Well, I saw Legion. The trailers had me curious.
Interesting concept: The movie is about God losing faith in mankind and sending His angels to earth to destroy humans. Yet, the angel "Michael", falls to earth, cuts his wings off, and rebels against God by trying to protect one group of people from being slain by angel-possessed humans.
I didn't like this movie because of how it made God look like an @$$hole. History is endless with how many times God has tried to convince humans how much love and hope He has for us. Plus, historic documentation, such as Genesis chapter 9, sections 8 through 17, explain how God will not whipe out mankind due to our decline into evilness. But whatever, it was just a movie, right?
Still, I despised the underlining theme that the movie preached to society: that God is bad, and being unGodly is the correct way for a person to live their life. Yeah, there are a few scenes in the movie where the character Michael (Paul Bettany) does deliver righteous dialogue. Some lines felt convicting, or atleast gave the philosophers in the audience something to chew on. In the movie, Bob Hanson (Dennis Quaid) says, "I don't even believe in God." Then, Michael (Bettany) replies, "Well, He doesn't believe in you either."
It would be horrifying to think about what life would be like if God got tired of our bull$#!+. But the gracious part is: God is not human. Our God is a loving God and has abundant patience. As despicable as we've become, He remains patient in waiting for us to choose to love Him. Sadly, with all the blessings in life we receive from God, many of us will still choose to disrespect, hate, and deny Him.
In the film, there is no mention of anything evil. No demons, no satan, nothing. Interesting. However, the "first wave" of angels that came to earth in this film seemed more like demons, especially with the possessed characteristics. If you haven't seen the film, I'm sure you've seen the previews with the evil looking grandma.
Sure it bothered me that the movie made God look like a douche, but it also hurt that the movie (like so many other Hollywood made motion pictures) portrayed "Jesus Freaks" as being unrighteously judgemental. One character in the movie gets picked on by "an angel-possessed" grandma for being pregnant without having a husband. The character retorts the phrase "Jesus Freak", as if it is common for "Jesus Freaks" to pass unrighteous judgement on people.
I did like how the two main angels in the movie, Michael and Gabriel (Kevin Durand), where portrayed as very masculine and warrior like. Though they didn't get into it, there were minuscule hints of the technology in Heaven. The heavenly technology, mainly Gabriel's hand-held mace, and all the man-made assault rifles that Michael dual-wielded made the film's action sequences very cool.
For me, the movie started off blasphemous, turned awesome, felt convicting, then ended gay.
If you have to choose between going to see this movie or the other one, choose the other one. I should have NetFlixed this. If for some reason I do end up owning this insult, it will collect dust next to Dawn of the Dead and The Parent Trap.
No sex scenes.
No sexual references.
Violence, people getting shot, dying.
Lots of guns.
Adult Language.
Rated: R
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