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Definitely nowhere near perfect, and will leave you with many unanswered questions. However, if you're willing to lighten up and not take it too seriously it manages to be an entertaining film. All the highlights and action scenes of the movie seemed to have been contained in the trailer. As a whole, the story weaves pretty close to incoherency more than once. But it's got a great cast (Dennis Quaid and Charles S. Dutton just to name a few). And really, if seeing a bunch of people possessed by angels getting blown away by a diverse arsenal of weapons doesn't brighten your day, what will?

Legion(released Jan/10)is an above average film that sports a solid cast and good S/FX....all great in hiding the less than stellar script.Dennis Quaid is Bob Hansen,Charles Dutton is Percy,Paul Bettany is Archangel Michael,Adrianne Palicki is Charlie and Lucas Black is Jeep Hansen.
The story starts in L.A. where Archangel Michael has come to Earth and has shed his wings to become a mortal human.The scene switches to a diner way out in the middle of nowhere where a Bob Hansen and his son Jeep,with the assistance of cook Percy and pregnant waitress Charlie,have eked out a meager living for years.Thrown into the mix is a couple with a broken down Bmer and a rebellious daughter.The first to stir the pot is an old lady who comes in to dine but turns "ugly" very quickly.Once dispatched the diner inhabitants are winging their way down the highway to save the life of the male patron.Soon though they are forced to turn back,as what appears to be a large sandstorm they are heading into is in actuality a plague of flies.Once back at the diner Archangel Michael shows up and tells the group to prepare for the worst.He arms them all with high powered weapons and soon the carnage begins.It starts slowly with the eerie arrival of an ice cream truck and its "vendor",then moves on to a continuous line of vehicles of all sorts from both directions.
The small group are surrounded and slowly but surely the group of possessed people outside pick away at each person inside.As their numbers dwindle,so it appears,does their hope.It is the arrival however of another Archangel,Gabriel,that things finally come down to brass tacks.Michael and Gabriel battle each other to the "death",with Gabriel winning the first round.Out in the desert and on the run Gabriel catches up to the survivors Jeep,Charlie and her baby...whom this entire sequence of events was the catalyst for.It is a touch and go finale and Gabriel goes away the poorer than he came in.
I found the first half hour,where we get the necessary character development in order to move the film forward,a little cliched.The characters are either tired of life because of wrong decisions years before and/or they're going no where fast,one has an unrequited love and one has strong religious convictions.It is all too obvious a build up for characters that need a life changing experience,to that exact life changing experience that is inevitably coming later in the film.Added to this are a myriad of unanswered questions that arise throughout the film.Having said that,however,the solid acting throughout is what saves this picture from imploding in on itself as Quaid,Bettany and especially Dutton show off their acting skills.What one has to do is to let go and just let the film's rhythm move you along.If you do that the film is much more enjoyable.
Technically speaking the film is clear and crisp in its original a/r of 2:40:1.Extras include three featurettes on the stunts,visual effects and the cast and characters.
All in all a nice film about an apocalypse denied.The acting is top notch as are the S/Fx.Just overlook the sometimes cardboard characterizations and the plot holes,and you will have a better time than you otherwise would.Recommended.

Note: This review is not to go through the film with lots of spoilers, but an overview and impression of the film:

At first, I thought that Legion would be an interesting twist on the Christian biblical version of the apocalypse, witty like Constantine or even as brilliant as The Seventh Sign, but clever enough with decent actors and a strong cast such as Paul Bettany, Kate Walsh, and Dennis Quaid (I know, betting on quality with Dennis is sometimes 50/50).

Not only is the movie script shoddy, with holes big enough to drive a truck through, but it didn't make sense, flow or even feel intelligent enough for me to guess the next scenes. It also violates several big no-no's in script writing, killing off characters that just doesn't add any cinematic value to the movie.

Character development is hap-hazzard - they'll spend a lot of time going into one character then kill them off, and then have someone who plays a major role in the film and have them as flat and transparent as saran-wrap. Furthermore, the development and speed of the script is suppose to flow: this film does neither. It tries to follow the premise of the `End of Days' yet it plays more out like a Friday the 13th - all pointing to poor direction.

In the end, I found the movie confusing with a lot of shoddy dialogue and weak character development. This movie is also very short - it's like the director when editing the film went "oh... this is just crap, I'm done" - with the film ending in a big fight scene and a `what-the-....' moment.

The director, Scott Charles Stewart, should go back to his real job of visual effects where I know he's a genious. Behind the camera, he doesn't have the talent to cross over to the directors chair...yet.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Legion
Hello from Grande Prairie AB,
My son has been looking for this movie in stores for quite some time now and unable to find it. I knew that Amazon would have it. Read more

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