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(Lead) Legion is a fairly low-budget 2010 American action horror film directed by Scott Stewart and co-written by Stewart and Peter Schink. The limited cast includes Paul Bettany, Lucas Black, Tyrese Gibson, Adrianne Palicki, Kate Walsh, and Dennis Quaid. Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions Group acquired most of this film's worldwide distribution rights, and the group opened this film in North America theatrically on January 22, 2010, through Screen Gems. A television series called Dominion, set 25 years after the end of the film, premiered on the American cable television network Syfy on June 19, 2014.

Production
Principal photography took place in New Mexico in the spring of 2008.

Director of Photography, John Lindley. Production designer, Jeff Higinbotham.

''Screenplay Writers are Peter Schink, Scott Stewart. Editor is Steven Kemper. Production designer, LA Unit, Jeff Higinbotham. Music by John Frizzell. Executive Producers are Gary Michael Walters, Scott Stewart, Jonathan Rothbart. Digital Visual Effects are Spin VFX, The Orphanage, LOOK Effects Linc.''

Music by John Frizzell.


 * Tracklisting 1 When I Was a Little Girl  2 Michael Descends  3 It’s Started  4 Old and Pissed Off  5 This Is Not a Test  6 Clouds Don’t Buzz  7 The Aftermath  8 Now What?  9 They’re Here  10 The Ice Cream Man  11 Attack of the Possessed  12 We Got ‘Em Running  13 God’s Plan  14 Percy’s Story  15 Dark World  16 Bob Blames Himself  17 I Didn’t Even Want This Baby  18 Open the Door  19 Are We Safe Now?  20 A Rebellious Son  21 The Battle  22 Die Like One of Them  23 That Is Why You Failed him  24 You Are the True Protector  25 You Are the True Protector (Alternate Version)

Box office
Legion was released on January 22, 2010, in 2,476 theaters and took in $6,686,233—$2,700 per theater its opening day. On its opening weekend it grossed $17,501,625—$7,069 per theater and placed second behind Avatar. It placed No. 6 on its second weekend, and grossed an estimated $6,800,000—$2,746 per theater, a 61.1% drop from the previous weekend. The film has come to gross $67,918,658 worldwide.

Critical response
The film received negative reviews from critics. Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes gives the film a score of 19% based on reviews from 104 critics, with an average rating of 3.78 out of 10. The site's general consensus is: "Despite a solid cast and intermittent thrills, Legion suffers from a curiously languid pace, confused plot, and an excess of dialogue." Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 0–100 reviews from film critics, has a rating score of 32% based on 14 reviews.

Paul Nicholasi of Dread Central gave the film a one and a half out of five stars, saying, "The finished product is shockingly bad. If countless angles of people firing guns with spent shells clinking to the ground is all your heart yearns for, then Legion may be your ideal Saturday night. Hoping for anything more is an exercise in futility. Spare yourself the agony." Brad Miska of Bloody Disgusting gave it 1 out of 5 stars, calling it "a prude film with some potential. It's boring, slow paced and it takes itself way too seriously." Variety film critic Joe Leydon gave the film a mixed analysis. Leydon claimed "Even when the blood-and-thunder hokiness of the over-the-top plot tilts perilously close to absurdity, the admirably straight-faced performances by well-cast lead players provide just enough counterbalance to sustain curiosity and sympathy." Frank Scheck of The Hollywood Reporter also gave the film a mixed review stating, "the goings-on in Legion are seriously silly (not to mention more than a little derivative of endless movies, especially the Terminator series), but director Scott Stewart has provided enough stylish finesse to make the proceedings a real hoot."

Kim Newman's Academic Article, Legion from Sight & Sound, Legion, Sight and Sound, compares ''the film as a mash-up of concepts from Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight, The Terminator, and The Prophecy. Stating,"In most religous-themed-end-of-the-world films- and there are more than you'd think - its the righteous who stand against the dark. Here, it's gun-owners, which suggests how thoroughly screwed-up Legion's values are."''

Legion. By: Newman, Kim, Sight & Sound, 00374806, Apr2010, Vol. 20, Issue 4

''Collis Clark, Entertainment Weekly, refers to this movie as a dull horror movie. "The problem lies not with the cast, and Kate Walsh in particular deserves some sort of medal for the scene in which she narrowly escapes being dissolved by pus. Alas, the script is a rough beast that slouches toward utter ludicrousness. '"The future has been unwritten!" intones Paul Bettany's Michael at one point. But Legion barely seems to have been written at all."''

''Mike Hale, NY Times, says "Unfortunately, the script by Scott Stewart, who directed, and Peter Schink emphasizes stagebound melodramatics and banal television-style catharsis over action and humor." "Amid a bull market for end-of-days tales, “Legion” stands out for its explicitly biblical underpinnings and its claustrophobia."''

Peter Bradshaw, in The Guardian, "Not many horror movies have the decency to let elderly performers steal the show. But Jeanette Miller absolutely walks off with this one, in the robustly written role of a potty-mouthed satanic old lady who takes a fatal bite out of someone's neck. Paul Bettany plays the particularly badass angel who comes to earth in an attempt to stop God and his heavenly armies wiping out humanity."

Dan, the Founder of Inconsistent Pacing, says "Legion, directed by Scott Stewart, flips the script slightly on the general formula. Unlike other films in the same genre, humanity is not under attack by vampires. Nor yet werewolves, or zombies, or demons. Instead, mankind is under assault by the heavenly hosts."

''Editors Notes, of Legion (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) states, "Director Scott Stewart’s vision of the apocalypse is a darkly ambitious blend of supernatural thriller, black comedy, and traditional Western and comic book action, pitting a group of strangers at a remote roadside diner against nothing less than God’s avenging army." ''