Legion (2010) [Blu-ray]
Action | Fantasy | Thriller

At a remote desert truck stop, the fate of the world will be decided. Evil's armies are amassing. Armed and united by the Archangel Michael (Paul Bettany), a group of strangers become unwitting soldiers on the frontlines of the Apocalypse. Their mission: protect a waitress and her sacred unborn child from the relentless, bloody siege of the demonic legion. Also starring Dennis Quaid (G.I. Joe: The Rise Of Cobra, Vantage Point), Tyrese Gibson (Transformers) and Lucas Black (Jarhead).

User Comment: newtonpost from United Kingdom, 23 January 2010 • Oh dear!! Muddled, directionless script and plot line is not saved by a good performance from Bettany.

This is essentialy a zombie movie with a spin and a poor one at that. Angels behaiving like demons (who are after all, fallen angels themselves), a God who has questionable (and fickle) faith and seems to lack the ability to overcome 6 people armed with automatic weapons. The scenes manage to be both predictable and senseless at one and the same time.

I could understand if some Christians would find this offensive. As a paying viewer, I found it offensive that I had paid to watch such a steaming pile of dog do.

You have been warned!!

Summary: What a stinker!!

User Comment: juiceman10712 from Canada, 23 January 2010 • The overall premise of the film is a little silly yes, but it's incredibly original and it had so much potential.

The film suffers from a handful of serious flaws that ruin just about everything good that the film has going for it. The pacing is horrendous. The action scenes are few, far between and horribly rushed and the down time in between them slows to a crawl. This time is used for each of the uninteresting, two-dimensional characters to melodramatically shed out stories of their troubled pasts. We just don't care about ANY of them due to minuscule character development and a horrible script.

The whole film is terribly written with some questionable scenes that seemed to have been written only for the convenience of the characters. The plot is pretty simple but mostly unexplained and full of holes. SO much is left in the dark and the main point of the film isn't even explained so it's hard to care at all during the supposed dramatic moments.

Too much talking and not enough action for it to be a wicked B-movie and the overabundance of melodrama and terrible writing keep it from being a serious, dramatic epic.

There are slivers of a good film and some great ideas that occasionally appear and the few, brief action scenes are fairly entertaining, but everything else is so terribly executed that it isn't worth any kind of recommendation.

Summary: A huge disappointment.

[CSW] -1- Even the action scenes couldn't save this movie. With a few friends each with a few beers and everyone poking fun at the zombie scenes the comedic effect might make this tolerable.

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