Legion is a tacky and bizarre tale of religious tomfoolery. The beginning started with a bang and had a gorgeous grungy urban cityscape. At that point, the movie could have been saved for set style alone. Instead of staying in the impressive city, we spent the whole movie in a podunk diner. After that, it seems as if the movie jumped in the middle of an apocalypse for no damned reason. There is some random, cigarette smoking mother-to-be who is giving birth to the Chosen One. Some random guy has a hero complex and wants to take care of her and the baby. There is also whole rag-tag crew of red shirt diner patrons with bad Southern accents. Angels and what seem to be Deadites are sent to make sure that the cigarette smoking baby is never born and/or kill the baby. One angel protects the girl and her baby. A dutiful angel tries to destroy the baby as ordered. Both were dicks but both looked awesome. I would be both fearful and in awe if confronted with these guys in real life. They have to be the most impressive on-screen angels that I’ve seen to date. The angels impressiveness is marred by the lameness of the other scary creatures. There is a demonic granny and creepy ice cream man. I vowed to turn the movie off if they threw in a clown. They didn’t which is the only redeeming thing about this flick. The whole movie was disorganized and lacked focus. The action was good but not fun. The final battle was good and brutal but at the end when asked to make sense of it all the angel just told them to ‘have faith’ and flew off into the sunset. It was an ending that made me feel used and assaulted. Only watch this movie if you want to be amused by its awfulness, if not, skip this one totally.
All is not lost though, Legion, if presented as a Christian action film, is the coolest religious film ever made and if added to the curriculum, Sunday school will never be the same.
Legion was released January 22, 2010 by Sony Pictures.
