What happens when God loses patience with the sinful ways of mankind?
The action fantasy Legion, starring Paul Bettany, has the answer.
Heres Daves review…
Angels are awesome!
Jeep and Bob are confrontational over Charlies reliance on Jeep (who isnt the father).
Somewhere along the line, it turns out that Jeep has been dreaming incredibly dark dreams about Charlie.
Thats the character development over and done with.
Within moments, the first death happens and chaos begins.
Thankfully, Michael arrives to explain things.
Theres consternation and confusion, but slowly people are convinced that Michael is the real deal.
Bettany and Black carry the film through the drudgery of poor scriptwriting.
His clipped dialogue ripples with malice and meaning.
Quaid should be given credit for handling some particularly dire dialogue with style.
Its just a bit plodding, complicated, dialogue-heavy and dull, with interesting bits few and far between.
Theres plenty of stuff to look at as the siege on the diner increases.
Particularly spectacular are the various explosions and interesting creatures that lay waste to the diner.
Its not a terrible film by any stretch of the imagination.
Its just a jumbled film that doesnt seem to know what it wants to be.
Turn it up as high as you could because its definitely worth it.
The picture quality is pretty darned good too.
As for bitrate, youre looking at in excess of 27Mbps for most of the film.
MovieIQis available to those with BD-Live, providing details on scenes, music and actors.
Its a bit like having the Internet Movie Database and Wikipedia to hand throughout the film.
Bringing Angels To Earthoffers picture-in-picture commentary on the film, with Scott Stewart and the cast and crew.
It covers the creation of the film, special effects and the challenges of filming in New Mexico.
The cast seem to have had a pretty good time and bonded well.
Humanities Last Line Of Defenceis about the human characters in the film and the actors that played them.
Various cast members talk about why they got involved.
All of them seem to have been excited about the project and fed off each other.
Its a bit short at 11 minutes, but is moderately interesting.
Again, its too short at 10 minutes, especially considering the amount of visual effects inLegion.
The benefit of this is, of course, they could build in the best places to shoot from.
Watching this makes you appreciate the work that they did.
Told you they were random!
Film:
Legionis out now on Blu-ray andavailable from the Den Of Geek Store.
Rating:
2 out of 5
