Legion (2010)

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Celestial tosh of less than Biblical proportions.

March 5, 2010 Full Review

Nigel Floyd

Time Out

Top Critic

[A] mediocre picture.

February 1, 2010 Full Review

Michael Phillips

At the Movies

Top Critic

There's a lot going on, a lot of theology, a lot of bad horror movie effects.

February 1, 2010 Full Review

A.O. Scott

At the Movies

Top Critic

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.

January 27, 2010 Full Review

Ernest Hardy

Village Voice

Top Critic

This feature debut by writer-director Scott Stewart may sound like an enjoyably goofy theo-horror romp, but it's a serious penance.

January 27, 2010 Full Review

Cliff Doerksen

Chicago Reader

Top Critic

Often resembles a prime John Carpenter thriller -- call it Assault on Manger 13 -- until an overcaffeinated angel-fu climax significantly lowers the intelligence quotient.

January 23, 2010 Full Review

Keith Uhlich

Time Out New York

Top Critic

An utterly ludicrous entry in the biblical-horror subgenre.

February 15, 2013 Full Review

Steve Newton

Georgia Straight

Why spend your money watching an extended trailer?

September 9, 2011 Full Review

Kamal 'The Diva' Larsuel

3BlackChicks Review

I really enjoyed this stupid movie.

April 4, 2011 Full Review

Dave White

Movies.com

Heaven help these fallen angels.

December 25, 2010 Full Review

Don Groves

sbs.com.au

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...

December 22, 2010 Full Review

Felix Vasquez Jr.

Cinema Crazed

A few minutes shorter, and an ending that doesn't outright quote the beginning of the movie, and we might have had something here.

December 5, 2010 Full Review

Rob Humanick

Projection Booth

...a disappointingly uneven and thoroughly pointless horror effort...

November 5, 2010 Full Review

David Nusair

Reel Film Reviews

"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."

June 2, 2010 Full Review

Brian Orndorf

BrianOrndorf.com

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.

May 31, 2010 Full Review

Louise Keller

Urban Cinefile

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.

May 15, 2010 Full Review | Comments (2)

Philip Martin

Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

While entertaining--and you do get the Angel Explodo--it does stretch its silliness factor just a bit much.

April 18, 2010 Full Review

Widgett Walls

Needcoffee.com

Ah well. At least we know Paul Bettany's mortgage is covered.

April 1, 2010 Full Review | Comments (2)

Robbie Collin

News of the World

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.

March 25, 2010 Full Review | Comments (8)

Annlee Ellingson

Moving Pictures Magazine

Oh, what a wacky bunch of stereotypes in this diner! There's a rich guy, a black person and even Dennis Quaid!

March 19, 2010 Full Review | Comment (1)

Sean Burns

Philadelphia Weekly

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.

March 15, 2010 Full Review

Simon Reynolds

Digital Spy

Legion has the audacity to set itself up for sequels without giving the audience enough compelling reason to care about this first installment.

March 5, 2010 Full Review

Russ Breimeier

Christianity Today

Could have been T2 with seraphs, or Assault On Precinct 13 crossed with Revelations. Instead, it's a lazy genre bore. Doesn't bode well for Priest, the next Stewart/Bettany film in the pipeline.

March 5, 2010 Full Review

Nick De Semlyen

Empire Magazine

The sort of confused mess liable to provoke an apocalyptic cull of humanity by any rational supreme being with an interest in cinema.

March 5, 2010 Full Review

Film4

Bettany's job: rescuing the modern Mary, a skanky waitress, and saving her unborn child. Our job: holding back the laughter.

March 5, 2010 Full Review

Kate Muir

Times [UK]

• 1. Charlie: When I was a little girl, my mother spoke of a prophecy, of a time when all the world would be covered in darkness and the fate of mankind would be decided. One night I finally got the courage to ask my mother, why God was so mad at His children. "I don't know," she said tucking the covers around me, "I guess He just got tired of all the bullshit."
  – Submitted by Chris P (2 years ago)
• 1. Michael: When God chose your kind as the object of His love, I was the first in all of heaven to bow down before you. My love, my hope for mankind was no less than His. But I have watched you trample that gift. I have watched you kill each other over race and greed... waging war over dust and rubble and the words in old books. And yet, in the midst of all this darkness, I see some people who will not be bowed. I see some people who will not give up, even when they know all hope is lost. Some people, who realize being lost is so close to being found. I see you, Jeep. Fifteen years old, your mother leaves. Your father withdraws from the world and you spend the next five years of your young life helping him find his way home. You love a woman who bears the child of another and you love her with no thought of yourself, even though you know she may never love you the way you love her. You, Jeep... you are the reason I still have faith.
  – Submitted by Chris P (2 years ago)

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