No. 14 Jonah Hex (2010) 48 of 100
If ever a film was less than the sum of its parts it would have to be Jonah Hex. There is clearly a decent budget in play and a veritable galaxy of stars on show – for your money you get Josh Brolin, John Malkovich, Michaels Fassbender and Shannon, Megan Fox, Gob Bluth, Lance Reddick and even one of the ‘Dukes of Hazzard’, yet you end up with this complete turd of a movie. It had ‘troubled production’ written all over it, with go nowhere scenes and a voice over to cut through some of the narrative blocks. Even with what appears to be brutal editing and a short 72 minute run time you still end up with something that makes little or no sense, no characterisation and a plot with more holes than a colander factory. Brolin plays Hex, a DC comics character who is coming out of the Civil War having fought for the South. “You never believed in slavery” someone says, apropos of nothing, to let us know he’s a good guy really. He had an unfortunate tangle with Malkovich’s baddie wh...