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Strong and Moving!

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

It is encouraging that the film ends so strongly.Otherwise, it wouldn't have been a particularly memorable film

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

A scene of where the unicorns are running towards the camera position after the poison dart is shot, you can see a person move out if view behind a bush.

A stunningly good looking film, "Legend" is the kind of film that would happen if you took the best director who made the best looking commercials for TV, and gave him a fairy tale script to work with.It has that kind of a "selling a product" kind of care to it, for it you look at commercials at the time, there was a real upscaling of production values and care that went into their production. So much that commercials suddenly became noted for being excellent shot films unto themselves (side note, there was a whole topic and controversy that the commercials weren't selling the products, but being simply good short films that happened to have products in them at this time). suddenly sumptuous highly detailed sets, elaborate costumes, and bucolic locations.And that's kind of visually what Legend is all about. The story is pretty basic stuff, but the execution of it is why you go to see this movie. That, and the performances aren't that bad either. It's full of energy on all levels, but modulated by Ridley Scott's masterful direction. My one major critique is that this film needed a few more extras and other people or locations to show the kingdom that the princess was part of, because otherwise she rules over Jack, one peasant woman and her slumbering husband. There aren't even any guards or other knights to protect her, nor even a mother and father. Just Tom Cruise's character and a handful of forest spirits. That, and Cruise does seem to be in the crouched position for much of the film. Cruise's character, and perhaps the film as a whole in general, needed a little grounding, and perhaps a little grounding in the melee department. Give the fight some length, a sense of skilled peril as opposed to a simple fight with some cool moves. This is to say that the film as a visual piece is fully realized, but needed a few more characters and extras to complete it, with perhaps a couple more plot points to ram home the whole moral of the fairy tale. Otherwise it's a decent looking film. I'm not sure I'd watch it with regular dudes, but perhaps with fantasy fans who like medieval era fairy tales and so forth.Well, that's just my take.Enjoy.

Legend has long lived in my consciousness. It was obviously visually arresting and it couldn't help hold a fascination for me with its incredible set design, cinematography and the greatest makeup effect ever committed to screen in Rob Bottin's Darkness. I've never really enjoyed watching it though, I found it boring with the exception of the aforementioned aesthetics, makeup effects, Tim Curry's performance and Meg Mucklebones. Having read about a Director's Cut I was eager to revisit the film after not having seen it for probably 20 odd years to see if it could be redeemed as I felt it deserved to be.I found the 'Director's Cut' to be little more than 30 mins longer in length and the film as a whole to suffer the same problems I intuited as a kid; creepy and shallow characters, a deeply tedious and unheroic resolution to the crisis set out in the first act and a puzzling rehash of the Director's own work in his depiction of the antagonist's exit.Despite its scope and grandiosity of production, the film just feels small, as illustrated by Jack's 'quest' which consists of putting on some armor, crossing a swamp and fumbling around in the dark with some big trays. Despite Cruise's best efforts in his first scenes, Jack just flatlines as a character for the rest of the film, and the cataclysm proposed by the corruption of the Unicorns never seems to weigh that heavily on the rest of the film. Similarly the henchmen's threat (such as it was) with the underbite-Goblin and his pigfaced accomplice dissipates as Darkness himself is showboated for the last half hour.In spite of the prodigiousness of its personnel and their technical might, Legend is, ironically, an exhibition in the power of good storytelling - in that it is completely devoid of it. This film should be screened to aspiring screenwriters as a cautionary tale of how useless riches are in the hands of artisans without a heart to hold the work together. Despite the Director's Cut this sumptuous looking film has about as valid a claim to a 'soul' as Darkness himself does.

"Legend" plays out like the movie a bunch of guys would get together and make under the influence of serious hallucinogenic drugs, and who knows, maybe that was the case? In many ways it's a rather bad movie. It's not good at all in telling a narrative -- the editing is confusing and disjointed, Ridley Scott's direction is awkward and clunky.But on the other hand, the visual look of "Legend" is stunning, and it's worth watching for that alone. It's clear that Scott had a distinct tone and vision in mind when making the movie, and that comes through strongly despite the weakness of the film making in other regards. I found myself fascinated by the film and could easily overlook its flaws.The film received a much deserved Oscar nomination for Best Makeup but lost the award to "The Fly." Tough category that year.Grade: B+