This movie has neither visible dogs nor diamonds.  It does have Dolph Lundgren (aka “The Swedish Meatball”) in the lead role as a troubled macho man living and working in Mongolia. His life is a mixture of police line-ups, mob payoffs, and illegal fighting/betting.

He gets hired to provide security/protection to a fuzzy group of questionable characters interested in stealing a Buddhist Thangka (tapestry). Beyond some entertaining tradional Mongol singing/dancing, there is a series of gunfights and hand to hand fighting.  The movie seems to have run out of money as the movie was made.  Crudy acting, wide gaps in storyline, bare bone props…o.k. the mobile vehicular gunfights has some “excitement” quotient.  But this movie is a dog, a mongrel at that.

Dolph was planning on making a frnachise of the “Rambo-like” character.  After seeing the movie crash and burn, Dolph decided to run and hide.  Hideous, despite the coolness of the locale, this movie is ugly bad and watchable as a cheap thrill or for the 2 minutes of tradional Mongol dancing.

(This trainwreck was $3 from Big Lots)