Legion (2010)

This weekend I went to see Legion. According to IMDb.com the plot is "An out-of-the-way diner becomes the unlikely battleground for the survival of the human race. When God loses faith in humankind, he sends his legion of angels to bring on the Apocalypse. Humanity's only hope lies in a group of strangers trapped in a desert diner with the Archangel Michael"

I loved the trailer and the idea of this movie. I mean in a world that seems to be getting more and more violent and twisted every day the whole idea of God losing faith isn't so far fetched. I also thought that it would be interesting to see what that would entail, for example; demon possession, crazy old ladies climbing the walls while cursing and gore, lots of gore. I have to admit that some parts of the movie was funny, gory and a little bit creepy. However, the two biggest problems of the movie was;

1. I didn't really care for the main characters. They felt two dimensional, shallowly written and extremely stupid. I mean the one character that was suppose to be the hope of humanity is a girl who got pregnant by one guy, strings another guy along for the ride and smokes while pregnant, it is like the writers couldn't decide which character flaw to give her so they gave her all of them. They also named one of the characters Jeep, which just sounds like a product placement to me because who really names their kids Jeep? At least name him Bentley, Royce or Ford!
   
2. It felt like I was watching a movie trying to hard to be Terminator with the whole "your baby has a destiny". Seriously, I was just waiting for them to name the kid John Connor. Maybe the makers of the movie thought that, like fashion, every 20 years we need to recycle, readjust and remake the movies of our earlier years to fit how they view the world now.

In the end I wish they would've gone more in depth on some of the more crucial subjects of the movie, such as why God lost faith, why this particular baby is important and what happens in the world after the apocalypse comes along.
What we get, however, is kind of a shallow movie that only scratches the surface, cool fighting between the two angels Michael (Paul Bettany) and Gabriel (Kevin Durand), and some pretty awesome acting by Dennis Quaid and Charles S. Dutton.

I guess I have to stick to my weekly episodes of Supernatural to get my fix on in-depth analysis of urban legends, myths, beliefs, pop culture and religion.