'Legion' Fails to Impress Despite a Decent Cast
John T. Johnson
Issue date: 2/1/10 Section: Features
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is sad. Only this time, the big guy upstairs is pissed off about it and decides that it's finally time to bring down some holy justice to Earth.
Of course, this brand of justice means sending down angels to possess the weak and bore the audience.
The film opens up with the archangel Michael (Paul Bettany) falling from heaven and making himself mortal.
Michael still has faith in humanity and disobeys God by defying his orders. After his fall from grace, Michael quickly finds some guns.
Then he heads to a small diner in the New Mexico desert to protect a young, pregnant waitress (Adrianne Palicki) and warn her that the other angels are coming
to kill her baby. Michael knows that the baby will lead humanity out of their current dark state. Therefore, he has all of the people in the diner board up the windows, arm themselves and wait for the baby's birth.
And this is the first and biggest
problem with the film. The characters do nothing but wait through most of the film.
In the meantime, characters
like Bob Hanson (Dennis
Quaid) complain about all of their stupid problems they have with their lives and the audience just wants to shoot themselves.
Even Michael has nothing to do except explain what is going on outside and occasionally
shoot his guns.
When he finally arrives to the diner, this is where it seems the movie might actually
begin to get interesting.
However, it is not meant to be.
But the film does change one thing from the past generic
thrillers we've had in the past. The film does not have just one token black guy.
It has two token black guys!
Another huge problem is that just because a writer makes it angels instead of demons that are coming to destroy the only thing that can save humanity, it doesn't make it original. All of the angels
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