+ 3rd Worst Movie of the Year
 |
| Paul Betttany with wings on this brooding poster for Scott Stewart's Legion |
God has lost faith in humanity (for some unknown reason), and so He sends his army of angels to annihilate us. But one woman is pregnant with a savior, and one angel fights for us.
This blasphemous mess is served with terrible dialog, (courtesy of writer Peter Schink (Gotham Cafe (2005), short) and co-writer-director Scott Stewart (Dark Skies (2013))), which is so sentimental and thick as to be completely ridiculous. The only extenuating element of this awful film is some of its effects, namely a couple of its monsters, an old lady zombie and one weirdo with very long arms and legs.
Related posts:
2010 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED III]
2010 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED II]
2010 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess [UPDATED I]
2010 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess
Watch a trailer for the film here
Cost: 26 mil. $
Box office: 67.9 mil. $
= Box office success
[Legion was released January 22 and runs 100 minutes. It was filmed in New Mexico from August 2008 - February 2009. The film opened #2 with a 17.5 mil. $ first weekend, (behind Avatar, dropping to #6 in its 2nd week), in North America, where it grossed 40.1 mil. $ (59.1 % of the total gross.) Its 2nd and 3rd biggest markets were Russia with 7.3 mil. $ (10.8 %) and Spain with 3.2 mil. $ (4.7 %). A spinoff series titled Dominion was headed by Stewart for SyFy in 2014 and got canceled after its second season. Legion is rotten at 19 % with a 3.8 critical average at Rotten Tomatoes.]
What do you think of Legion?
No comments:
Post a Comment