The movie follows the fallen angel Michael as he tries to save a baby from unknown forces that are trying to keep it from being birthed.
This is where the major sacrilage comes in. The unknown forces are actually the holy army of heaven. The movie claims that like Noah and the flood in the Bible, God is once again upset with humanity and trying to wipe them out of existance. So basically, God wants an abortion.
Michael ends up fighting some other angel (who cares which one). He's killed and sent to heaven which is depicted as some shiny, flourecent eight-year-old's idea of heaven and not that of an intelligent, logical adult.
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God then decides he was wrong about humanity and sends Michael to kill the angels that God had originally sent to kill the baby and it's never explained why in the name of God almighty the baby is the key to salvation.
As you can tell, the plot gets a little convuluted.
Sacrilege aside, this movie tries extremely hard to be a good mainstream action movie.
There's the usual action movie arch-types, inchluding the underdog protagonist who seems to be the nicest guy in the world yet still gets the short straw in life, the racial and social stereotypes that at first seem to be true, but are then undermined following some act of heroism, and the badass action hero who arrives out of nowhere and speaks in cryptic messages.
The movie stars the guy from "The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift" as Jeep, the protagonist and protector of the baby. Jeep is given most of the dramatic work including a fake and completely noiticable country accent.
Excuse my little tyrade, but do the writers and director of this film think that country folk love automobiles so much they'd resort to naming their children after them. And what's worse is that Jeep is named after the most dangerous and flippable of the automobiles -- no safety-minded parent would even consider naming their child Jeep.
The movie's most ridiculousy cheesy moments come in the numerous self-aware, social commentating character soliloquoys as they wait for God to smite them.
"I've seen some people...who realize that the being lost is so close to being found." Michael spouts that philosophical nugget as he is explaining to Jeep why he hasn't lost faith in humanity.
Please, can someone tell me what that means?
I don't know, but if you want more nonsense click on this link.
Legion tries too hard to provide some sort of religous and philosophical insight instead of actually focusing on being an entertaining action movie.
I guess when you try too hard to be a source of inspiration, you actually become a source of discouragement. Words to live by.
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