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Darth Sidious 2012-05-24 21:38:37

Rubbish!!!

I've seen this film before, but it was much better, it's called Alien. Quitefrankly, this film is rubbish because it offers nothing knew, its characterare tedious, the whole set-up is horrendous and you wonder why anyonebothered with this dung script!Mimic is entirely derivative of Alien and other similar pictures. The scriptlacks a good set-up. The acting is okay, but the actors have nothing to work with. The directingis boring.The photography is boring.The music is boring.The film is rubbish, there's nothing knew, avoid at allcosts!

Delfinesque 2012-05-24 08:09:46

Both unoriginal and implausible

If this tale of menacing genetically engineered bugs seems familiar, it'sbecause the plot was plagiarised from "Aliens", with the distinction thatthe action here is purely Earthbound, in fact mostly underground.Quite apart from the fact that it's never explained why a mantis/termitehybrid grows to human size in three years, the stupidity reaches its' peakwhen...SPOILERS FOLLOW!...the hero blows up the entire bug nest by causing a gas explosion, whilehe walks away completely unscathed! Possibly the dumbest thing ever in thehistory of cinema.Mira Sorvino is OK as the Ripley clone.

Daywalker 2012-05-20 17:40:12

Rent it, watch it - you won´t regret it!

One of the better horror films made in the 1990s! The atmosphere is prettymysterious, creepy and apocalyptic. This film contains a story that I wouldreally call intelligent and demanding, considering that this movie belongsto the horror genre! It has a marvelous cast and stars well-doing actorslike Mira Sorvino, Jeremy Northam, Josh Brolin, F. Murray Abraham, CharlesS. Dutton or Giovanni Giannini ("Hannibal"). The greatest thing about"Mimic" however is his stylish photography and I´m really curious to seedirector Guillermo del Toro´s debut "Cronos", which must be even better thanthis! 7/10

2012-05-20 10:32:27

The Scariest Movie about Giant Bugs Ever.

This is an excellent monster movie, pure and simple. It is not really campy or funny, but it manages to do something that few monster movies do nowadays; it scares you. Yup. The atmosphere for this movie is great and the movie is very unpredictable. It seems if Del Toro took quite a bit of care to avoid cliches, and he definitely succeeds. If you want a monster movie that is actually scary, pick up Mimic. If seeing a giant roach killing a child does not shake you up a little bit, watch this on a rainy night.I give "Mimic" a 4.5 out of 5(rounds up).

2012-05-15 23:09:55

nail biting horror

This is the first big-bug movie that I have actually liked. This movie starts out with a fairly harmless beetle created to do good and help destroy cockroaches that carry a disease that's killing children. Fortunately something goes wrong and these bugs evolve into some infinitely more deadly. What makes this movies work is you don't get a good look at them until further along in the movie when the heroes begin to figure out what these things are. Thankfully the special effects are very well done and only add to the horror.

2012-05-15 04:26:52

Yawn*

Since I'm not all about negativity, lets start out with the only positive thing about Mimic... The acting is actually pretty good, especially Mira Sorvino who does a great job at 'almost' making me care about this horribly boring story. It actually took me 3 tries to finally make it through the whole movie! In fact the most exciting thing about Mimic was taking it back to blockbuster, where I'm sure it's been sitting on it's dust filled shelf ever since.

gedhrel 2012-05-15 16:08:58

A poor, formulaic rehash.

What sets this apart from the myriad of other Alien/Predator etc.rip-offs?Well, it's a lot worse that most.However, people will look back at this and point out how indicative of the90s it was: instead of the horror of nuclear power that was the recurrentbugbear during the 80s, genetic modification becomes the scientific evilforthis decade. So maybe a film historian will like it 30 years fromnow.This isn't even so bad as to fall into the "so bad it's a must-see"category. Mediocre, predictable, missable.

M Brucia 2012-05-15 03:05:53

Guess the movie

Strong female character reasons that there must be an egg layer among allthe soldier creatures, culminating in a terrifying scene with hundreds ofeggs and creatures laying in wait, the protagonist telling the big breedercreature to "stay away" from the silent, lonely, orphaned child that she hascome to protect as her own, and drawing the creature towards her to protectthe kid, only to destroy the creature by blasting it through theairlock.Airlock? I meant train, sorry.Anyway, yeah, Aliens was a great movie. I'm just impressed that thescriptwriter for this movie got paid for plagiarizing such famousmaterial.

