A cartoonishly grim supernatural thriller that could stand a lot less talk and a lot more thrills. Robert Abele. Legion may traffic in signposts of the apocalypse, but the whole affair mostly indicates that we're in the movie wasteland that is January.
Empire Nick de Semlyen. User Score. Write a Review. User Reviews. RickD Jan 25, I agree of the well-cast lead of their roll in this movie, but we also learned the message that gives this movie, that humanity is coming to a point of losing their moral values, love to God and believing of God. Jan 24, Believe the blasphemous rumors spread by Depeche Mode frontman David Gahan: God does indeed have "a sick sense of humor".
As a matter of fact, in "Legion", our lord and savior is downright hillarious. According to Michael Paul Bettany , the terminator angel, God has grown tired of watching Believe the blasphemous rumors spread by Depeche Mode frontman David Gahan: God does indeed have "a sick sense of humor".
According to Michael Paul Bettany , the terminator angel, God has grown tired of watching us "kill over race and greed", and in so many words, the buff angel tells Jeep Lucas Black that God is pissed off. Not only does God want us dead, he wants us to die agonizingly slow; he wants us to turn each other into zombies. Well, as the saying goes, God acts in mysterious ways. Unfortunately, Jesus sits this one out; only Jesus, perhaps, could have intervened on our behalf, even the non-Christians, and prevented these homicidal angels from being deployed by that thug God.
Where's Bruno Ganz when you really need him? Touched by an angel not the good kind of touch like from a Kraut attendant spirit , an old woman with a walker warns Charlie Adrianne Palicki , playing a Sarah Connor-esque waitress, that her baby is going to burn, in the film's only scene with a pulse, and it's not just because the virulent senior crawls on the walls and ceiling like a spider; the old woman's prophetic words against this knocked-up singleton is just the sort of thing that some religious types are thinking when they push their traditional family agenda.
This old woman, infused with the "holy" spirit, represents a side of Christianity, the hyper-moralistic side, that "Legion" could have developed as a concept more explicitly into the storyline for a more provocative movie, rather than waste time on soul-bearing conversation after soul-bearing conversation between the cardboard characters from the greasy spoon, and the proselytized zombie action.
If only Jesus put in an appearance and kicked some angel ass. After all, Jesus saves. Feb 7, God created the earth in seven days It is not only unbelievable how the people survived as long as they did it is even more unbelievable a studio would God created the earth in seven days It is not only unbelievable how the people survived as long as they did it is even more unbelievable a studio would actually spend money producing this film.
The interesting overall plot could be given justice by ambitious filmmakers with a deeper roster of talent and a bigger budget. Legion comes off as a very lazy movie that originally lured people in with its promise of an interesting story and plenty of big fantasy-action scenes — no wonder God is mad. Legion Movie Review The truth should be told, Nov, Verdict 1. Legion Trailer. Legion Pages. Peter Schink Scott Stewart. Top credits Director Scott Stewart. See more at IMDbPro.
Trailer Legion: Thanksgiving Clip. Clip Featurette Interview Legion -- Scott Stewart Soundbites. Legion -- Paul Bettany Soundbites. Legion -- Comic-Con Panel. Photos Top cast Edit.
Paul Bettany Michael as Michael. Charles S. Dutton Percy Walker as Percy Walker. Adrianne Palicki Charlie as Charlie. Kevin Durand Gabriel as Gabriel.
Josh Stamberg Burton as Burton. Yancey Arias Estevez as Estevez. Scott Stewart. More like this. Watch options. Storyline Edit. An out-of-the-way diner becomes the unlikely battleground for the survival of the human race. When God loses faith in humankind, he sends his legion of angels to bring on the Apocalypse. Humanity's only hope lies in a group of strangers trapped in a desert diner with the Archangel Michael Bettany.
When the last angel falls, the fight for mankind begins. Rated R for strong bloody violence, and language. Did you know Edit. Trivia In , SyFy network launched a television series called Dominion that is set 25 years after the events in Legion. In , after two seasons, SyFy cancelled the series. Goofs When Michael shoots Burton, the cop seen early in the film, a crash mat can be seen on the driver's side of the patrol car as Burton falls to the ground.
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