Quartile rating: 6/10 · 1 rating
When God loses faith in humankind, he sends his legion of angels to bring on the Apocalypse. Humanity's only hope for survival lies in a group of strangers trapped in an out-of-the-way, desert diner with the Archangel Michael.
Legion has an intriguing high-concept premise—God abandoning humanity and sending angels as instruments of destruction—but squanders it with a formulaic execution. The plot devolves into a siege movie with underdeveloped characters and clunky theological exposition. Acting is largely serviceable at best; Paul Bettany brings some gravitas as Michael but the ensemble is weakly written. Cinematography is competent for a mid-budget genre film, with decent desert atmosphere and some effective creature design, but nothing visually distinctive. The concept of angels as villains had some novelty potential but the film leans heavily on familiar horror-siege tropes. The ending feels rushed and unsatisfying, setting up a sequel that never materialized while failing to deliver a coherent thematic resolution.