MARTINL 2012-05-13 17:31:04

A creepy, atmospheric chiller!!

A truly atmospheric film, scary and original 2/3 of the way, sadly marredbya Hollywood ending, but choke-full of grotesque set pieces that give itthefeeling of a classic horror film and not a 90's movie. The classiest bugflick you can imagine.

costea310d-1 2012-05-13 15:15:19

a kind of future not probable, but surely possible

Can insects and humans live side by side? This picture says "No, ofcourse not!" I think there was a lot of self-restrained on the part ofthe plot designers, because, generally speaking, insects, small or big,just have no compassion for what's moving around. They just try to grabit and eat it. I have read a book on how awful life could get whenalien insects come through a "ring" to the earth, in the future. Ithink today's small insects make life very miserable for us. I alsothink that little bugs, beside infecting our food, and scaring us (mefor sure), are also infecting us. I think some mosquitoes really carrywith them HIV , although scientists are denying it. So this picturenicely presents us with a very likely future. It does it with extremelygood taste and style.

sketchy 2012-05-10 12:45:54

A creepy film.

I liked this movie. It was a scary entry in the "giantBugs"flick. It was well directed, had good acting,and did not start togo down-hilllike most movies. Watchable.

Gary Feldman 2012-05-10 00:39:51

Close to perfection

Guillermo del Toro is one of the horror/fantasy/sci-fi genre's greatestdirectors, no contest, but this film reeks of studio meddling to cutdown on the intelligence and pack on the screams.This nearly ruined the film.But beyond that, you have one of the most inventive thrillers evercreated, like some sort of Cronenberg/Hitchcock lovechild, it mixesunique filming techniques, human drama, and freaky-ass insect thingiesthat kill people.Plotwise, the insect plague idea is very inventive, and the twist ofthe infected roaches cross-breeding with termites and mutating intoNaked Lunch-level atrocities also delighted and frightened me.On the other than, probably due to the aforementioned studio meddling,there is one incredibly stupid plot hole that will make viewers pullinto a total "WTF?!" moment, I won't spoil it for those who haven'tseen it, by browsing this page chances are you already know what it is.The acting ranges from serviceable to excellent, Mira Sorvino turningout a great performance, her best since Mighty Aphrodite(And mostlikely her best of the early-to mid '90's judging by some of the tripeshe's been in) and Charles S. Dutton provides the comic relief asvulgar subway security guard Leonard.The makeup and gore effects are exceptionally good, thanks to someassistance from Rick Lazzarini's Character Shop(del Toro himself had aspecials Effects company, they did not do any work on the film and arenow defunct)Overall, worth looking into for a good scare, or Hell, even a good filmin general, I henceforth give Guillermo del Toro's Mimic.......... 9blargs out of 10 (Reviewer's note: Although del Toro directed the filmto completion, he has since disowned the film after viewing thetheatrical cut)

2012-05-08 09:53:18

I liked it because it did NOT follow convention

This movie wasn't perfect but what I liked most is that in most horror movies people do exactly the wrong thing. The typical example is a Friday the 13th movie where even though people are dead nobody calls the police, people go in the basement or outdoors alone etc..In Mimic, none of that happens. Each action that takes them further into danger is a logical progression. They did basically what you'd expect almost anybody to do in a given situation.I don't understand the couple of completely negative comments that are up here. Seems like they were watching a different movie like "Relic" which came out about the same time but was horrid.

2012-05-07 13:30:22

Well worth the wait

This review is from: Mimic (The Director's Cut) [Blu-ray + Digital Copy] (Blu-ray) This is a great old fashioned monster movie. The directors cut is superior to the original theatrical version in many ways. If you enjoyed movies such as Relic or Species, give this movie a chance to show you how they could have looked if it was made by someone who cared or understood about the genre.

Michael W. Phillips, Jr. 2012-05-07 03:51:01

Followed its terrific first half with a descent into horror movie formulaic crap.

Adrian Smith 2012-05-06 11:13:25

SPOILER ALERT Why does the black guy always have to die?

It appears to be written into the movie-makers handbook - You will have alikeable black character who has to die to save the lives of the goodwhiteheroes. Other than that cliche, and plenty of others, this is a goodfilm.Imagine it as Aliens under New York and you're pretty muchthere.

