Gargoyles: Wings off Darkness
2004
Synopses: In the mid 1500's, a group of Romanian peasants and a priest presumably kill and bury/seal away a gargoyle. 500 years later, an earth quake sets loose either the same gargoyle or another of its kind. The monster has an impressive cache of eggs in the caverns under the cemetery of a church. There are a bunch of Americans - CIA, historical preservation team, clergy - who help save the day.
Review: This was so boring, with cheesy CGI and undeveloped plot points. I'd like to blame bad acting but that actually wasn't the case. It just sucked. Not even the fly-by decapitation scene was enough to elicit more than a "meh" from me. I thought it was bizarre, lazy and maybe a little imperialistic how there was barely anyone with so much as a native accent present in the movie who wasn't a criminal or about to get eaten. Nearly every speaking role, and especially those of importance, were allotted to American actors. Even the local police chief was devoid of any real ethnicity. This movie was also of the bad bat propaganda ilk, linking gargoyles to "some undiscovered species of bat" - even though the illustrations in the church texts depicted small dragons (who are some kind of lizard, not mammal). Aside form the wings, I don't see sufficient characteristics to link gargoyles to bats. Furthermore, they had this thing flying around in broad daylight...in populated areas. What bat does that? Hell, what gargoyle does that?
I'll bet Michael Paré's wondering where his career went. I wished I had spent this time cleaning my toilet.
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