Jonah Hex - The definition of mediocre 

'Jonah Hex' is one of those films where it's hard to find much bad to say about it, but then again there's not that many major plus points about it either.  The Marvel Shared Universe was just starting out and, in doing so, setting the trend of 'superhero' movies.  I know 'Jonah Hex' is hardly your average hero who wears tights and fights super-villains, but he's sort of in there.

DC bring to the big screen a sort of sci-fi/western mish-mash where the titular character's family gets killed by a bad man (John Malkovich).  That's all the 'character development/motivation' the antagonist gets.  He's just bad.  Therefore, when Hex is left for dead and brought back to the world of the living by Native Americans, he finds he can now talk - literally - to dead bodies when he touches them.  And he has to track down and kill Malkovich while he's at it.

It's one of those dark, 'gritty' superhero movies (of which DC tends to do more of) and therefore it contains more killing, bloodshed and adult situations.  However, no matter how hard it tries, it never seems to be anything more than average.  If you've seen one superhero movie then you can predict everything that's going to happen beat for beat.  Hero.  Heroine.  Villain who develops super-weapon to wipe out innocent civilians.  It's all there.

Josh Brolin does his best with what he's given as 'Hex' but is pretty one dimensional and has done better before and definitely after (especially in the comic book world with 'Thanos' etc).  Megan Fox is the obligatory 'love interest' and is normally given a hard time over her acting ability.  For her haters, 'Jonah Hex' gives them plenty of ammunition to say she's miscast.  However, she's hardly given much to work with and is as average as everything else.

The scenes where Hex touches a dead body and it comes - sort of - back to life for him to question are kind of cool, but are few and far between and probably could have been taken out all together and no one would be any the wiser.

It's the sort of film you can have on in the background, nip out to get a cup of tea, or check your phone a few times and you'll still know everything you need to about the story.  I didn't hate it.  It's quite watchable, but you probably won't remember much about it in a few days.

6/10 May just keep you awake if Freddy Krueger was haunting your nights