Standalone Adaptations · Elseworlds
Jonah Hex
A scarred bounty hunter with a link to the dead hunts a terrorist in the Old West.
Nothing after the credits
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Can you skip Jonah Hex?
Yes, on a first watch. It is self-contained, and nothing in the main DC story depends on it. There is nothing after the credits to catch up on either. In chronological order, reaching it takes about 8h 42m of essential viewing across 4 titles. Show only the DC essentials.
Skippable, and it is the shortest film on this page for a reason. Eighty-two minutes including credits is not a running time, it is a salvage operation: the production was extensively reshot with a new ending, and roughly a third of what was shot is reported to have been removed.
What remains is incoherent. A disfigured Confederate deserter who can speak to the dead pursues a terrorist with a superweapon through a post-Civil-War America, and the film cuts between flashback, animation and present action without establishing any of them. Characters appear, state a relationship and are gone.
Josh Brolin is good under heavy prosthetics and plainly in a different film from everybody else. John Malkovich plays the villain at low energy. Megan Fox is given a part with no function beyond being endangered, in a film that has no room to endanger her.
A western is a genuinely good register for DC's lesser-known properties and nothing here demonstrates it. It lost a great deal of money and the character has not returned.
DC guides
Where it sits in the DC order
- Release order
- #15 of 52
- Chronological order
- #15 of 52
- Released
- 18 June 2010
- In-universe era
- Standalone Adaptations
What to watch next
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