SERIOUSLY. This is what the crap Hollywood still puts out?

It's an amazing and heartbreaking story.

A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

There's a more than satisfactory amount of boom-boom in the movie's trim running time.

Given the well documented interest of the Nazi party hierarchy in the occult -Hitler and Himmler especially -it is a minor pity that so few supernaturally themed movies or science fiction movies have taken this as a starting point ."The Keep" , a pretentious rambling Michael Mann movie and the altogether better if more modest Trancers apart it remains a relatively unexplored area for genre cinema.Reign of the Gargoyles does tackle this subject and makes a decent if somewhat undercooked stab at it Nazi scientists are able to resurrect stone demons and set them loose in an attempt to sabotage Allied attacks on the Central European heartland .An American aircrew is dispatched to try to discover what is going on ,and are brought down by an attack of these winged demons .They combine with a small local partisan band to destroy the creatures ,and this involves locating a sacred spear from the grave of a long dead knight who had originally imprisoned the demons some time in the Middle Ages The problem is a lack of quality in the special effects ,which are workmanlike rather than exceptional and a cast of unknowns whose talent is such they are likely to stay that way .The script is underpowered and allows for little or no character development The location photography is good however and makes good use of the bleak ,wintry landscape to give an eerie and edgy look to the pictureA bigger effects budget and sharper scripting would have made this a better movie .As it is ,what we have is an okay picture which just fails to do justice to its premise

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 ;)

This movie has an amateurish script with similar acting from most of the characters, both of which are enhanced by lousy directing. Only a lousy director would allow such crap to make it to the screen. For example, the protagonists (I refuse to use the word "hero") win a fire-fight against a group of Germans, killing them on sight, however, when the German leader shoots the respect US leader and holds a gun at a distance on the dying leader, they don't shoot him immediately, they wait until the German can call them a bunch of "flyboys". Elsewhere, three US soldiers recon a building, one of them doesn't have gun, so he picks up a rock, and the three have a noisy discussion about it.The movie is riddled with horrible attempts to rally the audience. The special affects of the gargoyles are pretty good, but that is attributable to modern CG. Oddly, the young gargoyles are made of "flesh" (how?), but still explode with shot with any kind of ammo.The story is riddled with stupid stories, the AF gunner that wants to be a pilot, the a-hole that becomes a leader and, most "impressively", can identify top-secret document within 1 second of seeing it.Even for a bad movie, this is really bad. 88 minutes of my life I'll never get back.

I'm afraid that like most Sci Fi original series this movie is mediocre at best. It just doesn't have any spark. I wish that I could point out some major flaw, but there really isn't any. Stock characters; evil Nazis's,nasty monsters, valiant ally soldiers and partisans. Whee! But the characters just spin their wheels. They practically have labels stamped on them. The VALIANT FLYING FORTRESS PILOT mouths a few words about how he idolizes Lindberg thereby establishing that he's a good egg and an all American joe. I'd love to see Sci Fi channel try to have subtle, nuanced characters for once. There's so much unbelievably good Sci Fi out there. Heinlein, Brin, Asimov, LeGuin, Niven, I could go on. Still, I hope that they keep trying.