Oh. My. God. Scott Stewart's Legion (he directed and co-wrote). Where to begin on this. A festival of action film cliches? Check. Stereotyping gone wild? Check. This was like watching Dogma, only it wasn't supposed to be funny, and Kevin Smith had done his research for his film. First off, The Archangel (for those who believe), is Gabriel, not Michael. Secondly, God does not have an army of Terminators with wings waiting to annihilate the human race (so I am told). This movie is just awful. In every conceivable way. The script wants to be a morality play, then an action movie, then a zombie movie. It's like Scott Stewart and Peter Schink were grade school buddies who wrote a script in grade school and tried to tweak it into something comprehensible as they got older. It had to be rednecks that were the trapped victims here, no other stereotype could possibly be stupid enough to believe/ignore all of the cliche portents and situations flying by them.
The acting quality remains consistent with the rest of this turd. Even Dennis Quaid (he's done everything, look him up) can't salvage a believable performance. I am a fan of Paul Bettany (The DaVinci Code, A Knight's Tale), but this role is best forgotten by fans. This is as far from his best as the North Pole is from the South. Oh, and by the way Hollywood, just because some one is "attractive", doesn't mean they can act. The rest of the twenty-something cast is abysmal. I truly cannot say enough bad things about this "movie".
So to sum up, run screaming from this movie. There is no water hot enough to wash its taint from your eyes. You cannot unsee it. If you pass this in your video store, or on Netflix, for God's sake keep moving before you get a rash. Biblically bad. 2/10.
After only 12 days of serious film watching, I am really beginning to feel for real (read; paid) movie critics out there. There are truly more bad movies than good. The real artists on most of these movies are the creators of the trailers. To be able to cobble together something tempting from a mound of shit must take real talent.
Tomorrow's movie: John McClane in Surrogates. See you then, and GO WATCH A MOVIE!!
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