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For our entertainment, Paul Bettany will be waging his own personal battle between heaven and earth.

The handsome Brit’s image as the assault-rifle-toting archangel Michael in the doomsday fantasy “Legion” has been inescapable of late. In the intelligent, emotional “Creation,” meanwhile, he plays Charles Darwin over a span of crucial years. As Bettany raids a hotel suite’s mini-bar for a vodka tonic, he delights in the irony of simultaneously manifesting as an angel and as the man who, as one “Creation” character says, “killed God.”
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Paul Bettany, perhaps best known for his powerful performance as the assassin Silas in “The Da Vinci Code,” is back in the big screen, this time as the Archangel Michael in Columbia Pictures’ supernatural action-thriller “Legion.”

In the film, as mankind destroys itself in a savage fury, a small group of people (led by Dennis Quaid, Lucas Black and Tyrese Gibson) trapped on the edge of nowhere prepare to make a last stand—with the help of a mysterious and powerful stranger – the Archangel Michael.
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