Opening with Psalm 34:11, "Come my children and listen to me and I will teach you the fear of the Lord," Legion paints itself as an apocalyptic horror flick of Biblical proportions. Not that it waits long to set the stage as the voiceover tells us that the girl's mother once told her about the mercy and peace of the Lord but told a different story after her father left them. Of course, there are only so many words that you need to get this thing going, right? Instead, we launch full on into Paul Bettany as the angel Michael.

The battle for humanity somehow comes down to a little powerful diner in the middle of nowheresville in Arizona. Owned by Bob Hanson (Dennis Quaid) and his son, Jeep (Lucas Black of Friday Night Lights), the diner becomes the short-term residency of Kyle (Tyrese Gibson), Howard and Sandra Anderson (Jon Tenney and Kate Walsh), and their cocky daughter Audrey (Willa Holland). All of them have some sort of dysfunctional relationship with the opposite sex (divorce, lust, etc.) but none more than the teenage mother Charlie (Adrianne Palicki), who is carrying around the unborn baby of an absentee father.

There's plenty of cross-oriented bling and symbolism flying around, but none of that will prevent the crashing of the television signal, the cutting out of the telephone line, and, of course, the arrival of the crazy old woman who is freaky beyond belief. The crew of humans have a variety of expectations versus reality that they're dealing with, like the dreams Jeep has been having, and an overall sense that they are completely devoid of purpose. Now, they must join together with Michael to fight against the army of God.

Why are they fighting the army of God? Why is Michael on their side? Well, God has given up on the potential of humankind and is wiping them out. Michael, for whatever reason, has decided that humanity is worth saving, and he's sacrificed his angelic powers to fight alongside of them. The second half of the movie revolves around Michael leading them into battle against Gabriel (Kevin Durand of Lost, Wolverine, and Robin Hood) and shows a different potential for angels than we've seen in the biblical Scripture that's considered normative. Seriously, the only angel we see making a decision (and going against God) is Lucifer, and there wasn't any redemption for him.

Here, there's the theological question raised in Charlie's opening and closing voiceovers of "God's tired of the bullshit," and the matter of redemption available for both angels and mankind. I'm no horror fan, and I certainly don't see any apocalypse going down like this, but on Blu-ray, the action pops, the explosions are greater, and the conceptual questions remain true. Why would humanity be worth saving? Well, it's the creation of God. How far would God go to save us? Well, we don't need a new Messiah, or an army of angels, because God sacrificed his one and only son so that we might be saved.

Still, this one is reasonably entertaining, if not a bit melancholy (that's an understatement). Sure, there are biblical examples of people stepping up and begging for God's mercy, like Abraham begging for Sodom and Gomorrah, or Moses' petitions on behalf of the people of Israel. But all of that's Old Testament, and this one turns in a mashup where the "God" in question is an OT God, while the angels, or at least Michael, somehow figured out love and compassion apart from God.

Like I said, you could find pieces of this to debate all day, or you could kick back and be entertained by bravery in the forms of both angels and men.

The Blu-ray version also contains a bunch of special features, like "Creating the Apocalypse: Behind the Special Affects," "Humanity's Last Line of Defense," and the Blu-ray exclusive, "Bringing Angels to Earth: Picture-in-Picture."