Darklord Dave
Super Freak
- Joined
- Sep 3, 2005
- Messages
- 19,029
- Reaction score
- 80
Saw it today. First weekend on a Sunday morning - I was the only person in the theater.
One has to wonder who thought this was a good idea for a movie. I'm a huge DC fan, but Hex isn't even on my radar. There are a lot of obscure DC characters that might have been interesting, but I guess Westerns are fairly cheap to make so they went this way. The fact that they had to invent supernatural powers for the character to make him interesting doesn't bode well for the entire endeavor.
I'm guessing they tested this film a lot and went back and reedited and tried to make it more audience-friendly, but failed in every possible way. The origin is at the beginning and a lot of it is told in comic book form - not the way to open up a comic book to endear it to movie audiences. But it is a cheap way to get a lot of story in on the cheap. There's a scene later in the film that's not a flashback and is supposed to be the bridge moment in the film. It's live-action and seems like it was part of the origin at one point in the editing but they moved it when they realized they needed a beat in the movie to begin the third act. This point has some interesting visuals with crows but is not really explained at all. Which is unusual for this movie because it's name should be "Talky Exposition." A scene with Aidan Quinn as President Grant and Will Arnett as a serious General is almost laughable in how much really, really bad dialogue it has just getting the explanations in.
Fox is as bad as you'd expect and it seems they had to do some CG makeup on her - her closeups are extremely smooth and unrealistic looking. Her character seems like it was tacked on for no good reason except to cast her. Malkovich is walking through his role in his "generic bad guy" mode - no nuance, no motivation, nothing.
The only scene that I kind of liked and had a bit of character to it was between Brolin and Jeffrey Dean Morgan.
Does it work as an action flick? Nope. The action scenes are truncated, boring and nonsensical with little sense of timing or fun.
Overall I'd put this film with Catwoman in my hierarchy of comic book movies - yes, it's that bad.
One has to wonder who thought this was a good idea for a movie. I'm a huge DC fan, but Hex isn't even on my radar. There are a lot of obscure DC characters that might have been interesting, but I guess Westerns are fairly cheap to make so they went this way. The fact that they had to invent supernatural powers for the character to make him interesting doesn't bode well for the entire endeavor.
I'm guessing they tested this film a lot and went back and reedited and tried to make it more audience-friendly, but failed in every possible way. The origin is at the beginning and a lot of it is told in comic book form - not the way to open up a comic book to endear it to movie audiences. But it is a cheap way to get a lot of story in on the cheap. There's a scene later in the film that's not a flashback and is supposed to be the bridge moment in the film. It's live-action and seems like it was part of the origin at one point in the editing but they moved it when they realized they needed a beat in the movie to begin the third act. This point has some interesting visuals with crows but is not really explained at all. Which is unusual for this movie because it's name should be "Talky Exposition." A scene with Aidan Quinn as President Grant and Will Arnett as a serious General is almost laughable in how much really, really bad dialogue it has just getting the explanations in.
Fox is as bad as you'd expect and it seems they had to do some CG makeup on her - her closeups are extremely smooth and unrealistic looking. Her character seems like it was tacked on for no good reason except to cast her. Malkovich is walking through his role in his "generic bad guy" mode - no nuance, no motivation, nothing.
The only scene that I kind of liked and had a bit of character to it was between Brolin and Jeffrey Dean Morgan.
Does it work as an action flick? Nope. The action scenes are truncated, boring and nonsensical with little sense of timing or fun.
Overall I'd put this film with Catwoman in my hierarchy of comic book movies - yes, it's that bad.
