http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0494206/
Director:Andrew Prowse
Writers:Kenneth M. Badish
Tim Cox
Release Date:27 January 2007 (USA)
Genre:Action / Adventure / Fantasy
ATTACK OF THE GRYPHON (which aired earlier this year on SCI FI Channel and is now making its DVD premiere) has two things going for it. First, hot Amber Benson from BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER. Second, as far as fantasy film it does a good job with the characters, their armor, clothing and everything – well except for the after-market-enhanced evil witches (and that’s something you don’t type every day). The story is relatively simple – an evil sorcerer conjures the Gryphon in order to rule the land of two warring princely brothers. Of course, it backfires and the two camps join forces to bring the evil sorcerer down.
Plot Outline:In a mystical land torn apart by civil war, a warrior princess must team up with a rival warrior prince to hunt down an evil sorcerer who has summoned a giant flying demon which is terrorizing their land.
Every reviewer probably has parts of the movie that weren't enjoyable to him. This part for me was the monster itself. The computer graphics didn't seem to be as sophisticated as they were in some other movies I've seen. When it flew over the armies on the ground, the troops ducked down as it went over but didn't seem to be affected. Yet in the very next shot, a significant percentage of them were lying dead. And the thing should have been killable. Early on, it was shown that it was affected by an arrow shot into it. Yet later, when it flew at low level over the troops, they didn't fill it full of arrows and kill it. I suppose if it had died right away there would have been no movie, but it seems to me that if you have archers in your army and an enemy is attacking, that enemy should be sprouting some arrows right away. Because of that, I couldn't score it a full 10 and only gave it a rating of 9 out of 10.
608x336 (1.81:1) [=38:21]
Runtime: 01:29:41
Bitrate:957 kb/s
FPS: 23.976 Qf 0.195 bits/pixel
700 MB (or 716,944 KB or 734,150,656 bytes)
Audio: English 128 kb/s (64/ch, stereo) CBR Fs 48000 Hz
