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20 Jan 2010

Legion

Watch this for the unintentional camp value of seeing archangels battle each other like American Gladiators in what really looks like circuit party angel costumes.

Director: Scott Stewart

Language: English

Cast: Paul Bettany, Dennis Quaid, Adrianne Palicki, Lucas Black, Kevin Durand, Tyrese Gibson

Release Date: 21 January 2010 

Rating: NC16 - Some Violence and Coarse Language


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Conservative preachers are inclined towards blaming the decline and fall of modern civilisation on early exposure to anime and manga. From Evangelion, when God begins the Final Judgement on mankind, angels will be sent down to commit genocide – preferably in the form of giant robots. From Angel Sanctuary, angels could be amoral, heartless, heart breakingly beautiful and perverted – just the kind of role model a growing boy needed. (The rest, as they say, is history)

I’ll venture that if the creators of Evangelion and Angel Sanctuary were in charge of evangelism, we could see an explosion in spirituality and church attendance. In fact, I lost my believe when I realise that angels weren’t supposed to be ambiguously gay and malevolently badass – though there was a brief moment when my belief was rekindled by the excellent The Prophecy, which was just about the only Hollywood movie to best the Japanese at their own game. It starred Christopher Walken as the Archangel Gabriel waging a civil war in heaven against God, and Viggo Mortensen as the Devil!

Shockingly, Legion is Hollywood’s second ever attempt at creating an alternative theology. To put it briefly, God enacts his Final Judgement on mankind, sending angels to commit genocide, with a key mission to murder the Second Coming of Christ – preferably when he’s still an unborn child. The archangel Michael (Paul Bettany) rebels against heaven, arms himself with loads of firearms and sets off to protect the modern Mary and Joseph.

What first-time director Stewart does is to take this alternative theology and merge it with modern horror film aesthetics. The angels, for example, carry out their work by possessing human beings and turning them into zombies and putrefying monsters. This makes for excellent visuals, but how this fits into the lore of this fictional universe (presumably it is Michael who falls, not the heavenly host or God) is unclear.

Reader's Comments

1. 2010-01-21 08:30  
Would it kill you guys to proof-read before publishing? When are we going to see an article without errors?

Also, seriously, you consider 'The Prophesy' good? The only other person who watched it with me in an otherwise empty cinema in Budapest was an elderly woman who walked out 30 minutes in. Obviously the Hungarians know better cinema than the Singaporeans.
Comment #2 was deleted by its author on 2010-01-22 00:28
3. 2010-01-22 00:34  
Maybe you did watch a movie called "The Prophesy" and mistook it for "The Prophecy"? Accidents do happen, heh.

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