Mongolian Death Worm

I, too, am a sucker for a wonderfully terrible Sci Fi movie. This movie has been somewhat entertaining. There are a bushel of bad actors,terrible special effects, and awful story line. But, my greatest disappointment has not been in the aforementioned attributes. But, in the fact that this movie was not filmed in Mongolia. More like Podunk,Montana or Lampshade, North Dakota. When first choosing to watch this movie, I thought of "Centipede," a wonderfully awful film actually filmed in India...which made it that much better (worse). I jest, but the landscape of the film is in contrast to it's title....a definite disappointment for me.

Really bad acting, bad plot and .. too much to critique.

My FAVORITE is that in the Gobi desert, we have grass, trees and it a significant resemblance to middle America.

Maybe that is why the Mongolians drive GMCs and the police vehicle says "Police".

Didn't anybody involved in making this movie give a darn? It appears not.

Cheesy movies can be good - Tremors for example, didn't take itself too seriously, but managed to engage us.

This one is just bad.

Yes, it was filmed entirely in Texas, (as proudly stated in the credits), even though the film offered a quick panorama of a Mongolian plain at the start of the movie. The lead male star took a night off from his Friday night bowling league to make the movie, yet he is the highlight of this very badly acted mess-terpiece. With a sewage plant as the film's centerpiece, some cardboard shacks for additional props, and very poor CGI effects, the term "low-budget" is something of an understatement. The typical B movie lures, naked girls in the shower, buckets of red paint sloshed about in the death scenes, are all missing from this one. And, as other comments have noted, the supposed native characters look mostly Chinese or Mexican, not Mongolian. The "sheriff" looks like he walked right out of some small Texas town to join the movie. Something was definitely missing from this flick.

OK, lets be up-front about this. There is a legend involving gigantic earth worms in the remotest parts of the Gobi desert. The West has sort of been interested in them since the early 1920s. There has been no confirmation of their actual existence, well not until this movie came along any way.

And then there is this movie. It is poorly scripted, crippled with an utterly predictable plot. The hands down winners for stilted and shabby acting go to George Kee Kee Cheung as the sheriff and Nate Rubin as the terminally irritating Dr Phillip. Nate is still cutting his teeth as an actor. George though should have known better. He is an accomplished character actor.

Sean Patrick Flanery as the lead and Victoria Pratt as the romantic interest make a better job of it, particularly Flanery. Even so they are cardboard cut outs of Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner from Romancing the Stone.

Of all the movies about Genghis Kahn's lost tomb and treasure, giant earth worms, medical aid posts by far the best I've seen. It was fun, in a completely daggy way, then the 90 minutes was up.

Mongolian Death Worm, I believe was fair movie, however, there was several minor errors, in the movie itself. First of the minor errors ( i.e plot over-sites ) was that though-out the entire movie there was no actual Mongolian, of Mongolian Cyrillic script ( i.e. Cyrillic writing ). I also noticed, that there was some Chinese script, on the crates, which, somewhat made since. The police vehicle for example( literally had the word POLICE written on the vehicles doors ( in other words the word Police should have looked like this here: Цагдаагийн ( Mongolian ), or Полиция, or Mолиция ( Russian ) . The issue in regards to the 9mm, and the revolver, I also notices, in regards to replace, for which, I tend to agree with the main post review, at present.

There was not that many ger's ( i.e. yurt's, depending on which way one views the concept of the Mongolian portal homes ), mostly standard army tents. A major note, and that is in regards to the constable ( i.e. the police officer. His shoulder boards had the American army rank of captain instead of Mongolian, or Russian rank. That in my opinion, is a complete plot over-site, there. Other then that the movie was quite entertaining, however, it would have been a little bit more believable if some of the actual Mongolian character names ( i.e. actor names ), would have had some actual Mongolian names, too, as well, along with some actual Mongolian speech, with a translator for the principal cast. I believe the executive producers, directors, and the script writers, should have done more research, into the making of this film, personally. Other then those few minor over-sites, the movie is strictly speaking, good for entertainment only.