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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.

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.

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.

I saw Mongolian Death Worm as I had nothing better to do and had some time on my hands. I don't consider it an abomination, but there was a lot wrong with it. Sean Patrick Flanery tried his hardest with his role, and I liked the character of the Sheriff, but that was pretty much it. The special effects are very poor most of the time, the worms are cheaply designed and are not thrilling or terrifying let alone very well used, the direction was lazy and the editing didn't seem very focused to me. The dialogue was so cheesy and aimless it was enough to make me cringe in embarrassment, the story more times than not was dull and predictable with far too many suspend disbelief moments to be remotely believable, and the characters are not interesting and little more than clichés. Other than Flanery, the acting whether phoned in or over-played is terrible. Overall, a bad film but I've seen worse. 3/10 Bethany Cox

I will not waste much of the time of the reader with explaining how bad the movie is - if ever one has seen a SyFy "original" movie, knows what I am talking about. The only reason I am bothering to comment at all is because all the bad acting, script etc. all that pale in comparison with the "Mongolian scenery and terrain" we are presented. For Christ Sake - someone from the crew could have at least google some photos from Mongolia to see what it looks and feels about. How the Mongolians look like (not like Chinese, or Japanese etc.) in what they live and a whole bunch of similar things. I have been in Mongolia and I did not expected to see any close resemblance but at least they could have avoided the trees and the thick grassy spaces... and all the time they talk about the "Mongolian desert".... In short - run the hell away from this crap.