(Review Below)
Film: Legion
Format: Blu-Ray
Run time (approx): 100 mins (Approx)
My Rating (out of 10): 5.5
Genre: Action/Fantasy/Horror
**Contains Spoilers**
Film Highlight: Someones old fragile grandma is a cannibalistic free runner that prefers to wear pink jumpers and eat very rare meat.
Legion , directed by Scott Charles Stewart is a 'end of human race' film. A diner becomes the battleground for the survival of the human race, god loses faith in humankind (Not hard) and sends his armies of angels/possessed people with big mouths (Palmer Anderson is exempt) to bring on the Apocalypse. Hope lies with a group of stereotypical 'truck stop dwellers' and angel 'Michael' that refused his order from god.
The whole idea of this film excited me (allot...) , angels , massive wings, guns, end of mankind, possessed people e.t.c. There was so much potential for a film like this but unfortunately there were a number of things that let it down. The cast was also strong, Paul Bettany (Davinci Code), Lucas Black (Tokyo Drift), Tyrese Gibson and Dennis Quaid. Even Doug Jones (Hellboy) makes an appearance as an 'ice cream man' with long limbs ! The budget was also a comfy $26 million but still failed to satisfy.
Like other reviewers are saying, the first 70 minutes of the film are entertaining but the last 30 minutes are rushed with a bad ending which seemed dragged a bit like 'Skyline'. Character development was awful even though we spent about half the film learning about a stuck up family with a slut of a daughter, a black guy with a gun (woah!?) , a chef with one hand and a diner owner that obviously hates TVs. Dialogue was predictable, some aspects of the film wasn't but was then ruined by the revealing trailers. There was some good action scenes and the film was different in terms of action horrors.
At the end of the day...
+A Good cast
+A different variation of action/horrors
+At least its a change from holding up in a mall
-Bad attempt at character development
-Predictable
-Last 30 minutes go down hill (except the angel show down in the diner)
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