Legion

Call it Assault on Manger 13.

Swallowed up by its effort to be a film of multiple genres. The only genre it earns a place in is comedy; it achieves an amount of unwarranted laughs of biblical proportions.

Ah well. At least we know Paul Bettany's mortgage is covered.

Could have been T2 with seraphs, or Assault On Precinct 13 crossed with Revelations. Instead, it's a lazy genre bore. Doesn't bode well for Priest, the next Stewart/Bettany film in the pipeline.

Celestial tosh of less than Biblical proportions.

Bettany's job: rescuing the modern Mary, a skanky waitress, and saving her unborn child. Our job: holding back the laughter.

A forgettable entry for a ton of actors who went on to do better films. The few bright spots never truly get to shine because 'Legion' is such a mess of a movie.

A whole series of familiar tropes wrapped up in a cliché-ridden bow.

Legion is not as bad as it could have been. [Full review in Spanish]

The movie takes its absurdity very very seriously, but somehow it retains the vibe of the sort of flick you used to encounter in the video store in a lurid, battered clamshell case.