(Movie Review) Legion

Remember a time when Paul Bettany and Dennis Quaid made movies that didn't suck? It really wasn't that long ago. 2001 Bettany turned in a wonderful performance in A Beautiful Mind. Hell, even as Silas in The Da Vinci Code (2006). Quaid is even a more impressive case. Movies like Enemy Mine, Frequency, The Day After Tomorrow and The Rookie are barely scratching the surface of the actors 40 year career. So, why would they both put their names on something as pointless and silly as Legion? My guess is for the same reason Bettany did Priest...the paycheck.

Plot: 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).

Thoughts? The movie is not the worst thing that either Bettany or Quaid have been in. Priest is way worse than this. It's a silly movie. There is no real heart to it. The angel fights are trash, the special effects are not that special, and the only thing that it somehow does well is makes Bettany a believable bad ass. If you see it on TV one day, maaaaaybe check it out. I wouldn't pay to see it, not even from Red Box.