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Mock Jonah Hex if you must, but you can't say you've seen a lot of other supernatural Westerns lately.
—Kyle Smith New York Post
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...generally better, sprier and more diverting than most of the action flicks now playing...
—Manohla Dargis New York Times
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...it?s hard to have any thoughts while watching Jonah Hex ? the cranium-crushing soundtrack takes care of that.
—Peter Rainer Christian Science Monitor
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...may not be much with him [Brolin], but without him? Perish the thought. Perish it, throw an ax in its heart, then burn it to a crisp.
—Michael Phillips Chicago Tribune
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The movie is not precise in its geography. Most of the location filming was in Louisiana, which is not named, perhaps because that might make it hard to explain its vast deserts and dusty frontier town.
—Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times
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The opening frame of Jonah Hex should say: "Caution: Made expressly for the male teen demographic. Not suitable for anyone of any age who prefers movies with coherence, an original plot or characters they give a hoot about."
—Claudia Puig USA Today
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...its negative aspects staggeringly outweigh its positive ones...
—Chris Cabin filmcritic.com
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...takes a gothic, moody, western-inspired comic book, and eliminates all traces of subtlety in the awkward transition to the big screen.
—Luke Y. Thompson E!
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...a DC Comics transmogrification into mega-action mess...
—Betsy Sharkey Los Angeles Times
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...an assemblage of random camera shots, messy editing, redundant scenes, and witless dialogue as haphazardly stitched together as the flesh on Jonah Hex?s face.
—Lisa Schwarzbaum Entertainment Weekly
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...appears to be making itself up as it goes along.
—Nick Schager Slant Magazine
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It admittedly starts off great guns, but all too quickly it becomes apparent that the big-screen arrival of the supernatural Western DC Comics series Jonah Hex is firing loud, empty blanks.
—Michael Rechtshaffen Hollywood Reporter
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...a numbing pyrotechnic display in service of a perfunctory revenge saga...
—Justin Chang Variety
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It must have been hard labor for Josh Brolin to get in the makeup chair for hours to capture the disfigured look of DC Comics anti-hero Jonah Hex. Due respect to the talented Brolin, it's much harder to sit in a theater and watch this crapfest.
—Peter Travers Rolling Stone
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...too bad the movie didn't indulge its spookier, supernatural elements more, instead of relying on action movie cliche.
—John DeVore Premiere
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...the 81 minutes (including credits) of Jonah Hex footage that made it to the screen look like something assembled under a tight deadline, and possibly under the influence.
—Keith Phipps Onion AV Club