Jonah Hex
Jonah Hex is another graphic DC comics anti hero brought to life on the silver screen. Hex (Josh Brolin) who communes with dead people is a facially disfigured Civil War veteran and current bounty hunter with a bounty on his own head. He suffered a near death experience at the hands of Quentin Turnbull (John Malkovich) and his ensuing recuperation with the help of a local first nation’s tribe left him with the odd necrosis sixth sense. Hex and the merciless Turnbull rode together during the Civil War until Hex killed Quentin’s son Jeb (Jeffrey Dean Morgan). As a result Turnbull forced Jonah to watch him wipe out the Hex clan and then left Jonas barely alive and so severely scarred that he’s destined to live his life haunted in so many ways. In time Quentin succumbs to his own megalomania and his attempt to have the South rise again seem unstoppable to US President Grant (Aidan Quinn) without the aid of an unwilling Jonah Hex. Unnecessarily tossed into the mix is Lilah (Megan Fox - but no argument here!) loosely based on the comic character Tallulah Black. Look for other minor roles featuring Tom Wopat and Toronto’s Will Arnett. True to the comics, Nitro burning revenge is the ongoing theme of this incredibly short but incendiary fable, however it’s sadly sanctimonious in that although the action takes place 150 years ago it’s contemporized by veiled references to terrorists brandishing weapons of mass destruction that threaten to destabilize US power.