My friend and I had been waiting since September of oh nine to see this movie, and it was well worth the wait. Legion is among the most intense apocalyptic movies I’ve seen in a long time. I have very little complaints.

The story follows a group of people at a gas station diner in the middle of nowhere desert. Among them are the father and son team that run the place, a one handed chef, a pregnant waitress, and some travellers seeking car repairs and directions the hell out of there.

It seems like a pretty normal situation until an old lady shows up, and tells the pregnant woman that her baby is going to burn. Shit turns crazy when the old lady takes a bite out of one of the travellers necks and climbs the walls in a straight-out-of-the-exorcist style scene.

When she’s finally taken care of with a comically stereotypical shot fired from the token black guys concealed weapon, a stranger shows up. Michael. Now, Michael is a complete bad ass angel who’s chosen to go against God’s word.

What I like most about Legion is the way it takes on the explanation of the situation. In other films when a character asks the main badass what’s going on, they take five or ten minutes and explain the whole ordeal. Michael does that, but he seems hurried the entire way through, which is the way it should be. Angels are coming to kill you, and you’re sitting around discussing it? Not on Michael’s watch.

However, little, to no explination has it’s downfalls as well. If you’re not familiar with Angelic lore at all, you’d have missed the point behind the Earth shaking sound that comes shortly before the appearance of Gabriel. In lore Gabriel is always pictured with a horn, I thought the horn blast was really well done. Very well done, you get the sense of impending doom when you hear it. But they skipped telling you what it was.

However, this is soon forgotten during the Angel fight.

I wont give away the ending, but I will say that it could have been a little less cheesy in my opinion, but it did the job. All in all a pretty entertaining end of the world scenario, I think it was worth the ten bucks just to see it on the big screen. I’m not sure if I would buy the DVD though, it feels more like a rental, or a download.

Either way, later.