karinrjeffrey This isn't the great art, but there are guilty pleasures aplenty in this ambitious take on the rebel angels theme. Who hasn't wondered if God has just given up on humanity? Fortunately, humanity has Paul Bettany as rebel angel Michael and he is not given up on humanity, but is burning with glorious purpose. In this movie it's convincing some folks in a run-down diner that all he movie has consistently good performances by all the cast. Fun ride.

GL84 While gathered at a remote truck-stop diner, a small group of inhabitants finds that the mysterious stranger who arrives is an Angel of Heaven looking to keep a pregnant member of the group alive as God sends forth an army to wipe them out as part of his Armageddon plans.Overall this one was quite an enjoyable effort. The biggest factor for this one is the fact that this one really lets loose with lots of great action throughout here, giving this one so much to really like here from the numerous encounters. There's tons of bloodshed and some creepy moments here and there from scenes like the first shootout from the armory with the turned policemen, the diners' encounter with the old woman who begins flying around the ceiling attempting to get at them in the middle of a huge gunfight and the blazing firefight on the top of the establishment with the endless stream of possessed coming along in cars leading to the flaming crashes and burning bodies left behind as the gunfights take out dozens more in fine fashion. The other ambushes on the patrons inside the diner are quite fun as they attempt to break in and get at them forcing some thrilling action to barricade them off which makes the whole segment quite fun along with the later attacks here with the trap involving the family coming to the gas pump and setting off the trap which is quite a blast overall here. The big final assault here makes for quite a big spectacle here as the initial charge on the building and the pre-natal conflict to keep the baby alive in the midst of a furious hand-to-hand battle between the supernaturally-powered aggressors throwing each other around the diner and brawling with intensity and fervor that matches the brutality of what's coming on. The spiritual context of the fight helps to give this a stronger sense of fantasy and spectacle than otherwise expected, which gives this one a great visual sense to go along with the engaging story which gives this another piece of the strong plot. As well, the fact that there's a lot to like with its make-up work on the possessed deformities and the strong, bloody gore all work together with these factors here to make this a rather enjoyable effort. There's not a whole lot really wrong here, as there's really only one main problem here as there's some truly bad and obvious CGI found here. The transitions from the possessed as they begin jumping and flying around in really ludicrous manners that are tacky and stand-out in the diner attacks and the finale which are the most obvious and distracting parts. Otherwise, there wasn't a lot of other flaws here.Rated R: Graphic Violence, Graphic Language, violence-against- children, drug use and strong religious themes.

Jackson Booth-Millard There may have a few occasions I thought of the poster for this film, the leading actor with angel wings, and mistook it for the 2011 film Priest, easy mistake, it has a religious sort of format, it is the same leading actor, and the same director, Scott Stewart (Dark Skies), I hoped this would be good. Basically God has lost all faith in mankind, the Archangel Michael (Paul Bettany) has ordered by the Lord, in addition to a legion of other angels, to bring the Apocalypse to Earth and exterminate the human race. However Michael rebels against his orders, he has fallen to Earth in Los Angeles, and cuts off his wings, he wants to help the humans, he steals a series of automatic weapons and a police car. Meanwhile in a diner in the middle of nowhere in the New Maxico desert, business is running as usual, with owner Bob Hanson (Dennis Quaid), his son Jeep (The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift's Lucas Black), his friend and cook Percy Walker (Alien 3's Charles S. Dutton), and pregnant waitress Charlie (Adrianne Palicki). Also present at the diner are single father Kyle Williams (2 Fast 2 Furious's Tyrese Gibson), and married couple Howard (Jon Tenney) and Sandra Anderson (Kate Walsh), with their rebellious teenage daughter Audrey (Willa Holland). Then an elderly woman named Gladys Foster (Jeanette Miller) comes into the diner, acts strangely, telling Charlie her baby is going to "burn", and making insults, she then suddenly attacks and crawls on the walls and ceiling like a spider, before being shot. Moments later the sky is darkened by clouds, and the phones and radios are down, the diner and all inhabitants are completely cut off from the outside world, then Michael arrives, he begins handing out guns, explains the situation with God against humanity, and says that Charlie's baby will be the saviour of the world. The diner is now in danger of the impending arrival of many angels, no longer good creatures like humanity assumes, they have taken over the bodies of many innocent civilians, and become rampaging zombie-like creatures, who will do anything to kill them. In the end, after many of the human characters have been killed, and those remaining, including Charlie who has given birth to her child, have escaped the wrath of God, and Michael has confronted Gabriel (Kevin Durand), God has rescinded the order, and Michael returns to Heaven. Also starring Hellboy's Doug Jones as Ice Cream Man, Josh Stamberg as Burton and Yancey Arias as Estevez. Bettany is certainly imposing as the rogue archangel, supporting cast members Quaid and Gibson do well also, it is a simplistic story, an angel coming to save the world and protecting what could be the new messiah, and it does have some good special effects and face-paced battle sequences, overall it is a simple but entertaining enough apocalyptic supernatural action horror film. Worth watching!

oscar-35 *Spoiler/plot- Legion, 2010. On Earth, moral humans get mixed up in biblical prophesy regarding the Messiah and coming of God's justice on Earth. Archangelic beings arrive on Earth battle to assist the world's history.*Special Stars- Paul Bettany, Kevin Durand, Lucas Black, Tyrese Gibson, Adrianna Palicki, Charles S. Dutton, Dennis Quaid. *Theme- God gives and takes away based on human free choice. *Trivia/location/goofs- The name of the diner is "Paradise Falls", a reference to the changing nature of God's attitude to man and the nature of angels from protectors to destroyers. Also a nod to John Milton's Paradise Lost, where it describes the fall of Satan to earth and the war between angels and man. The tattoos on Michael (and later Jeep) are Enochian, a language supposedly of the angels as recorded by John Dee and his seer Edward Kelley in the late 16th century, which they claimed was revealed to them by angels.*Emotion- A mystical thriller about a couple getting involved in some biblical apocalyptic matters. Film has a very confusing plot and the snap editing manages to keep the viewer somewhat informed and involved. The story is not very entertaining or hopeful. *Based On- Early Bible legends.