Legend

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Legend

PG

1986

1h 29m

Fantasy

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Darkness (Tim Curry) seeks to create eternal night by destroying the last of the unicorns. Jack (Tom Cruise) and his friends do everything possible to save the world and Princess Lili (Mia Sara) from the hands of Darkness. Enter a world of unicorns, magic swamps, dwarfs and rainbows.

Critics Consensus

Not even Ridley Scott's gorgeously realized set pieces can save Legend from its own tawdry tale -- though it may be serviceable for those simply looking for fantasy eye candy.

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Louis B. Parks

Houston Chronicle

4d

Legend dares to be different. Audacious, silly and exciting, it goes strange places in a way few modern films risk. Most of the trip is fun.

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Eric Shorter

Daily Telegraph (UK)

4d

[Legend] manages to merge every sort of nursery myth with every sort of cinematic trick to catch the eye. The make-up and the special effects are dazzling.

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Michael Healy

Denver Post

4d

Perhaps it has not been conveyed how utterly boring this movie is, how devoid of cleverness, of characterization, plot and theme.

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Bob Campbell

Arizona Daily Star

4d

Legend is a triumph of rococo style with moments of incomparable film magic, but it dies of oxygen-starvation. It winds up as the most expensive department store window display in history.

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Noel Taylor

Ottawa Citizen

4d

Legend tries, with all the guile that Ridley Scott commands, to be an occasion for wonderment. What it turns out to be is a monument to artifice, with all the immobility that that implies.

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George Williams

Sacramento Bee

4d

4/4

Legend is the kind of movie Walt Disney would have applauded and would have made himself had he Scott's talent for working with live actors rather than animated creatures. Scott's movie is like the best of Disney come to life.

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Julie F

@RT09349782 Jan 17

I don't understand people that don't like this film. It's a beautiful, true fairytale fantasy.

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Gregory S

@Gregory566 Jan 8

A pretty underrated fantasy movie.

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Monty G

@Montyginger Jan 1

This movie is good, and you should watch the directors cut to get the real magic. But I’m gonna be honest I don’t understand why everyone was like "Tim Curry is amazing in this film" honey no ! Tim Curry did not even one bit amazed me. It was just Tom and the director him self. Because I’m gonna be honest performance wise it’s an average film but story wise and as a whole film it’s so good

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GoreFTW

@GoreFTW Dec 30

This is an absolute banger of a film. The crit reviews are so tainted and jaded, almost like they are crits… like didn’t watch the movie with an open mind and heart, but rather wrote their reviews before watching the movie. Some movies aren’t about the stars, they are about the spirit they invoke. This movie holds up to time and will forever.

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Bronn B

@RT31774873 Dec 27

Beautiful visuals let down by a weak script full of plot holes. It reminded me of Blade Runner, slow and moving from set to set, but without the dialog to tie it together. The actors can only deliver the lines that are written, and only according to the director’s vision, so I think the weakness of the film comes down to the script and director. But Ridley Scott has delivered great and awful movies, and so I think he might be more dependent on the script for guidance. For 80s fantasy movies Willow is cheesier but more entertaining, and Dragonslayer is a much better movie. I think Stardust is probably the best fantasy movie.

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Iyanna B

@RT61851764 Nov 25

It was beautiful, Ethereal and the story was magnificent in it's own. It'll be placed on the same shelf as Never Ending story, Dark Crystal and other magical movies as such. People who don't enjoy it have a lack of imagination but those who do love it well If you know, you know. It's a must see movie 🍿🎥

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Synopsis

Darkness (Tim Curry) seeks to create eternal night by destroying the last of the unicorns. Jack (Tom Cruise) and his friends do everything possible to save the world and Princess Lili (Mia Sara) from the hands of Darkness. Enter a world of unicorns, magic swamps, dwarfs and rainbows.

Director: Ridley Scott
Producer: Arnon Milchan
Screenwriter: William Hjortsberg
Distributor: Universal Pictures
Production Co: Universal Pictures, Embassy International Pictures
Rating: PG
Genre: Fantasy
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Apr 18, 1986, Original
Release Date (Streaming): Dec 3, 2015
Box Office (Gross USA): $12.3M
Runtime: 1h 29m
Sound Mix: Magnetic Stereo 6 Track, Dolby Stereo, Surround
Aspect Ratio: Scope (2.35:1)

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