How can you go wrong with a movie that has a title like
this? I mean who DOESN'T want to see a movie with a death worm? Better yet that
the title creature comes from Mongolia! My honest guess is that most people
(especially younger ones) have no idea where Mongolia is let alone why it would
be plagued by death worms. That's a good thing too because most of this movie
looks like it was shot in a woods near the film makers home rather than Asia.
An American oil company (it's always nice to have a
convenient bad guy in films) is using a new technique to drill in a region of
Mongolia. Unfortunately when they do so they awaken a den of death worms, huge
slime covered creatures with retractable shooting tongues that swat out to
catch their prey. So far so good. Now let's toss some more plots into this.
A rogue archeologist named Daniel is on the run from some
smugglers he's apparently crossed paths with. They apparently were helping fund
his search for the tomb of Genghis Khan.
Only his friend, a local policeman, saves him. But you know what they
say about payback. When a truck transporting two physicians involved in Doctors
Without Borders to a small village breaks down and the policeman has another
crime to handle, Daniel is recruited to take them to the village.
Complications arise in various ways. Daniel and his doctors
are captured by the man trying to find him. They are only saved when the death
worms intervene and the bad guys are killed. And if we didn't have enough plots
to follow, it turns out that the man overseeing the oil drilling plant was also
waiting for the bad guys to transport an illegal shipment he has waiting at the
plant. Of course this is where everyone eventually arrives including the death worms.
The story has way too much going on here. The acting is
standard but not outstanding. Then again you can only do so much with what
you're given. Worst of all is the effects. If this movie wasn't made
specifically for SyFy then I would be surprised. It features that same poor CGI
creature of the week effects seen in so many of their made for cable movies.
While this isn't the worst movie ever made, it is pretty
bad. If you find that it's the last movie on the rental shelf then I would
suggest you pull out a deck of cards and play solitaire.
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