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Reviews Counted:62
Fresh:11
Rotten:51
Average Rating:3.6/10
Consensus: Despite a solid cast and intermittent thrills, Legion suffers from a curiously languid pace, confused plot, and an excess of dialogue.
Rated: R [See Full Rating]
Genre: Horror/Suspense
Theatrical Release:Jan 22, 2010 Wide
Box Office: $34,731,934
Synopsis: In the supernatural action thriller Legion, an out-of-the-way diner becomes the unlikely battleground for the survival of the human race. When God loses faith in Mankind, he sends his legion of... [More]
Starring: Paul Bettany, Dennis Quaid, Lucas Black, Tyrese Gibson
Director: Scott Stewart
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Angels we have heard on high. coming down to kick our sorry butts. God can't make up his mind whether he wants humans to survive like they did after the great flood. The battle of the ages singles down on a pregnant woman about to give birth to a holy
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Winged things are flitting in two movies, one of which is aimed at adults and the other which is aimed at children. Neither of them is worth seeing.
God could have saved himself a lot of trouble if he'd only have taken the words to 'You Can't Always Get What You Want' to heart.
[A] mediocre picture.
Top CriticThere’s a lot going on, a lot of theology, a lot of bad horror movie effects.
Top CriticLegion will have you wishing for the end.
Goofily entertaining, especially when the cast isn't speaking, this rip-roaring blasphemous diversion is worth a gander or two, especially for those who enjoy bug attacks, exploding crucified humans, grossly expandable limbs, and loads of gunfire.
Anne Rice was right; angels are just as hot and just as deadly as those bloodsuckers from Twilight and True Blood.
I'm quite confident Jesus would hate this movie.
It's Terminator plus Dogma times Supernatural as set in a Stephen King novel reinterpreted by someone without a sense of humor or knack for dialogue operating on a low budget. But God help me, I liked it!
A love story and a quest for faith gurgle in the background, but it all fades to exploding stomachs and the Archangel Gabriel's chainsaw.
I would prefer to think that Legion was written by a Final Draft program possessed by Pat Robertson's subconscious.
The down time between action scenes is deadly dull and the film's hoary cinematic shorthand (i.e., a young Black man enters the film to the sound of hip-hop and fights with his baby mama) is more terrifying than anything else served up.
Top CriticIf you're really that hard up for yet another apocalypso horror show, you'd could do worse than renting 1995's The Prophecy, which at least had the good sense to cast Christopher Walken as the angel Gabriel.
Essentially a B-movie dressed up with A-level special effects, Legion looks spiffy but sounds bad with a lot of overwritten dialogue scenes and predictable action.
This feature debut by writer-director Scott Stewart may sound like an enjoyably goofy theo-horror romp, but it's a serious penance.
Top CriticThe screenwriters... don't have anything remotely like the training, talent, or the apparent inclination to do anything with this material that is in the least bit entertaining or insightful.
Would-be supernatural thriller ... tries too hard to play B-movie material serious and goes straight to hell by the ... second act.
Movies don't get much more wick wick wack than this amusingly God-awful -- and yes, that's God with a capital 'G' -- horror-action spectacle that alternates between outrageous camp and sobersided sanctimony as it slouches toward cable immortality...
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