CALIFORNIA REPUBLICan 2012-05-05 18:18:38

Bug off

In Mary Shelley’s original story about a scientist’s creation wreaking havoc in the world of Man (Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus), the scientist was trying to create a human being. But, in Guillermo del Toro’s film, MIMIC, the scientist (Mira Sorvino) was only trying to kill roaches -- by creating a superbug that would kill them and, thus, stop a roach-borne virus. Of course, if there is anything science fiction has taught us, it’s that these things never work out as intended, and always take on a life of their own. So it is with MIMIC, wherein three years after the last genetically-engineered critter was supposed to have died out due to built-in sterility, the creatures are replicating, and mutating themselves into a more effective predator; one that mimics its intended prey to lure it into its dinner stash. The insects have developed the appendages -- and size -- that allow them to take on a quasi-human façade to prey on humans and thrive in New York’s beehive-like subway system.The premise of the film is ridiculously unoriginal. But, the execution is craftily carried out by the gifted Mexican director, del Toro. His style is as distinctive as Tim Burton’s; you know when you are watching a del Toro film, because it looks and feels differently than other films of the same genre. Del Toro’s technique, for instance, of using the audio-visual montage to insert disembodied sound-bites, like footnotes, into a shot, that provide background information to elucidate the significance of the scene, is very effective. Del Toro also spins a riveting yarn by repeatedly hopping between one suspenseful line of action and another, as if the director was channel-surfing between the subplots of the film. I am not grossed out by bugs, and I generally think the metallic, insectoid variety of aliens and other movie-monsters popular in Hollywood effects-labs of late, with their hundreds of teeth and slime-covered pods, are perfectly laughable. But, I was taken in by del Toro’s thriller, and, at least for the moment, unskeptical.Del Toro also employs a wide-variety of respectable story-telling ingredients, like the theme of the precocious child as an instrument of a tale’s moral framework. I suspect that part of the strategy here is to recall our childhood sense of fear to evoke a psychological type of fright that might otherwise be inaccessible. Also, the image of the precocious child summons up the sense that “time is out of joint” (Hamlet) when children act like grown-ups; that children should not be walking in the subway tunnels alone to earn a living. The central child character in MIMIC is a sort of idiot-savant who stands for a micro-allegory for the larger theme of the film because he also is a mimic; he can imitate sounds by clapping spoons together. A use of subtle irony emerges from a scene in a church statuary, where the religious icons that would be a source of supernatural energy in a different film, are emasculated by the scientific nature of the threat immediate here.The film is not without its faults, however. Many of the dispensable characters can be identified as such from the word go. And, in spite of the high-brow ingredients mentioned here, the film eventually reverts to the expensive digital-effects and explosions that typify big-budget movies. Ultimately though, this film is prone to the infirmity of many horror films of the moment; it is only frightful while the videotape is in the player.(Carlos Colorado)

Claudio Carvalho 2012-05-05 07:07:21

A Surprisingly Good Horror B-Movie if You Have no Troubles with Cockroach

New York has an outbreak caused by cockroaches. The entomologist Dr. SusanTyler (the gorgeous Mira Sorvino) decides to release some mutants'cockroaches with modified DNA to exterminate the bugs and programmed to notreproduce themselves. However, this life form evolutes and becomes a biggerthreaten to human race. Dr. Susan, together with her husband, a subway guardand a shoe repairman will fight against these mutations. This is asurprisingly good horror B-movie. It keeps tension along the whole story.However, it is not recommended for viewers with trouble with cockroaches andwith weak stomachs. My vote is seven.

Beth Accomando 2012-05-02 08:14:49

Del Toro does not make Tyler a symbol of science gone out of control or of science for greed, instead he makes her a scientist who in doing good has created a monster and has to live with that guilt.

2012-05-01 11:29:27

Mimics other bug movies

Guillermo del Toro's effectively creepy bug movie is a fast-paced, exciting (and gooey) thriller starring Mira Sorvino. However the film has a mainly "been there, done that" story about a deadly virus called Strickler's disease, that is killing many children, and Sorvino's character finds a cure by genetically- modifying cockroaches. The nasty critters get set free in the world, and several years later people start getting picked off by giant bugs that have evolved to "mimic" their predator: Man.The action, which mostly resides in the trademark underground railway tunnel, is inventive, and there are some genuine shocks and twists along the way. The messing with nature theme has been done before (Jurassic Park), and the film is very similar to The Relic. But there is a strong environmental message that, while good, thankfully isn't heavy-handed and doesn't get in the way of some cool bug-splosions and hapless kids getting munched. Disgusting fun.