Legion (2010)

Director: Scott Stewart

Cast: Paul Bettany as Michael, Lucas Black as Jeep Hanson, Tyrese Gibson as Kyle Williams, Adrianne Palicki as Charlie, Kevin Durand as Gabriel, Jon Tenney as Howard Anderson, Willa Holland as Audrey Anderson, Kate Walsh as Sandra Anderson, Charles S. Dutton as Percy Walker, Dennis Quaid as Bob Hanson, Jeanette Miller as Gladys Foster, Cameron Harlow as Minivan Boy, Doug Jones as Ice Cream Man, Josh Stamberg as Burton, Yancey Arias as Estevez

The overall premise of the film is a little silly yes, but it's
incredibly original and it had so much potential.

The film suffers from a handful of serious flaws that ruin just about
everything good that the film has going for it. The pacing is
horrendous. The action scenes are few, far between and horribly rushed
and the down time in between them slows to a crawl. This time is used
for each of the uninteresting, two-dimensional characters to
melodramatically shed out stories of their troubled pasts. We just
don't care about ANY of them due to minuscule character development and
a horrible script.

The whole film is terribly written with some questionable scenes that
seemed to have been written only for the convenience of the characters.
The plot is pretty simple but mostly unexplained and full of holes. SO
much is left in the dark and the main point of the film isn't even
explained so it's hard to care at all during the supposed dramatic
moments.

Too much talking and not enough action for it to be a wicked B-movie
and the overabundance of melodrama and terrible writing keep it from
being a serious, dramatic epic.

There are slivers of a good film and some great ideas that occasionally
appear and the few, brief action scenes are fairly entertaining, but
everything else is so terribly executed that it isn't worth any kind of
recommendation.