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Legion

EMAILPRINTScreen Gems (Sony)

Legion reviews
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3.1 User Score:

Generally unfavorable reviews

Based on 14 critic reviews
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Based on 52 votes
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Movie Info

Genre(s): Action  |  Fantasy  |  Horror  |  Suspense/Thriller

Written by: Scott Stewart
Peter Schink

Directed by: Scott Stewart

Release Date:
Theatrical: January 22, 2010

Running Time: 110 minutes, Color

Origin: USA

Summary

RATING: R for strong bloody violence, and language

Starring Paul Bettany, Dennis Quaid, Tyrese Gibson, Jon Tenney, Charles S. Dutton, Lucas Black, Kate Walsh, Doug Jones, Adrianne Palicki, and Kevin Durand

When God loses faith in Mankind, he sends his legion of angels to bring on the Apocalypse. Humanity's only hope lies in a group of strangers trapped in a desert diner and the Archangel Michael. (Sony Pictures)

What The Critics Said

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...

60

Variety Joe Leydon

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.

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60

The Hollywood Reporter Frank Scheck

The film has enough entertaining action and sly humor to please its target audience.

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60

Time Out New York Keith Uhlich

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

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42

Entertainment Weekly Clark Collis

After a brisk start, the script turns out to be a rough and humorless beast slouching its way towards utter ludicrousness.

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40

New York Daily News Elizabeth Weitzman

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.

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40

Boxoffice Magazine Pete Hammond

Essentially a B-movie dressed up with A-level special effects, Legion looks spiffy but sounds bad with a lot of overwritten dialogue scenes and predictable action.

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40

The New York Times Mike Hale

The leaden dialogue and flat-footed storytelling hobble a talented cast.

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40

Village Voice Ernest Hardy

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.

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33

The Onion (A.V. Club) Tasha Robinson

A cartoonishly grim supernatural thriller that could stand a lot less talk and a lot more thrills.

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30

Los Angeles Times Robert Abele

Legion may traffic in signposts of the apocalypse, but the whole affair mostly indicates that we're in the movie wasteland that is January.

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30

Chicago Reader Cliff Doerksen

This feature debut by writer-director Scott Stewart may sound like an enjoyably goofy theo-horror romp, but it's a serious penance.

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25

Orlando Sentinel Roger Moore

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

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20

Austin Chronicle Marc Savlov

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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20

Empire Nick de Semlyen

Could have been T2 with seraphs, or Assault On Precinct 13 crossed with Revelations. Instead, it’s a lazy genre bore. Doesn’t bode well for Priest, the next Stewart/Bettany film in the pipeline.

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What Our Users Said

The average user rating for this movie is 3.1 (out of 10) based on 52 User Votes

Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Daniel S gave it a0:
The movie was a complete letdown. Almost entirely takes place in the diner. Trailers tend to point towards a brainless action movie, but it is not even that, because all the action in the movie barely fills the trailer. A lot of dull, pointless talking. The reviews for this movie are more entertaining than the movie itself.

Walter S. gave it a3:
Poorly plotted, disconnected and vague. I just didn't enjoy this film.

D P gave it a4:
Not the greatest film ever then again what can anyone expect from a movie with Dennis Quaid in it... Oh and anybody who hasn't actually watched the movie, SASHA, should keep their useless opinions about the movie to themselves... quit clogging up the internet with your miserable assumptions.

Yvonne V. gave it a1:
Almost gave it a 0, but I liked the Ice Cream man. The acting was extremely cheesy. I wasted $21.

Steve gave it an8:
This was just an all around good-action and well-acted movie.

Dammit gave it an8:
Not sure what you folks were expecting, but I really enjoyed this film!

J C gave it a1:
It was a bad movie, extremely poor plot development and I felt more attached to the characters that actually died then the survivors of the movie. The movie spent half the time establishing plot it never needed and did not spend enough time establishing plot it did need. Thumbs down. I give this movie a 1 because it had 1 meritable innovation, a Spinning Bladed Mace.

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