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There's a lot going on, a lot of theology, a lot of bad horror movie effects.
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.
This feature debut by writer-director Scott Stewart may sound like an enjoyably goofy theo-horror romp, but it's a serious penance.
Legion may traffic in signposts of the apocalypse, but the whole affair mostly indicates that we're in the movie wasteland that is January.
There are no orgies of planetary destruction; the action almost never leaves the diner, which may be just as well, since a short scene in heaven looks as if it were filmed on the set of a community college Shakespeare production.
Why spend your money watching an extended trailer?
I really enjoyed this stupid movie.
Heaven help these fallen angels.
Sometimes it's a science fiction film, sometimes a melodramatic thriller steeped in religion, and sometimes just a horror film with arachnid demons, and simpleton angels who possess humans for reasons never quite explained...
A few minutes shorter, and an ending that doesn't outright quote the beginning of the movie, and we might have had something here.
...a disappointingly uneven and thoroughly pointless horror effort...
"It's a labored, darkly photographed, cringingly acted hodgepodge of fanciful geek-bait genre ideas and hideous connect-the-dots scripting. Who knew the end of the world could be such a screaming bore."
Inane dialogue, a bad, derivative storyline and evil angels make up this overblown, poor-man's would-be Terminator in which an exploding upside-down crucified man is one of the low points. Just when you think the film couldn't get any worse, it does.
It's up to the Archangel Michael (Paul Bettany) to save the human race - or at least the denizens of a desert diner - after a disappointed God loses his temper and sets off the Apocalypse.
This small-scale apocalypse plays like a mix of siege thriller and horror movie...
The tedious Legion teaches us nothing, except that Paul Bettany matches a fetching brunette.
Only sporadically entertaining. A pity. It could have been so much better.
A faith based shoot 'em up of biblical proportions, with god guns and angel wing weapons of mass destruction. While God's sidekick, a Brit and possible obstetrician, wards off an entire planet of pro-abortion busybodies in his midst.
While entertaining--and you do get the Angel Explodo--it does stretch its silliness factor just a bit much.
Ah well. At least we know Paul Bettany's mortgage is covered.
Strangers thrown together by fate are trapped inside an isolated diner as zombies converge outside %u2014 an army sent by God to clean out humankind.
Oh, what a wacky bunch of stereotypes in this diner! There's a rich guy, a black person and even Dennis Quaid!
In the end, you're left wondering why the Almighty has so much trouble disposing of a small group hiding out in a diner and why Paul Bettany signed up for such a pointless venture in the first place.
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