It’s amazing how much can be said of the opening of a five-minute film. Legion kicks things with a man who falls from the sky, except not really hearing him go down. Rose Undeterred by the collapse of the atmosphere and then takes off his jacket to reveal an elegant set of wings, with the exception of the audience are not really wings. A large knife is drawn and wing shapes are sliced off, except the audience did not really see this blasphemous act, either. Then breaks into a quiet way, housing surveillance just enough weapons armory to equip an army battalion and proceeds to blow up a wall in the shape of a cross so that its output unnecessary.
All you need to know about the ex-directing debut of Scott Stewart is the man effects in this scene. It’s not a question to suggest without showing. There is no mystery as to whom or what is falling, so it could show the audience. The movie is rated R, so there’s no reason not to commit to the dismemberment of the wing. And there is no reason for man to fly a wall to leave a room that entered. However, such is the Legion. There is a lack of ideas, concepts, to cool the “oh, the public will love this” moments, but there is no mind behind the typewriter to motivate that neither is talent behind the camera to the life.
Here’s the launch trailer Legion premise: God has lost faith in humanity and has dispatched a swarm of angel’s warriors to clear out their creation. A single angel, Michael, takes off his shackles heavenly to do what he thinks is best and save the life of an unborn child especially a baby who is somehow key to the salvation of mankind. The battle for the life of this baby means automatic weapons and isolated, deserted dining room to serve as a refuge from a legion (get it?) Owned and club fans armed with the angels. That’s all.
Now I wish I could give it a more than the actual movie is 100 minutes, but seeing as the trailer is the whole movie, I cannot. If anything in the marketing material that you thought you would like to see more, like the climbing wall or thin limbs grandmother-Ice Cream Man, hold on to their $ 10, you’ve already seen the extent of this material . These are fleeting moments in the film and are interspersed between the action A) sequences that show little more than agents screaming and holding the trigger of a gun while seeking outside support in the screen invisible “people”, B) piss poor dialogue filled with humor failed attempts, C), melodrama at its peak and D), quite possibly the worst voice-over from the theatrical cut of Blade Runner.
Movie usually these ingredients would be perfectly matched (if not entirely welcome) in a B-. The problem with the Legion, however, although most of the installation launches the B-movie cast, all other aspects of the film barely scratches the D + level. A couple of jokes do so through the barrier of laughter, but the script is not so acute as to maintain flow of free-spirited fun of profanity and surprised reactions one would expect a movie like this. The action sequences are the worst part of the production. More often than not, these issues are made up of actors whose incomprehensible tangle of-way on the set must have been “Yell louder! Shoot more difficult, do not worry, we go to what they’re shooting film and then cut them both together “.
The least unfortunate aspect is the model, but even then, Lucas Black, Tyrese Gibson, Paul Bettany, Adrianne Palicki, Charles S. Dutton and Dennis Quaid are given so little to work with his inability to keep the movie is devoid of sympathy. The outstanding performance is only Kevin Durand as Gabriel, the angel that God sent to Earth to kill Michael Bettany baby is trying to save (for whatever reason). Durand has been adjusting well to himself as a great character actor in recent years and its delivery of the wounded, barely-can-stomach, his angel of existence is part of his most memorable to date. It is a shame, then, that the wall-climbing Grandma gets more screen time than he.
In the field of religion, it is safe to say that there is little or none found in the script of Stewart and his co-screenwriter Peter Schink. It intends to draw its images and myths of Christianity, but is an obvious excuse to make / sell a movie where the angels carry guns. Think of it this way: Legion is to the Bible as the basis is geology textbook.
The trailers may have to think that the Legion seems silly and stupid but in a good way, a kind of cinematic junk food. It is not. It’s worse than that. Legion is the cinematic equivalent of a plastic cup. It is an empty container as easy to remove as it is manufactured and begging to be abandoned in a junkyard. The only people that something can come of it are the film unscrupulous opportunists who have the time and the (lack of) willingness to see what garbage comes in their way. Even if you think that normally fall into this category (I know I often do), put it aside. There is hidden treasures junkyard here, just trash.
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