Legion: Critic Reviews

Alas, after a brisk start, the script turns out to be a rough and humorless beast slouching its way towards utter ludicrousness.

There are no orgies of planetary destruction; the action almost never leaves the diner, which may be just as well, since a short scene in heaven looks as if it were filmed on the set of a community college Shakespeare production.

The first time, God did it with a flood. Now he's doing it with creepy monsters who can only be repelled with deafening fire from sexy weapons. At least it will keep you awake.

The down time between action scenes is deadly dull and the film's hoary cinematic shorthand (i.e., a young Black man enters the film to the sound of hip-hop and fights with his baby mama) is more terrifying than anything else served up.

Even if you overlook the lousy lighting, awkward editing, and uneven acting, there's so much talking -- and so little story -- that your mind is likely to wander.

This feature debut by writer-director Scott Stewart may sound like an enjoyably goofy theo-horror romp, but it's a serious penance.

A dramatically muddled but surprisingly involving Bible-themed fantasy thriller...

God's given up on the human race and plans to wipe it out. Again.

A ridiculous piece of hokum that is far more fun than it has a right to be.

Legion may traffic in signposts of the apocalypse, but the whole affair mostly indicates that we're in the movie wasteland that is January.

Heaven help these fallen angels.

Sometimes it's a science fiction film, sometimes a melodramatic thriller steeped in religion, and sometimes just a horror film with arachnid demons, and simpleton angels who possess humans for reasons never quite explained...

A few minutes shorter, and an ending that doesn't outright quote the beginning of the movie, and we might have had something here.

...a disappointingly uneven and thoroughly pointless horror effort...

"It's a labored, darkly photographed, cringingly acted hodgepodge of fanciful geek-bait genre ideas and hideous connect-the-dots scripting. Who knew the end of the world could be such a screaming bore."

Inane dialogue, a bad, derivative storyline and evil angels make up this overblown, poor-man's would-be Terminator in which an exploding upside-down crucified man is one of the low points. Just when you think the film couldn't get any worse, it does.

It's up to the Archangel Michael (Paul Bettany) to save the human race - or at least the denizens of a desert diner - after a disappointed God loses his temper and sets off the Apocalypse.

While entertaining--and you do get the Angel Explodo--it does stretch its silliness factor just a bit much.

Ah well. At least we know Paul Bettany's mortgage is covered.

Strangers thrown together by fate are trapped inside an isolated diner as zombies converge outside %u2014 an army sent by God to clean out humankind.

Oh, what a wacky bunch of stereotypes in this diner! There's a rich guy, a black person and even Dennis Quaid!

In the end, you're left wondering why the Almighty has so much trouble disposing of a small group hiding out in a diner and why Paul Bettany signed up for such a pointless venture in the first place.

ILM visual effects wizkid turned Director Scott Stewart has (literally and metaphorically) thrown up the world's dullest horror actioner, although its premise and beginning do at least offer some promise.