Jonah Hex is a movie that has faced a lot of heckling before it has even been released. Most of the bad praise has attacked the runtime, the sense of direction and the acting. Weirdly enough, all of those are exactly what I found as the bullets inside the soon-to-be dead corpse of Jonah Hex. 

Josh Brolin stars in this revenge-tale based on the DC comic books of the same name. Haunted by the destruction of his family at the hands of Quentin Turnbull (John Malkovich), Jonah Hex did not die but instead was cursed with the moments of death he experienced. Armed with the ability of bringing the dead back to life with his touch, Jonah searches for Turnbull to quench his thirst for revenge. He soon hears that Turnbull faked his death and is planning the destruction of not just Hex, but entire continents. With the help of girlfriend/prostitute Lilah (Megan Fox) and Lieutenant Grass (Will Arnett), Hex works with the government to ensure the death of Quentin Turnbull. 

Acting is my forte in any aspect but I am pretty sure that your accent isn't supposed to change in the matter of minutes. In the scene introducing Turnbull, Malkovich speaks in perfect english with no southern draw at all. Not too bothersome for me, even though I find his acting skills incredibly redundant (Watch him in Changeling, then Burn After Reading and tell me there's a difference). However, the next scene with Malkovich has his character with a completely different drawl than before. He somehow manages to carry this accent for the rest of the movie, minus a few lines, and pulls it off. Barely. Even Megan Fox somehow finds a way to create some form of acting, albeit the same type of character she has played many times before: Attractive with fists. 

Aside from the acting, problems with this film lie with the direction. The movie starts as a story of revenge between Hex and Turnbull, but soon turns into an action movie that puts Hex at the front seat to save the world which is in the hands of Turnbull. Instead of having any form of a back story for the characters, Hayward slides the audience pictures of confederate soldiers killing men and shows Hex as a normal-faced soldier. Hayward also uses the technique of flashbacks to attempt an explanation of what Hex was like before the massacre of his family and face at the hands of Turnbull. This seems as a major lack in the plot sinse the runtime had plenty of room to be stretched, coming in at an astoundingly short 81 minutes. This includes the end credits. 

The one thing I did find incredibly remarkable was the character, Burke, played by Michael Fassbender. Fassbender presents a maniacal villain with a taste for chaos. Sporting an irish accent and a songbook of irish melodies, Burke will stop at no end to feed his taste for blood. Blowing up trains, juggling lit dynamite and flipping swords the size of machetes, Fassbender creates a villain that tops not only that of Malkovich but many of the villains shown in the past few years of cinema. This character is almost alone worth seeing Jonah Hex. 

Sadly, all of the problems Jonah Hex faces outweigh the incredible acting of Michael Fassbender and result in the movie being one of the worst movies of the past year. All About Steve, watch your back: Jonah Hex is here.