Legion – Movie Review (Mostly not)
So last night at 7:10pm I got to sit down next to my trusty sidekick Beki and watch Legion. Firstly, the previews were pretty great.
The first one was about the Hot Tub Time Machine (see trailer), which looked really hilarious. I especially liked the bit where the black guy asks what colour Michael Jackson is to find out if they traveled back in time. Priceless. After that we saw one for Death at a Funeral (see trailer) with Chris Rock. Loved the bit where Chris Rock said something about their dead father being in a homosexual relationship with a small person, but Martin Lawrence’s character big hang-up is that the guy is white. It looks like funny stuff, so of course I’d like to see it.
Randomly there was this preview for Takers (see trailer), which has a pretty decent line-up. Paul Walker, Chris Brown, Hayden Christensen, Zoe Saldana (who is in everything right now). All I could think at the end of the preview was…how grossed out was Zoe? I mean she had to be romantically involved with Chris Brown for the movie. Sounds absolutely heinous to me, but I guess the poor guy needs an acting career since he fubared the rest when he pummelled Rihanna.
FINALLY ABOUT THE MOVIE
I don’t even know how to put it all into words. I thought it was an absolutely fantastic film. The selection of Paul Bettany for Michael was perfect. I totally loved him in the role. The guy who played Gabriel not so much, but it’s probably because I liked the fact that Constantine had a gender-bending version of Gabriel as one of its angels (boy was she/he crazy or what). Dennis Quaid was cool too. Okay, everyone was pretty cool. I just liked it all.
Where was I?
This is a lot like the story of Mary and Joseph and baby Jesus with a little dash of god being vengeful. I am just now realizing that I can’t really say much without giving something away. You’re just going to have to WATCH THE TRAILER and take my word for it that it’s worth going to see. It’s one of those things where you just need to see it and you’ll get it. I’m sure someone out there will hate it, but I really couldn’t care less. It was really interesting story, the time flew by.
9/10 Grade
