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Better Late Then Never

I wanted to like it more than I actually did... But much of the humor totally escaped me and I walked out only mildly impressed.

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

The Legacy was a pick and mix movie so I went in with zero expectations but was happy to see Sam Elliot.It tells the story of a couple of Americans who travel to England for work. While travelling through a small village they are involved in a traffic accident and are welcomed into the mansion of a nearby gentleman. But not everything is as it seems (Is it ever?).The plot is baffling, don't get me wrong I fully understand it I just deem it an absolute mess.The cast are on point, the whole movie looks great and I found myself wanting to like the film and hoping it would turn itself around. Alas it did not and when the credits rolled I was more than a little dissapointed.The Legacy is not without merits, but it should have been better as it had all the tools at its disposal for greatness.The Good:Cast are fantastic especially Sam ElliotCats <3Looks greatThe Bad:Deeply baffling plotDoesn't exactly flowThings I Learnt From This Movie:It takes seconds to become an expert crossbow wielderLogical plots are overrated

Attractive young American architect Margaret Walsh (Katharine Ross) is given an advance cheque for $50,000 for a job in London. Together with her boyfriend Pete (Sam Elliot, looking a whole lot like a '70s porn-star), she travels to England several days early to enjoy the countryside, where the couple's motorbike is involved in a near collision with the limousine of millionaire Jason Mountolive (John Standing). The couple are invited to stay at Jason's luxurious mansion while their vehicle is being repaired; there, they are joined by five other guests, who, one-by-one, meet gruesome supernatural fates.Occult horror was all the rage in the '70s and director Richard Marquand's The Legacy can clearly be seen to be jumping on the bandwagon, taking obvious inspiration from films such as The Omen and Suspiria, with a collection of creatively mounted death scenes being its major selling point ('cos logic sure isn't!). The inventive demises include a swimmer trapped under the surface of a pool, The Who's Roger Daltrey having a messy and fatal tracheotomy after choking on a bone, Charles Gray being incinerated and fed to some dogs, and a woman impaled by flying shards of mirror glass.After these elaborate death scenes, lots of comparatively mundane old, dark house nonsense, and some not particularly exciting action, it is eventually revealed that Margaret is to inherit the fatally ill Mountolive's legacy, an unlimited Satanic power that she is finally willing to accept. Her boyfriend Pete appears to have quickly come to terms with the situation as well, the film ending with the happy couple discussing what to do with their newfound demonic potential, fabulous wealth and team of loyal acolytes.

This can't seem to decide if it wants to be a kitch 70s Hammer Horror-em-up, or a glossy romantic US TV movie. Slick moustache man heart throb Sam Elliot clearly thinks he's in the latter, while Roger Daltrey bounds onto the screen like he's auditioning for a part in 'Eastenders: The Pantomime'. To say The Legacy is uneven is putting it mildly, no two characters appear to realise they're in the same film. Shove them all in a grand old mansion in the English countryside, add a touch of supernatural hokum, some surprisingly inventive death scenes, a whole lot of messing around doing nothing, the most pointless random car drive scene in movie history, a cat which has more screen time than half the cast yet has no reason to be involved in the film, and enjoy - but not that much because it drags after an hour or so.

Katherine Ross and Sam Elliot star as the couple who are two successful architects who leave the USA to accept a job in England, Whilst arriving there taking in the beautiful country side, they have an accident as their motorbike crashes they accept a lift from the mysterious Jason Mountolive John Standing who invites the duo back to his estate for 'Tea' but the pair unwittingly become embroiled in mysterious goings on at a stately house situated in the typical horror films fashion of ' the middle of nowhere' 'the Legacy' refers to six heirs who are all waiting in line to inherit a vast fortune but all is not what it seems as the respective heirs start to die in mysterious circumstances.The Who's Roger Daltery has a small part which arguably could of been played by Mick Jagger!, Genre favorite Charles 'Rocky Horror' Gray also stars in this largely unseen British production which has surprisingly has not been updated! there are some terrific or is that horrific? gore sequences Horror fans will enjoy! witness the now infamous pool scene!