Review: `Jonah Hex' is short, sugarcoated violence

Critics always gripe that movies are too long and could stand some pruning.

Then you get the occasional movie, like comic-book adaptation "Jonah Hex," that is too short; so short, and so bad, you cringe at the thought of how awful whatever ended up on the cutting-room floor must be.

Take away the eight minutes of end-credits, a lengthy prologue sequence built around comic-book panels and some repetitive flashbacks of action we already have seen, and there's barely an hour's worth of actual movie in "Jonah Hex." And that is using the term "actual movie" generously.

Part of what is missing is the harder-core violence …