Legion |  | Actors: Dennis Quaid, Paul Bettany
Studio: Sony Pictures
Category: DVD
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Rating:  133 reviews
Sales Rank: 1069
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Language: English (Unknown)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 1
Discs: 1
Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1
Running Time: 100 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: 043396343504
UPC: 043396343504
EAN: 0043396343504
ASIN: B0021L8V34
Theatrical Release Date: January 22, 2010
Release Date: May 11, 2010
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Product Description
AT A REMOTE DESERT TRUCK STOP, THE FATE OF THE WORLD WILL BE DECIDED. EVIL'S ARMIES ARE AMASSING. ARMED & UNITED BY THE ARCHANGEL MICHAEL, A GROUP OF STRANGERS BECOME UNITTING SOLDIERS ON THE FRONTLINES OF THE APOCALYPSE. THEIR MISSION: TO PROTECT A WAITRESS & HER UNBORN CHILD FROM THE DEMONIC LEGION.
As pure check-your-head-at-the-door popcorn entertainment, the apocalyptic action-horror hybrid Legion delivers in nearly every frame--its story of a band of strangers fighting an army of angels and demons for the fate of mankind is proudly loud, bullet riddled, and knee-deep in gore and CGI. That doesn't mean it's particularly good or even coherent--the story has renegade angel Michael (a glum Paul Bettany) come to the aid of diner owner Dennis Quaid (equally glum) and his patrons (a cross-section of stereotypes embodied by a capable cast, which includes Lucas Black, Charles S. Dutton, Tyrese Gibson, Kate Walsh, and Jon Tenney) as a host of heavenly and diabolical beings, dispatched by an angry God, descend on the diner with the intent of killing waitress Adrianne Palicki (Friday Night Lights), whose unborn child may be the salvation of humanity. The orgy of special effects--endless hails of bullets and a menagerie of unpleasant demonic creatures, the most unsettling of which is the ice cream man (Doug Jones, Hellboy)--is eye popping but ultimately repetitive, and since no character rises above a cipher in director Scott Stewart's script (cowritten with Peter Schink), the whole affair feels unwieldy and eventually tiresome under a barrage of hackneyed dialogue. Naturally, Legion ends with the possibility of a sequel, though one wonders where the story can go after Armageddon. --Paul Gaita
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 Don't listen to the harsh criticism!! September 5, 2010
B. Vick
Watch this movie and determine your own opinion. I was skeptical when I heard about this movie. I watched it and I was impressed enough to go out and buy it after watching it.
 Not as bad as some would have you believe September 1, 2010
Larry (New Jersey)
OK, this isn't a great movie by any stretch of the imagination. But neither is it as bad as you may have heard. Its about angels, so this isn't shawshank redemption people. The problem with the movie is its just kind of, well, empty. I kept watching and expecting something big or great to happen, it never did. The acting is decent for the material the cast is working with, and the movie does have some amusing scenes. Its an average movie, not a train wreck.
Very entertaining - people looking for academy award material need not bother August 29, 2010
C. Halvorson (Seattle)
After reading mixed reviews, I was hesitant to rent this film. After watching it, I feel I was completely mislead. This movie was very entertaining. Was it realistic? No. Was the acting the best ever? No. However, it was an entertaining story with entertaining characters and interesting effects. If you are watching films to find deeper meaning or be awe inspired artistically, then don't bother, but if you just want to be entertained with an fun story for a couple hours - I highly recommend this.
Expect Exactly what you get "B" Horror Movie "Two Thumbs Up" August 25, 2010
DGeorgia
Paul Bettany, and Dennis Quaid are amazing actors no matter what movie they are caste in, It's a really good "B" rated horror movie and I think that's the point
... It was meant to be !! The difference is that the acting is really good. The plot is amazing if you know anything about Judaic-christian mythology But this specific story is about the Apocalypse, The end of the world ... and as far as horror movies go ... this one is kinda cool. if you don't go into the movie expecting too much I think you'll enjoy it immensely.
Needed Megatron! August 16, 2010
Pastor of Disaster (Wexford, Ireland)
Because if you are going to send an Angel to earth to intercede in our earthly matters, don't send Michael and Gabriel, who sound like a rather camp folk duo, but send Megatron, an angel that also converts into a bog truck or a robot or something. Now THAT'S a kick-ass angel.
This film could have been a contender. There were lots of bits of stuff in there that could, with some intelligent writing and a little more thought, have been gelled into an interesting and cohesive film, but sadly, there wasn't and it didn't. Doh!
The good thing that this film did was flush out plenty of religious zealots who want to use words like "blasphemy" which is pretty cool. The problem with trying to make an accusation of blasphemy is....
a) The Bible as we know it is a construct of man, assembled over a long period, with events often first written down hundreds of years after they were alleged to happen, then the whole shooting match was looked at by the Church in around the 3rd of 4th century, and the bits they didn't like were thrown away and suppressed. For political and other more worldly purposes.
b) God, being what he is, likes to adopt a noticeable "hands off" management style, which means that my opinions on what He thinks, His motivations and His way of looking at the world are as well informed as anyone else's on the entire planet. Any man (or woman) who presumes to tell another one that their view of what God wants/thinks/or anything else, would therefore be an act of heresy and they should immediately stone themselves to death.
c) As that greatest of religious leaders, Father Ted, says.. "That's the good thing about Religion, it's all so vague and no-one really knows what it's all about. Amen to that.
So in conclusion, this does not purport to be a re-working of the King James Bible, it is merely a sort of Zombie film with an ecclesiastical twist. Personally, I like the idea that super-natural beings can be easily defeated with machine guns. If it wasn't mean to happen like that, God wouldn't have made it that way.
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