What do I love? I love the title.

I love curvy Victoria Pratt in tight tank tops.

I love the fact that the Mongolian location isn't even approximately like Mongolia.

I love the worms - they are a cut above the usual SyFy monsters, and are not only quite well realised, they are also nicely integrated into the background plates for the most part.

That's about it though. The movie owes a big debt to Tremors (and a smaller one to the Alien films in terms of design of the worms),but crucially forgets that Tremors was an entertaining movie, mixing thrills, good dialogue and fun characterisation.

MONGOLIAN DEATH WORM is a typical SyFy Channel TV movie about a group of characters being terrorised by, well, giant death worms. Of course, a corporate company conducting drilling in the area is responsible, although I have to say that this film's Mongolian setting is ill-realised and no amount of Asian-American actors are going to convince as genuine Mongolian characters.

This is essentially TREMORS on a low budget and with CGI worms. Saying that, it's pretty decent for what it is, and certainly a lot better quality than you usually get from The Asylum. The film is action-packed and features plenty of scenes of the worms chomping bloodlessly on various 'red shirt' characters; the special effects aren't amazing, but they're serviceable enough. The cast give wooden performance - not least lead Sean Patrick Flanery, who was once young Indiana Jones back in the day - but when there's enough mindless violence and routine action scenes as here, you won't really notice.

Where as "Tremors" was entertaining and brought something new to the world of movies, then "Mongolian Death Worm" hardly manages to step up to even half of what "Tremors" managed to do - even with its questionable sequels.

The story told in "Mongolian Death Worm" is about huge, subterranean worms that have been brought out from their slumber from far beneath the surface of the Mongolian steppes, brought about by a commercial oil drilling company, of course. As the worms ravage the countryside, it is up to a treasure-hunter, a police officer and two volunteer health workers to put an end to the subterranean terror.

Right, well the storyline is just about as cliché as they come in this particular genre. But as every bit cliché this movie is, then it is equally predictable. But yet there is something about the semi-bad monster movies that is alluring. The storyline is lacking anything challenging to the audience, it is just simply put your mind on autopilot and sit back.

The dialogue is forced and not really delivered with enough conviction to fully buy into it. And you never really for a second thought that anyone was in any real danger from neither worms nor earthquakes.

And it was really, really hard to buy into the attempt of making it seem like this was actually taking place in Mongolia. Especially when everyone was speaking English, and even the local police vehicle had 'police' brandished on its side.

One of the carrying factors of the "Mongolian Death Worm" was the worms, as they were actually nicely made. Sure, this wasn't top of the line CGI animation, but it worked out well enough to suit its purpose.

"Mongolian Death Worm" is the type of monster movie that is hard to take seriously, but still it is fun to watch because it is just that cheesy and campy.