There’s nothing more frustrating than watching a movie that’s unsure of its self.
You know when the hottest girl in the room starts complaining about how she looks fat or ugly and you find your eyes rolling into the back of your head rather focuses on her assets, wishing, praying she will just shut her mouth?
Well, all I wanted was for everyone in Legion to shut the hell up.
The apocalypse, no matter how many times it has been done, will always attract an audience. The end of the world and the realization of our own deaths have been on our minds since the dawn of man. Legion could have been rich with imagery and themes and should have tapped right into our curiosity about the apocalypse but just ends up flapping its gums about a whole lot of nothing.
Legion has a recognizable cast that includes Dennis Quad (you remember Innerespace 1987, right!?), Lucas Black (Friday Night Lights, Fast and Furious; Tokyo Drift), Adrianne Palicki (NBC’s Friday Night Lights), and Paul Bettany (Wimbledon) but unfortunately for them the dialog makes their performances laughable.
Held up in a run down Mojave Dessert truck stop, the fallen angel Michael must protect an unborn child from the wrath of God. The opening sequence of Legion is promising but it doesn’t take long before Scott Stewart, the director, decided that the old adage “show don’t tell” was something he didn’t believe in.
Legion wasn’t all bad, there were some interesting ideas and special effects, most of which you can catch in the trailer. There was an effect lifted right out of Jacobs Ladder (Tim Robbins, 1990) that proved how unimaginative and flat Legion really was. I would have liked to see them take the movie in one direction and stick with it instead of trying to incorporate an ensemble cast to represent every marketing demographic they could think of.
The world almost ended, but I was too busy sending texts on my new Droid to really notice.
My Vote: M16 shells pinging on the pavement and dreary dialog doesn’t mean you made a movie…
