10 Underappreciated Comic Book Movies That Deserve A Second Chance

10. Jonah Hex

Years before Warner Bros took their scissors to Batman V Superman and Suicide Squad they cut up and re-shot portions of this DC Comics adaptation, which seems to start about a third of the way through the story.

Instead of a proper introduction to the eponymous gunslinger, we first meet him being tied up by Quentin Turnbull (John Malkovich) and forced to watch as his house is burned down with his family inside. Turnbull was Hex’s commanding officer in the Civil War, you see, but he disobeyed Turnbull’s orders and ended up killing his son, for which he pays with his life. Resurrected by Indians, Hex acquires the ability to communicate with the dead and sets out for revenge on Turnbull, who by the way has faked his death in a hotel fire.

That’s a lot of exposition to cram into the first five minutes of a movie.

Nothing sinks a movie’s box office chances faster than rumors of a troubled shoot and according to Josh Brolin, the production was so rocky that they went back and re-shot 66 pages in 12 days. It’s still fun, though, and at 81 minutes it doesn’t exactly outstay its welcome.