind of detract from the character, since it would have made him seem that much more badass if he could kill these people with plain old six-shooters instead of going all James Bondy on them. Still, like I said, they make up less than ten minutes of screen time total.
I do wish they’d played up the supernatural a bit more. At the beginning of the film, Hex is under the impression that the villain has been dead for some years. Turns out the guy faked his death, or something - they don’t really explain why he’s not really dead. I’d hoped that it would turn out to be something similar to what happened to Hex: that he had died, but had come back somehow, and had his own mojo going for him, but no such luck. Plus, there’s the matter of Chekov’s Hellhounds:
When we first see Hex speak to the dead, towards the end of the conversation, there’s the sound of baying hounds, and Hex explains that they’re hellhounds, come for the soul of the bandit he’s interrogating. I was fully expecting the final climactic battle to involve hellhounds in some way, but they’re never mentioned again. Seemed like cheating to me, to talk about hellhounds in act 1, and not produce them by act 3.
Bottom line, it’s a good, brainless action movie. Worth a matinee, but not much more than that.
Yeah, but the dream sequence is basically him and John Malkovich beating the crap out of each other, so it’s all good.
It’s a shame this wasn’t made 20 years ago. I totally see Bruce Campbell in the role.
That or he accidentally saw The Rawhide Kid movie instead.
How much skin does Megan Fox show?
Not enough to make her your sole reason for watching.
She was one of those curiously modest prostitutes.
We did get to see a quick bit of Megan’s freakish thumbs.
I loved it – I thought the entire cast was amazing, other than Megan Fox (who is too plastic to be believable as a Wild West saloon whore). Jonah Hex had much more believable sexual tension with his dead friend Jeb Turner than with her – I totally expected Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Josh Brolin to kiss goodbye at one point.
This is the most effort I’ve seen Malkovich put into a movie in years.
Her costume. Some nice thigh action but no real nudity.
Compare with the comics version of the same character.
Haha. Seriously? What is this… the summer of mounted Gatling guns? I’m talking about the movie kickass for those of you that don’t know.