I have no idea if Legion (The movie) is coming to Jordan, it is out today in America, with the new law (few years) tightening the limits on Blasphemy, this movie could be Illegal, i am not sure yet, but from what i understand of the law talking about it could be illegal.
If indeed this movie does not make it to theaters because of it’s clear hinting and aim, i am going to Egypt to see it (Or wherever it is playing).
Anyway, here are my thoughts on the movie if i understand right (Although sharing my thoughts could be illegal as well from what i understand from the law), here is what i think.
I think the AIM of this is, when you are in the theater, if you are like me, you always want the good guy to win right, the guy that fights for the Human race and for the week etc….
Well, what if he who wants to end the human race is God (Remember Noah, yeah that kind of mass godly murder ?) and a rebel angel decides to save the human race ? which side would you be on ? i would certainly want the angel (Micheal in this case) to win.
I couldn’t help notice how similar this thing is to God’s secret army, (or The Prophecy in America), but that one is pure entertainment, this one actually makes a point.
In god’s secret army, if i recall right, more angels decide to follow Lucifer’s footsteps and rebel against god, so god sends his angel’s to earth to deal with the outlaw angels, Then some humans get in the way, and angels didn’t really care for humans, they only wanted to get the Job done
Anyway, in this Legion, things are different, here is what i make of the trailer, the green band and the red band are very similar.
1- It’s a horror movie, remember….
2- Inspiration from the terminator.
A girl is pregnant with the one who can save the race, someone needs to protect her and him
3- Micheal is on the Human’s side, Agains’t god’s will
* Some note worthy quotes from the actual movie trailer (The only one that exists up to now)
- The last time god lost faith in man, he sent the flood, This time, he sent angels
- Micheal: I knew he was going to send you Gabriel, you were always eager to please him
Gabriel: Unlike you
In the Red Band trailer.
The trailer starts with an ice cream bus playing the ice cream music reading “Frosty treats”, the bus stops, A thin guy comes out (An angel as you will see later), then his arms extend and he gives the impression of an angry predator that starts to move forward on all 4, where the trailer jumps to the next seen where a voice speaks about a prophecy her mother told her
When i was a little girl, my mother spoke of a prophecy, of a time where all the world would be covered in darkness and the fate of mankind would be decided, one night i had the courage to ask my mother why god had changed, why he was so mad at his children, she said, i guess he just got tiered of all the bullshit
In the red band trailer, Although we see a man with wings (Maybe god, but the wings look like those of Gabriel from later in the trailer), and unlike the green trailer, NO voice says “The last time god lost faith in man, he sent the flood, This time, he sent angels”, Only the green one says that, this one, Micheal drops to a street on earth, And it seems, cuts his angel wings with a knife, and a strange ring around his neck tightens then breaks.
A police car goes by somewhere, a burning cross opening in the wall, and Micheal exiting it with a couple of bags as a police patrol stops him, the police man asks him to put his hands on his head, and he says there isin’t much time, the police man attacks him (But fails againt the angel), and a spirit enteres into the second police man, the spirit says “What are you doing micheal ? Micheal replies, i’m following my own orders now, Then you will die along with the child the spirit responds, and the second police man shioots at micheal, micheal shoots back and then says “It Started”"
A police car moves across the street and all the lights go off as the car goes.
Now the scene goes to a diner in a gas station where someone turns the TV on and a “This is not a test” appears, EBS… then an old lady that is in the diner (In the other trailer you see her entering) says “Oh you don’t have to worry about that, It’l all be over soon.
the old lady (In both trailers talks to a pregnant waitress):
Old Lady: How far along are you
Waitress : Ah Just about there
Old Lady : But the baby
Waitress : I got it under control
Old Lady: But it’s gonna burn
Waitress: What did you just say ?
Old Lady : I said your fucken baby’s gonna burn
Waiter: How, How
Someone: I don’t know who the hell you think you are, But i’d like you to appologize right now
Then the old lady bites the man in the neck and he falls to the ground, then the old lady says “Your all gonna fucken die”, and starts climbing the walls to the ceiling, one man with a rifel, and another yelling shoot her, he does, and the old lady drops to the floor.
Somebody’s commin.
A police car approaches, and one of the guys says “Now What”, The police car stops in a very wiggly fashion due to speed, and Micheal comes out of the police car
He doesen’t look like any police man i ever saw, Even one from LA
Take one more step and i’ll drop you right there, the guy tells the police man, where the police man (Micheal) responds, “You dont know do you ?”
Don’t know what asks the man, and Micheal takes the rifle and points it to the guy and says, there here…
Police cars come all together, with police men acting like the one that the strange spirit was in in the beginning of the trailer
A girl asks, are you here to protect us , and the angel responds with “No Not you, her”, Why me ? “Because your child is the only hope humanity has of surviving”, and the lady says, i don’t even own a car.
Alright Rambo, do you mind tellin us what were fighting ? and Micheal responds with “Angels”
Then a flock of angels (appearing as Humans with wings) appear in the trailer, Gabriel enters the room
Micheal: I knew he was going to send you Gabriel, you were always eager to please him
Gabriel: Unlike you
They just want the child
I don’t even beleiv in god, then the angel responds, “Just found that he doesen’t beleive in you either”
Then someone sets fire to a car direct from the a gasolene pump.
An angel seems to be fighting the Micheal angel with his wings !
Are you saying this is the epocalypse ? I’m saying this is an extermination
Then the girl asks micheal, are we safe now, and the angel responds, NO
And the red banner trailer is done, here take a look at it, but as you can see above, there are some scary part, the one that takes you by surprise is when the old lady at the diner bites the man in the neck, otherwise, i would say it is scary but not extremely.
Since the trailer has been removed from Youtube, you will need to google out “legion red band” and you will clearly get the Red Band trailer links in the google video links area.
