'Jonah Hex' Blasted by Critics for Being Short, Ugly

The film is barely an hour long.

The new movie Jonah Hex follows a scarred, vengeful drifter in the Old West who hunts down criminals for money, while also running from the law himself. But now he has someone even more dangerous to run from -- movie critics.

Jonah Hex has a new bone to pick with film critics that are calling it a severe "waste of talent."

The sci-fi westerner (based on the comic book of the same name) stars Josh Brolin as the title character, a scarred vigilante and bounty hunter who is offered a way out of the warrants on his head by tracking down the evil Quentin Turnbull (John Malkovich).

The film, which only runs about 70 minutes long, also stars Megan Fox as a gun-slinging prostitute with an agenda of her own, and a whole cast of baddies looking to bring down Hex and uncover his tortured, supernatural past.

And so far, critics are slapping Hex around.

David Germain of the Associated Press calls the film "So short, and so bad, you cringe at the thought of how awful whatever ended up on the cutting-room floor must be."

The Orlando Sentinel's Roger Moore is a bit nicer, but he comes to the same conclusion. "Jonah Hex is a good performance and a few good lines buried in a script whose authors should do a little time in writer’s hell for scribbling it," he says.

In the end, the film just seems to be a big steamy pile of... bad filmmaking. "Take the intriguing premise of a punk-rock Western based on a graphic novel," says Bill Goodykoontz of the Arizona Republic, "populate it with a good cast, add striking visuals and you come up with...a real mess."

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