LEGION
3 out of 5 stars

bob: "you know this is crazy, right? i mean... i don't even believe in god."

michael the archangel: "well, that's just fine, bob. because he doesn't believe in you either."

umm... i might have given this one an extra star due to the fact... that paul bettany is in this one! (it was actually quite surprising but his face is very angelic, methinks! :P)

this religious-horror flick is all about demony-angels (is that suppose to be an oxy-moron?) trying to exterminate the human race. GOD has lost faith in mankind, and decides to give the order to "cleanse" the earth. the archangel michael (bettany) is sent to earth to carry out a hit on the messiah baby, but he disobeys those orders and tries to help a group of people holed up at a truck stop in the middle of the mojave desert. he also protects the messiah baby and its mother, all the while gabriel (the other archangel and martin keamy from LOST!) is sent by GOD in a second attempt to kill the baby. oh, and then randy quaid and tyrese kill a bunch of angels with semi-automatic weapons...

there seems to be a new genre emerging these days with strange mashups like reli-horror and horror-comedy, but i think reli-horror doesn't really work since it really has to focus on one or the other... i felt like this could have been great as a straight-up horror flick with posessed people attacking the truck stop or even having this random group of people turn on one another. the whole angel/GOD thing really threw me off because it felt almost like another storyline within this one. that or focus more on the relationship of the angels! (it's almost heartbreaking to see the great paul bettany reduced down from his true ability...) however, there are some REALLY CREEPY moments in this movie, where you really feel scared for these people's lives... i.e. the ice-cream truck "angel"- WTF!; the "trap" with the minivan; the stillness of the final escape!

oh! and i don't appreciate the fact that michael knew that a korean toy warehouse housed weapons in downtown L.A.! jerks... :P