DC’s Strangest Comic Book Movie is About to Leave HBO Max

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Most people associate DC Comics with classic superhero films featuring characters like Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, and The Flash. However, DC offers a much broader range of stories beyond these traditional heroes. They explore various genres—including fantasy, science fiction, and westerns—with compelling characters and exciting action. These diverse tales are some of DC’s most unique, and one of them is soon leaving HBO Max.

Movie fans have only a few days left to stream the 2010 Western film Jonah Hex on HBO Max, as it leaves the platform on February 28th. The movie, based on the DC Comics character, stars Josh Brolin as Jonah Hex, a former Confederate soldier and bounty hunter with a unique ability: he can talk to the dead. The Army hires Hex to track down Quentin Turnbull, the man who murdered his family and left him scarred, before Turnbull can launch a dangerous attack. While Jonah Hex wasn’t a success at the box office, it remains one of the more unusual films in the DC universe.

Jonah Hex Isn’t a Great Film But It’s Exciting, Entertaining and Unlike Anything Else

Let’s be honest, Jonah Hex isn’t a cinematic masterpiece. The plot feels disjointed and the characters, especially Megan Fox’s Lilah Black, aren’t fully developed. The movie also struggles with its tone – it tries to blend fantastical elements with a very serious portrayal of a bounty hunter who can communicate with ghosts, and it doesn’t quite work. While the actors commit to their roles, Josh Brolin and John Malkovich (as Turnbull) stand out as making the most of a flawed script.

Okay, so Jonah Hex isn’t perfect, let’s be real. But as a movie fan, I actually had a good time with it! It’s a quick watch – only 81 minutes – and honestly, it’s pretty much non-stop action. The story is a little weird in how it mixes things up, but it moves at a good pace, and I found its supernatural take on the Wild West pretty original. There’s just nothing else quite like it, and we haven’t really seen anything like it since. Over the last sixteen years, comic book movies have become all about the big franchises and traditional superheroes. Jonah Hex deliberately avoids all that, and that’s a big part of what makes it so enjoyable and memorable.

Jonah Hex leaves HBO Max on February 28th.

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2026-02-22 00:16