Legion: What possessed me to see this movie?
Movie Reviews January 30th. 2010, 10:24amAnother end of the world flick. This time angels come to finish us off and there might be a story in there somewhere, but this movie misses on almost every level. I was tricked by the trailer, which is better than the whole movie. Whoever edited the trailer, should have done the whole movie. The collection of stereotyped characters was embarrassing. A black hoodlum, a white yuppie family, an old man who lost his faith?? Come on, show us some respect. And the setting for this morality play is a little diner in the desert called Paradise Falls. Not too subtle folks. Lots of guns, but no training for the actors, just never ending magazines as they shoot from the hip and hit what they want. The acting was OK. Kudos to Dennis Quaid and Charles Dutton for being able to do a take without laughing at themselves. It must have been difficult. Thankfully all the sinners are redeemed, usually by a gruesome death, and the film ends with a climactic angel vs. angel fight that they put a lot of effort in and apparently thought the audience would take seriously. I couldn’t. At least the human race was saved by the birth of a baby sometime around Christmas. I wonder if that is supposed to mean something? This may be a top contender for Rotten Tomatoes best of the worst.