In this supernatural thriller, God has forsaken humanity, rather completely turned on them, and is now sending angels to destroy our race. There is one child who is mankind's hope and that child is still unborn in the womb of a young mother living by a diner with her father and another young man. Come to save them from the rest is the archangel Michael, who has rebelled against God to come to earth.
The premise of this film alone is enough to take a dive. The idea that angels would come to destroy humanity and take vessels in humans in a demonic state is grasping on the edge. Paul Bettany is convincing as an overly serious angel bent on saving humanity, but even his performance can't save this film. The story carries a cast of characters so one dimensional and stereotypical we have no grounds to care. They carry out their duties and some die and others don't. It's the apocalypse centered on a small diner.
The story of Legion is similar to that of Children of Men. Humanity is lost and only one child can save them. The exception is that Children of Men worked. There is nothing in Legion that causes us to care if the child lives or dies, or anyone else for that matter. The film downplays God to that of a human child who can't decide what he wants. As Michael says at one point to another archangel, "You gave God what he wanted. I gave him what he needed." And to give a storybook ending, the film is narrated by the girl in which she speaks of her mother telling her at bedtime that at one time God got tired of all the people. When she asked her mother why, the answer came, "I guess he just got tired of all the bullsh*t."
That's also what I got tired of during this film.
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