Legion (2009)

A group of strangers fight for the welfare of humanity.

Director:

Scott Stewart

Writers:

Peter Schink, Scott Stewart

Stars:

Paul Bettany, Lucas Black, Charles S. Dutton

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Paul Bettany	...	Michael
Lucas Black	...	Jeep Hanson
Tyrese Gibson	...	Kyle Williams
Adrianne Palicki	...	Charlie
Charles S. Dutton	...	Percy Walker
Jon Tenney	...	Howard Anderson
Kevin Durand	...	Gabriel
Willa Holland	...	Audrey Anderson
Kate Walsh	...	Sandra Anderson
Dennis Quaid	...	Bob Hanson
Jeanette Miller	...	Gladys Foster
Cameron Harlow	...	Minivan Boy
Doug Jones	...	Ice Cream Man
Josh Stamberg	...	Burton
Yancey Arias	...	Estevez

Storyline

An out-of-the-way diner becomes the unlikely battleground for the survival of the human race. When God loses faith in humankind, 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 with the Archangel Michael (Bettany).

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Plot Keywords:

angel | diner | apocalypse | faith | human race | 

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Taglines:

When the last angel falls, the fight for mankind begins.

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Genres:

Action | Fantasy | Horror

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated R for strong bloody violence, and language

Details

Official Sites:

Official Facebook Official site

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

22 January 2010 (USA)

Also Known As:

Legión de ángeles

Box Office

Budget:

$26,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend:

£212,328 (UK) (5 March 2010)

Gross:

$40,168,080 (USA) (19 March 2010)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Bold Films

Technical Specs

Runtime:

100 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital DTS SDDS

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

The tattoos on Michael (and later Jeep) are Enochian, a language supposedly of the angels as recorded by John Dee and his seer Edward Kelley in the late 16th century, which they claimed was revealed to them by angels.

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Goofs

When the old grandma toward the beginning of the movie bites Howard's neck, Kyle rushes over to help and starts to take off his scarf to apply pressure to the neck. When the next scene pops up, the scarf has turned into a napkin. The next scene shows it again as a scarf.

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Quotes

[first lines]
Charlie: [voice-over] When I was a little girl, my mother would remind me each night before bed, to open up my heart to God, for He was kind, merciful, and just. Things changed when my father left a few years later, leaving her to raise me and my brothers in a place on the edge of the Mojave Desert. She never talked of a kind and merciful God again. Instead she spoke of a prophecy. Of a time when all the world would be covered in darkness and the fate of mankind would be decided. One night, ...

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Crazy Credits

At the very end of the credits, there is about 10 seconds of "Turkey In The Straw" (the ice cream truck music).

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Connections

Referenced in The Nostalgia Critic: Jungle 2 Jungle (2012)

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Soundtracks

"Die So Young"
Written by Mark William Haggblad, William Daniel Powell, Benjamin M. Lazzaro, Mike Rawluk,
Wayne E Lichte
Performed by Dying Regret
Courtesy of Crucial Music Corporation

User Reviews

A Late-January Misfire... What A Surprise...

Legion (2010) Directed by: Scott Stewart Starring: Paul Bettany, Lucas Black, Adrianne Palicki, Charles S. Dutton, Tyrese Gibson, Kevin Durand, and Dennis Quaid

When God loses faith in Mankind, Archangel Michael (Bettany) loses his faith in God. An out- of-the-way diner becomes an unlikely battleground for the survival of humankind as Michael and a group of strangers defend themselves against God's legion of angels. Michael must protect a mother (Palicki) and her baby, for it is the key to ending the Apocalypse. Let me start off by saying that Legion is not a good movie, however, it is not terrible by any means. Unlike recent biblical horrors (The Unborn comes to mind), Legion tries very hard not to follow the lame clichés of recent horrors; I always commend a film for trying to be good. Unfortunately, it takes itself a little to seriously with God's legion of zombies that are supposed to be possessed by angels. The film also was terribly written, ("What's your beef?" "Simmer down!" "Hold on white boy") with weird scenes that needed some serious editing. Besides the bad script and erratic editing, the acting was terrible. The only exceptions were Paul Bettany (who seemed to have flown into the wrong movie) and Lucas Black (Sling Blade, Friday Night Lights). Everyone else was uninspired and made the bad screenplay look much more terrible than it was. The action scenes are where this film soared. The fight between the two Archangels was incredible, and the visual effects were on par. Overall, Legion is a biblical Assault on Precinct 13. It lacks a good script, editing, cinematography, and acting. I commend it for trying to be less like recent horror films that really shouldn't even call themselves 'films". I think deep down, on the cutting room floor, there was something there, but we don't see it. Legion is by no means horrible, but I can't recommend it.

Rating: 5/10