Legend was one of the most hotly-anticipated films of the 80’s, teaming Ridley Scott (following up Blade Runner) with Tom Cruise (fresh from Risky Business & All The Right Moves), with makeup effects by Rob Bottin (The Thing, Robocop) and a score by, of course, Tangerine Dream. Nowhere near the fiasco that its critical drubbing suggests, this fantasy in which Cruise plays a forest dweller who must stop the Lord of Darkness (Tim Curry) from marrying the woman he loves and thus preventing an eternal ice age, is a visual (and aural) feast that equals 80s fantasies like Labyrinth, The Dark Crystal and The Neverending Story in terms of spectacle alone.
Friday 27th September
0 min
PG
Retrospective
