Legion

Often resembles a prime John Carpenter thriller--call it "Assault on Manger 13"--until an overcaffeinated angel-fu climax significantly lowers the intelligence quotient.

Even when the blood-and-thunder hokiness of the over-the-top plot tilts perilously close to absurdity, the admirably straight-faced performances by well-cast lead players provide just enough counterbalance to sustain audience curiosity and sympathy.

This wan rebooting of the Christ tale has decent acting, serviceable if familiar visual effects, a few jump-in-your-seat moments, and the always crowd-pleasing gimmick of a senior citizen cussing up a storm. But 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.

Profane, profanely silly and blasphemous to beat the band, Legion begins well before plunging into the abyss of tedium.

As for Legion, well, if you've seen one plague of flies and death and angels at war with each other, you've seen 'em all.

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A fun summer film. Not a special movie by any means, but a movie that is unique enough to be worth a watch on a streaming service.

This movie looks like a video game because it is structured in waves of enemies of increasing difficulty, and this makes the plot almost secondary. The plot has a very nice and almost original basic idea but then the execution is not the best and this makes it full of holes from start to finish, so you can't really understand why the whole film unfolds.

"Legion" was not a film that caused an impression, but neither did it. The story was originally based, but as far as performances and effects were concerned, they did not help much to save the film, they saved the world, but their film did not.

I saw bettany in the reent movie Priest and thought he fit with the dark roles. This movie wasn't horror or thriller - it failed in both. The movie was a waste of time to sit through.