Ridley Scott, the man behind the sci-fi films “Alien” and “Blade Runner” directs this fantasy adventure that features some wonderful angles and set design but lacks sense in several areas as well as good characters and good acting.

A young Tom Cruise (“Top Gun”, “Mission: Impossible”) stars as our hero Jack. One of the two unicorns are killed and Darkness (Tim Curry “Home Alone 2: Lost In New York”) gets ready to ensure that there is never another dawn. Jack must defeat Darkness, bring the unicorn back to life with its horn and rescue his girlfriend Lili (Mia Sara “Timecop”) in an adventure full of strange creatures, magic and danger.

Tom Cruise is laughably bad as Jack. He goes prancing around and then our hero starts doing ridiculous stunts as he pointlessly flips around. Tim Curry sadly isn’t very good as Darkness. I really do like a lot of his work and I would say this seems like the perfect role for him but not only was disappointed in him anyway but the material he had seemed not very good in my eyes. The rest of the cast disappointed me to. The costumes for the various creatures were relatively good for a fantasy film from the 80s.

There are some truly divine shots in this film but it is sad to say that they feature in a movie full of plot holes, annoying characters, laughable acting and ridiculous action scenes. “Legend” has developed a cult following and that’s not because it is now regarded as a great movie that was forgotten at the time but it is because it is a truly hilarious picture and I’m sure ladies who fancy Tom Cruise will adore seeing him run around in shorts and shining body armour fighting against evil monsters. However, if you do not fit into that category you most likely will not need to bother with “Legend” as there are some much greater fantasy films out there.