Jonah Hex (film)

Jonah Hex is a 2010 American postCivil War science fiction Western film loosely based on the DC Comics character of the same name. Distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures, the film is directed by Jimmy Hayward and stars Josh Brolin as the title character, Jonah Hex, and also stars John Malkovich, Megan Fox, and Michael Fassbender. The film was released on June 18, 2010. It was heavily panned by critics and became a major box office bomb.

In 1876, Hex rides into the town of Stunk Crick with four dead outlaws and demands his bounty, only to realize that the mayor and sheriff have no intention of paying, intending instead to kill Hex for his own bounty. Hex instead kills them and several sheriffs deputies, collects his bounty from the dead mayors pockets, and leaves. In another part of the country, Turnbull, alive and well, orchestrates the hijacking of a train carrying components of a classified weapon, slaughtering its military guards and civilian passengers alike. When informed of the theft, President Grant Aidan Quinn surmises that Turnbull is planning a terrorist attack for July 4, during the celebration of the American centennial. Grant instructs Army Lieutenant Grass Will Arnett to find Hex and hire him to stop Turnbull. Jonah goes to a brothel and spends the night with Lilah Megan Fox, a prostitute attracted to the disfigured man for more than just professional reasons. As Jonah prepares to leave the next morning, Grass men burst in and tell Jonah that Turnbull is still alive. They show him a captured thug from the train hijacking who told them Turnbull is headed northwest, before dying during interrogation. But Jonah briefly resurrects the man and learns that he has no knowledge of Turnbulls whereabouts the best he can do is tell who recruited him, exColonel Slocum Tom Wopat, who is running an illegal deathmatch pavilion in South Carolina, to the southeast.With the help of a corrupt Washington aristocrat, Adleman Lusk Wes Bentley, Turnbull tracks down and steals the remaining components of the weapon he is seeking. When Hex confronts Slocum in South Carolina, Slocum refuses to talk, sarcastically telling Hex to ask Turnbulls dead son, Jeb, where his father is. Jonah says that is a good idea, then overpowers Slocums men and throws Slocum himself into the ring, to be killed by his own fighters. After setting fire to the ring, he frees a dog being tormented by Slocums handlers, which starts to f

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