Legion

Legion

Running Time: 104 min

Summary: An out-of-the-way diner becomes the unlikely battleground for the survival of the human race. When God loses faith in humankind, he sends his legion of angels to bring on the Apocalypse. Humanity's only hope lies in a group of strangers trapped in a desert diner with the Archangel Michael

Review: When trailers for Legion started running, I was very excited to see this movie. The snippets of the film that were shown in the trailer, were pretty freaky and all around bad-assed. The scene with the old lady/demon who climbs up the walls, the totally creepy ice cream man/freaky spidery demon, etc. It looked pretty cool and I am a sucker for big budget fantasy/horror.

The movie definitely let me down. The story wasn't anything remarkably original... end of the world-this... savior of mankind-that... fallen angel leaves heaven to help mankind... blah blah blah... What I was really excited for were the fight scenes! The action! The different scary demon scenes! Instead of action, what I got was a movie that focused far too much on devloping the mirriad of randoms that end up trapped in this diner as the apocolypse draws nearer. The point of these people is only to entertain us with their deaths as slowly, one-by-one, they all die stupid, pointless deaths, I don't care if they won't let Tyrese see his kid, I don't care that Charles S. Dutton questioned the existance of God when he lost his arm.

Honestly, I expected more from a writer/director who was on the senior writing staff of films like Sin City and Live Free or Die Hard. This movie is definitely not something to write home about but is good for a Sunday afternoon sort of entertainment.

Best Quote: Gladys Foster (creepy old lady/wall climbing demon)[happily] "I said your fucking baby's gonna burn."

Rating: 5 nests out of 10