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Legion (2010)

Legion poster
Directed by
Scott Stewart
Genre
fantasy film, action film, horror film, thriller film, zombie film, apocalyptic film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 40m
Rated
R
Rating
5.9 of 10 from 2,901 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A group of strangers must protect an infant messiah from angels and possessed humans during an apocalypse. The story follows their desperate fight for survival against divine forces.

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What happens

Legion is a 2010 American action horror film directed by Scott Stewart and co-written by Stewart and Peter Schink. The film stars Paul Bettany, Lucas Black, Tyrese Gibson, Adrianne Palicki, Kate Walsh, and Dennis Quaid. Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions Group acquired most of the film's worldwide distribution rights, releasing the film theatrically in North America on January 22, 2010, through Screen Gems. A story of the Second Coming, the film follows a group of people as they attempt to protect an infant savior from angels and the possessed in an apocalypse. Legion was released to negative critical reception but was a success at the box office, earning over $67 million on a $26 million budget. A television series titled Dominion, set 25 years after the film, premiered on the American cable television network Syfy on June 19, 2014. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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