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Brotherhood of Legio

Taiwan 2007
produced by
Jade Lee, Tom Teng, Yeh Ju Fen, Huang Pao Yun (executive) for Pandasia
directed by Shao Li-shiou
starring Lan Cheng-Lung, Terri Kwan, Juan Ching-Tien, Chen Bo-lin, Lu Yi-Ching, Jay Shih, Margaret Wang
music by Cincin Lee, special effects by DigiMax

review by
Mike Haberfelner

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Legion X recruits its disciples exclusively from those that are physically or mentally handicapped in one way or another, like Ren Fang (Lan Cheng-Lung), who is suffering from a brain tumor and has only got two weeks to live, Jian (Juan Ching-Tien), who has been paralyzed in a hit-and-run accident, Wong Dao, who has been mentally crippled ever since his sister was raped and killed and who wants to find out who did it, and Lua Xiao, a lovely schoolgirl who ... I don't know, she just likes to set things on fire. All of these characters are not only healed of their shortcomings, they even get superpowers - but they also have to do the Legion's bidding, and if they don't do so in a certain time, the bracelet that gives them their powers will kill them.

Ya Zhu (Terri Kwan) is a TV-journalist and Ren Fang's girlfriend who tries to find out how her boyfriend suddenly got healed from brain cancer and how her daddy is linked to the underworld. Enter a cabdriver, who's also with the Legion (she's not yet even aware about) and who offers her answers: Fact is, the Legion has been split in two, and while Ren Fang and the others have been recruited by the evil faction that wants to conquer the world, her father is with the good ones who want peace. Somehow Ya Zhu believes the cabby.

Ya Zhu's dad  wears one of the Legion's most important artefacts around his neck, the book of secrets (or something, saved on a microchip after the original got destroyed), so of course the evil Legion is after him and sends its newest recruits to retrieve the book, promising the one able to kill Ya Zhu's dad a place in the inner circles of the organisation (while the others have to die) - so in the showdown its supernatural martial arts and magic versus magic and supernatural martial arts, and eventually, Ren Fang is left the last man standing, but he's so seriuosly wounded that he has to be saved by the cabdriver in return, who takes the book of secrets from him before nursing him back to health.

At her father's funeral, Ya Zhu tells Ren Fang she will do anything to find out who has killed her dad, not knowing it was actually him ...

In the end, we see Ren Fang accepted into the inner circles of the Legion.

 

Over-convoluted comicbook-superhero-style fantasy spectacle that makes not half as much sense as it's supposed to, tells a rather silly and simplistic story, and despite efforts to the contrary fails to present us with fleshed out characters. The flashy, trendy, music video-style directorial effort doesn't really help too much in bringing the story across either, as it invariably favours style over content.

The movie is not a total failure though mainly thanks to its expert pacing, to its great exposition (a schoolgirl burning down her home and those - including her parents and litte brother - in it) that's a bit of a promise that simply isn't kept, and thanks to its imaginative and completely over-the-top finale that's quite simply a beauty to watch (despite a few less-than-perfect CGI effects). All this does of course not make a good film, but at least an entertaining one.

 

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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