We are "Legion," for our errors are many

Legion is one of those rare films that is actually worse than it looked like it would be. I went in expecting it to be bad, and I was still disappointed.
The premise of the film is that God loses faith in humanity, and sends his angels to earth to bring about the apocalypse.
“The last time God lost faith in humanity, he sent a flood,” we are told. This time, he sends His angels.
But then Michael, God’s archangel, (Paul Bettany) decides that just because God has lost faith, it doesn’t mean he should – so he rebels against God’s orders.
Ok, where do I start?
Should I start with the fact that at NO point in any religious history has there been any documentation of people being “possessed” by angels?
The fact that these now-possessed people can’t be killed by broken bones, but they can, for whatever reason, be killed with bullets?
The fact that it suggests that angels can be killed at all? Call me crazy, but I thought the whole point and premise of angelic/demonic/supernatural beings is that they cannot die because they are. not. human.
But let’s not get stuck. There was also my confusion as to why all of humanity’s fate rested in this particular unborn child.
If this mother’s unwed state is meant to be an illusion to the immaculate conception, it is so far off-base that it’s not even worth the argument. Let’s just say this: I’m fairly certain that Jesus’ mother would not have smoked while pregnant, but I suppose I could be wrong.
But wait, there’s more.
There’s also the fact that the movie gets stuck somewhere between “Resident Evil” and “the Exorcism of Emily Rose” with its angel-zombies.
It’s not that it’s gory, because I’m sure the apocalypse won’t be PG. It’s the fact that these angels behave demonically, except for being confined to their human bodies – again, aren’t these supposed to be supernatural beings?
Never mind that Michael, supposedly so in love with humanity, actually only cares about saving one person and only helps the others because they were in the right place at the right time.
Michael and Gabriel are the only angels who are not limited to human form, therefore are the only ones that had a chance of seeming even a little supernatural.
Gabriel comes whirling in on iron-plated wings and twirls around. He might have intimidated me more had he not so reminded me of the Sky Dancer fairy dolls I had as a little girl. But he ends up being antiheroic from the start.
And I suppose since we were dealing with the apocalypse, the fact that a woman runs up a rocky cliff after just having given birth and then being in a fatal car crash shouldn’t seem that far-fetched.
I could expound on any one of those things.
But my main issue with the movie was its misinformed opinion on who God is.
The movie completely misses the point of any religion, turning God into some cosmic vengeance-seeking cowboy.
Michael claims he hasn’t lost faith in humanity, therefore he is going to try “giving God what He needed, not what he asked for.” He is made to seem heroic for this, and Gabriel foolish for not following his lead.
Read the Bible. Rebellion is not something that God has ever rewarded. Angels, humans, etc.
The only angels to defy God made that choice long before you or I came into being, and Michael was not among their ranks. His name was Lucifer, though he also goes by Satan.
And as for the human side of things: I submit the story of Abraham, when he was asked to sacrifice his own son. God spared him that fate, but not because Abraham rebelled – because he obeyed.
God sent his son to die to save humanity. It’s our choice whether or not we accept that. Isn’t that enough? How, after all that, has God been somehow turned into the bad guy?
The filmmakers read enough of the Bible to know that there was a flood, and that Michael and Gabriel are the only two angels ever mentioned in it by name, and then made up the rest.
The film takes everything that God has tried to tell us about Himself and turns it into something might be more user-friendly, but is much worse: the idea that we could know better than He does.

‘Legion’
Directors: Scott Stewart
Writers: Scott Stewart and Peter Schink
Characters:
Michael – Paul Bettany
Jeep – Lucas Black
Charlie – Adrianne Palicki
Kyle Williams – Tyrese Gibson
Percy Walker – Charles S. Dutton
Bob Hanson – Dennis Quaid
Gabriel – Kevin Durand
Rating: R “for strong bloody violence, and language”