Review – Legion

Mark 5:1-20 – the story of Christ exorcising a demon(s) named Legion – is fascinating, potentially even scary. And yet the actual story has been largely ignored both by religious folk making movies out of the Gospels and by horror picture producers exploiting the name for some cheap thrills. This movie is no exception. Though the scary scenes and the action sequences are reasonably effective, they represent only a small percentage of the overall running time. The rest is devoted mostly to comic book pseudo-theology as the last scraps of humanity struggle to figure out why they’re suddenly surrounded by demons and – with the aid of an archangel – try to find a way out of their predicament. Locating most of the action in a diner in the middle of nowhere gives the production the distinct odor of Maximum Overdrive only with more demoniacs and fewer trucks. Mildly amusing