Despite all its sound and fury, Legend is a movie I didn't care very much about. All of the special effects in the world, and all of the great makeup, and all of the great Muppet creatures can't save a movie that has no clear idea of its own mission and no joy in its own accomplishment.

Roger Ebert

Chicago Sun-Times

Mr. Cruise goes through all this nonsense gamely, as if it were an initiation into a fraternity he wants very much to join.

Vincent Canby

The New York Times

Fascinating in the way only a wrongheaded film by a great filmmaker can be, Legend lends beauty to such imagery, but the story keeps dragging it back to the mystical land of kitsch.

Keith Phipps

The A.V. Club