Attack of The Gryphon

I've actually seen this movie and enjoyed it but the interactual system used in this format meant i couldn't watch it. bummer

This is a SciFi Channel movie, so it's made for TV and not the big screen. I knew that from the start but I wasn't expecting such a terrible movie. I don't even know where to start...

The story is about a long lasting war between two enemy kingdoms and when one of them is about to fall a sorcerer awakens a gryphon, the creature that supposedly protects that kingdom. The sorcerer double-crosses the king and uses the creature to achieve imortality and control both kingdoms. The heirs to both thrones join efforts to find a mythical spear, the only weapon capable of killing the creature.

This might sound a good plot but it's sooooo low budget that it's painful to see. The gryphon is CGI (I think) but it's so badly done that even king-kong of the original black and white movie looked more natural. Really, I'm not exaggerating! Then there's the armies... each mighty army is composed of 10 guys, they try to hide this with narrow framing but it doesn't work. To make it worst, sometimes you can see a soldier suddenly springing into panic or rage as he receives the order from the set director. After a while he goes into neutral and starts to look at the director as if to see if he is finally going to say "cut". If there was 200 guys in the picture, this might pass... but when the army is made of 10 people it's not even funny.

The soldiers chain-mail is made of wool shirts, something that it's also obvious. The swords are made of stainless steel and the arrows fired from bows fall 2 meters in front of the soldier that fired it. The acting is appalling and the dialogues some times seam to have been written by a 6 years old.

In Amazon.com some people give this movie 4 or 5 stars (I really don't know why) so there is a change some of you might like it. I honestly can't give this even 2 stars, which is something I rarely feel about a movie. I rated AVP Requiem 1 star some months ago, and that movie is far better than this one. Attack of the Gryphon is so bad that I felt embarrassed watching it. In my opinion, it's not even worth renting it.