AboveDeepBuggy Some things I liked some I did not.

SpuffyWeb Sadly Over-hyped

Aedonerre I gave this film a 9 out of 10, because it was exactly what I expected it to be.

HottWwjdIam There is just so much movie here. For some it may be too much. But in the same secretly sarcastic way most telemarketers say the phrase, the title of this one is particularly apt.

GL84 Downed on a mission over Germany, Air Force troops team up with a group of local villagers to find the source of killing them off a race of gargoyles brought to life by the Nazis and try to get back to base alive.This is far better of an entry than it really should be. One of the better elements to this one is the fact that there's a lot of action within this one which should be fitting considering the storyline about this taking place in the middle of a war. Those moments, from the bombing raid on the village to the extended dogfights between the enemy planes as well as the different creatures going after the bomber are highly entertaining as well as some of the other action scenes in here. The opening release of the creatures in the compound, their ensuing raid on the village in broad daylight as well as their attack on the troops in the abandoned city provide this one with some rather fun highlights along the way with the graveyard shootout in here which really scores as a fun action scene. The mythology for the creatures is also quite fun as it becomes all connected with the myths quite nicely and provides some rather enjoyable times with the intelligence of the story here. While all these do move the film along nicely and keep it from being boring, there's the one main flaw in this one that holds it back being the lack of actual gargoyle action in here. There's relatively few attacks with the creatures and hardly any of them are exciting or even last that long when they do happen, really making them seem like an after-thought in their own movie. There's very few scenes of them in this anyway and those are dominated by rather lousy CGI for them which really make this pretty troubling at times. Along with the confusing matter of why they were initially released in the first place, these are the film's flaws.Rated R: Graphic Language and Violence.

TheLittleSongbird I'll admit it and say that I dislike, even hate, most of the movies from the Sci-Fi Channel, with a couple of exceptions. If you're wondering why I keep watching them, it is mainly because there is something compulsively watchable about them in how awful they are. I also try and watch any movie of any genre and age regardless of the critical and audience consensus. I was expecting very little from Reign of the Gargoyles, and in the end I got very little. It does have a good idea, and the acting from Joe Penny, John Ashton and Wes Ramsey is alright but not great. However, that is it for any redeeming qualities. The editing is very choppy, the lighting dull and the sets too scaled-down. But on a visual front it was the special effects that fared the worst, the movements of the gargoyles are very stiff and in their design they look very crude. Considering that they do feature prominently in the movie, that is a major issue. The dialogue is as unnatural as the effects with a lot of talk but no flow, and apart from Penny, Ashton and Ramsey the rest of the acting stinks with the accents laughably fake. The story is energetically told I suppose, but much of it is unsurprising and veers into the face-palm-inducing ridiculous far too much. True, there is some conflict here but executed in a very clichéd way. The flying sequences have a great concept and not so bad in the action, but I would have enjoyed them more if the editing was better than it was. The characters are little more than walking cardboard cut-outs, in particular we learn absolutely nothing about the gargoyles. Overall, I have seen worse from the Sci-Fi Channel, but that doesn't stop Reign of the Gargoyles from being very bad. 3/10 Bethany Cox

clover-cat Interesting to read comments about this film picking holes in the correct way for a WWII SAS officer to wear their beret when there are hundreds of (below average) CGI Gargoyles running around. A bit like having a go at Star Wars because Chewbacca does not have split ends. The film is straight to DVD/Sci-Fi Schlock and there are thousands of other similar movies out there which take themselves a lot more seriously and are more in need of being deflated. The film tries hard and does quite well considering it must be low budget. A more interesting goof is the comment that the holder of the Spear of Destiny was buried like a commoner and then watching the heroes breaking into his tomb - hardly the resting place of a commoner. Nice comment earlier about NAZI interest in the supernatural and mention of the excellent THE KEEP but add to the list RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK and HELLBOY.

siderite There is hardly anything left to say; the title says it all. Crappy CGI (a bit better than average for SciFi channel) meets silly cardboard characters. And cardboard wins because CGI is virtual! It's like one of those Santa Claus and a smart beautiful blonde jokes.Anyway, with the limited, but larger than average budget they could have chosen one of the thousands of good scripts floating out there. No, they chose a story where German sadists try to kill brave Americans helped by the beautiful French resistance girl. Oh, and there are gargoyles around. Puh-lease!Bottom line: total waste of time. Not bad enough to count. Not good enough... for anything ;)