Legion: When good premises go bad

A group of survivors has taken shelter at a truck stop after the apocalypse. All hope seems to be lost until they are visited by the archangel Michael, who has joined them in order to protect one of the survivors who is baring the Messiah.

The premise behind this film was that God was angry and had essentially lost faith in all of human kind. Therefore he unleashed the apocalypse in order to rid the world of most of the bad apples and start again. Michael intercedes in this for he loves mankind and believes that man can change. On paper the film sounded like it could have been an intense theological thriller, however you do not watch a film on paper. Legion failed on every level to be anything close to entertaining. The characters were unlikable, so much so one halfway through the film one started hoping that God’s little reboot would work. The story was never fully developed and the plot had major holes in it. So director Scott Charles Stewart decided to see how many inept shoot outs or car crashes he could plaster on the screen in order to kill the rest of the film’s running time when the characters weren’t emotionally bashing one another or spouting dialogue for which the term “dreadful” would be complimentary. Worst of all he turned the character of Michael into a pseudo “Terminator” who seemed more worried about killing folks than protecting the mother of the Messiah and carried more guns than a Special Forces unit.

Uninspired, dull and silly, Legion was an insipid waste of time.


Grade: D-