Legion Movie Review

What's with all the religious related movies these days? At least this one doesn't take itself too seriously. Really, how could it with the old lady that swears, the smoking women who's eight months pregnant and cops that like to pretend they're shooting random civilians with their finger. Dennis Quaid and Tyrese Gibson are the recognizable faces along for the ride.

This movies like that but it is to show how far humanity has fallen. It also makes for some ridiculous but funny dialog so long as you don't take it seriously (sometimes it's laugh out loud stupid). So, humanity has fallen so far that God himself has officially grown tired of all of our “bull shit” and has sent angels down to earth to kill us all like the flood in the Noah's Ark story (but a flood of evil angels). Only the birth of a baby at a remote diner that's not supposed to be born can save us and one of the Angels decides to disobey in order to save the child. An okay premise that ultimately leads to some fun action.

And action is what this movie aims for. There's a lot of gun play, fight scenes and (since the angels can't fly in their human bodies) they must arrive to the diner in whatever car they can and then smash. All of them happen to be total pieces of crap(I'm sure not by accident) that the crew must have had a good time destroying.

The movie starts to stall during the beginning part of the second half as they try to explore the characters. It just ends up turning into people sitting around whining about their life. The whole self pity party does get a little annoying and slows the movie down for awhile until the next wave of evil Angels hits. That's pretty much how the movie goes, sit around, talk about something, wave of angels attack. This movie also suffers by getting stuck in one setting. It gets dull to watch people go in and out of one diner for so long.

In the end this is an fun diversion of a movie. It's not outstanding, just okay. It gets a little redundant and the later half of the movie lags. It gets a little painful to watch when they try to take themselves seriously at all and this movie really needed some twist in the plot to drive it through the second half.