Three Things I Learned From Legion

I caught a free screening of Legion last night, which was a lot better than I ever could have imagined.  Yes, there were plot holes aplenty.  And yes, the rules about surviving an angelic plague were pretty much made up on the fly.  But it had sweet bulletproof wings, a crazed Dennis Quaid chewing up the scenery and the freakiest ice cream man I’ve seen outside of the Santa Monica pier.  It was about demonic angels…or something…looking for a baby.  I think.  Whatever they wanted, they were mad about it.  And here’s what I learned:

1. Even though they have power over everything in creation, God and his army of unstoppable super angels can’t find their way inside a roadside diner.
2. It’s possible, if not advisable, to give one of your major characters an inglorious offscreen death.
3. Paul Bettany can make bad dialogue sound good.  Other actors cannot.