go on guess ? I'll give you a three letter clue - CGI. No problem for a Hollywood studio with a lot of cheque books, but a very big problem for SyFy who can only realise these sequences via. You want flying Gargoyles, squadrons of planes and explosions. This SyFy production is let down by two major things First of all is the budget. Indeed a cross genre mixing war and monsters starring Jeremy Renner, James McAvoy and Olga Kurylenko probably wouldn't break box office records but it'd certainly make a great night out at the multiplex. There's certainly contains the bare bones of a good film and one wonders if a film containing some downed pilots and SAS soldiers behind enemy lines during WW2 might have been better pitched to one of the major Hollywood studios. After all I'm amongst friends at the IMDb and I can always share my opinions amongst my friends here The general consensus on this page is that REIGN OF THE GARGOYLES is better than most of the films produced by the SyFy Channel which is admittedly faint praise but some people have qualified this by stating it's almost a good film in its own right and contains a couple of good scenes.
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You can understand why someone might do their best to avoid watching it but as so often happens there's absolutely nothing else on so it was either REIGN OF THE GARGOYLES or having to watch a movie I'd seen several times before and had commentated on it on this site. This is one of these movies that gets frequently broadcast on the SyFy Channel. But it was nice, maybe the best part of the entire movie, to remember their prime days. It was a long time ago Joe Penny and John Ashton where in the big titles. Some few known faces surprisingly appeared. Sometimes they face the completely wrong way, when a two meter monster stands behind them screaming. What is worse is that now and again the actors interaction with these CGI monsters are completely out of sync. The monsters are very plastic, moving stiffly and just looking awkward. Unfortunately they don't have any good CGI to support the story, or distract the audience with some spectacular scenes. Which naturally leads to that the American Bomber flyers happen to find themselves in the middle of it. The idea behind the story is ridiculous, evil Nazis summoning flying demons that are even more evil.
Because otherwise, this was seriously bad. Comments: The only thing that saves this movie is the realization that it must have been a low budget production designed to fill time on a the Sci-Fi Channel. Now it is up to some American flyers and British airborne rangers, trapped behind enemy lines to defeat him once again. They managed to defeat him, but now a secret Nazi commando has awoken him again. Recap: A thousand years ago, some pagans summoned Vorthorn, lord of the gargoyles, and unleashed his terror on the world.
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