Legion

The concept for Legion was a brilliant one, God sends angels to wipe out mankind, but the archangel Michael defies him and decides to defend us. Sounds good right? Unfortunately almost everything but the initial idea for Legion was terrible. The biggest problem was that this films reported $26 million production budget, was nowhere near enough for a movie of this scope, and due to this at points an awful lot of nothing happened. In terms of feel this film had to very unusual influences, firstly at times Paul Bettany’s Michael looked like a 90’s action hero blasting away with automatic rifles under each arm ala Schwarzenegger. It also seemed to be a zombie movie in disguise, with all the usual clichés including a group of diverse strangers being trapped in a building while zombies or in this case angels, try to get in. The script also deserves a bit of a pasting, as aside from the occasional one liner the dialogue was awful and unrealistic, and the characters never thought to ask Michael the hows or whys as to what was going on, he just turns up, says the Armageddon is coming, and everyone excepts it with no more explanation than that. This films only redeeming feature was Paul Bettany who made the most of dismal circumstances.

Score: 1.5/5