Review of Mimic (1997) by Stuart K — 10 Mar 2013
After the international success of his directorial debut Cronos (1993), Guillermo Del Toro was offered to do a short film for Miramax, along with Gary Fleder's Imposter (2001) and Danny Boyle's unseen Alien Love Triangle (1997).
Del Toro's film, based on a short story by Donald A. Wollheim. Miramax made Del Toro recut the film, but he got the last laugh by doing a director's cut, which shows what he had in mind all along, it's shows where he was going.
In New York, people in downtown Manhattan are succumbing to a deadly disease being carried by cockroaches, Entomologist Susan Tyler (Mira Sorvino) and her husband Peter Mann (Jeremy Northam) use genetics to determine where the disease came from.
They discover a new breed of insect which they call The Judas Breed, which are human sized insects which are able to copy the characteristics of humans, and they discover a huge population of the insects in New York's subway system, and they soon turn on the scientists and police officer Leonard (Charles S.
Dutton), and then their train out of there breaks down. It's a good B-Movie horror, with a lot of elements with what we would come to expect from Del Toro over the coming years, it has a good cast and the monsters are well created, and it's good that Del Toro was able to get his way with the film over Miramax.
This review of Mimic (1997) was written by Stuart K on 10 Mar 2013.
Mimic has generally received mixed reviews.
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