Mimic

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Summary: ANOTHER clichéd genetic mutant movie!
Review: Boy, I'm tired of these kinds of movies. Completely unoriginal. A hokey premiss about an impossible mutation. Actors whose only emotion is annoyance. All the characters's actions are wrong and stupid actions. Lots of impossible, unworkable coincidences. The romantic leads survive, everyone else dies, just like in every other disaster movie ever made. This is probably the most slime-filled movie I've ever seen (Ghostbusters 2 may have had more slime, but it was FUN slime!). But genetic mutant monster movies were all the rage back then, so everyone seemed to love it. I sure didn't.

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Summary: Looks like a great Horror/scifi/thriller flick!
Review: This movie is alien and Joe's apartment combined. It is like alien because a creature attacks and is like Joe's apartment because it deals with roaches. I might get this for valentine's day. It sounds scary and the best reason I want it is because it is by my favorite video company dimension home video! Buy it!

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Summary: Okay, you wanna show off your surround system...
Review: Excellant movie...quite honestly, it gave me the heebie-geebies. Very well done, but here is the point I always make and will continue to make as long as there are DVDs: I believe a DVD should take full advantage of the 5.1 architecture in a surround sound system. This movies pans left-to-right, the rear surround channels and front soundstage work well together, so that you experience the movie AS WELL AS watch it! Turn out the lights and enjoy...

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Summary: THINKING MANS SCI-FI SUSPENSE
Review: If your a discreminating fan of Sci-fi suspense, and tired of your unbelievable, slash and dash, with stupid characters then you'll love this movie. All good suspense movies have one thing in common, the characters have to be very believeable and the story line has to be quasi-believeable. This one's a thought provoking spin on science gone bad with a good enough starting point and smart enough characters to get the audience to buy into it. Once you've checked in, the special effects add to the movie rather than detract from it. Its a fun ride. I'd say it's in the top 10 ever of sci-fi suspense. Which, at least to this reviewer, is a class completely different from horror (just so we're clear). The former is intriguing and thought provoking, the later is ussually a butcher shop of a movie.

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Summary: Great Movie
Review: The thing with this movie that is different from other "Alien" ripoffs is that it kind of has an anticipation atmosphere. Although you can predict who is gonna die and so on the anticipation of how he is gonna die and how the other characters are doing keeps you scared. The part when Mira Sorvino's character says that the bugs mimic us gets a weird kind of phobia inside you. You tend to be extra careful at night because your thinking that anyone that walks into your room might just be a monster. That explosion at the end was awesome. The guy who set it off survived because the blast knocked him into the water. The cop was very funny especially in that seen where the $hit is hanging from the ceiling aand he starts rambling.

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Summary: A shrewd thriller
Review: Mira Sorvino stars in this heart pounding and exciting thriller. Hearing the plot before seeing the movie can make people assume it will not be any good, I mean, come one, cockroaches!? But one should never assume, because Mimic gives the chills, despite the somewhat unsatisfying ending. The scenes throughout the movie will make up for that. With excellent performances by Sorvino and Charles S. Dutton, this movie will keep you drawn with terror! GRADE: B+

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Summary: formulaic but still quite engrossing
Review: Yeah, it was predictable. Yeah, it was formulaic. Yeah, it was a bit slow in parts. But dammit if it wasn't CREEPY as all hell! The brooding atmosphere was enough to keep me scared. Not to mention --- Jeremy Northam is a BABE.

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Summary: Good up until that final scene...
Review: Mimic could have been so much more... Everything seems good untill the last fourth of the movie. The story of how the bugs came to be is semi-plausible, as is the rest of the story. The finale is somewhat bland, with the whole lower subway (Read no further if you don't want the ending spoiled) going up in an explosion and all the bugs are killed. But, even though Mira Sorvino's husband set off the blast, he somehow emerges from the rubble slightly charred. This scene completely ruined the movie for me and made me lose all credibility in the story. Besides, movies like this shouldn't have a happy ending. Oh well... Mimic however is still a worthy watch.

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Summary: Creepy, exiting, anything that means great!!
Review: Wonderful! This movie is truly a masterpiece. The storyline is wonderful, an epidemic sweeps New York City and a scientist creats a new bug by mixing mantis and termite DNA together. The bug eventually lives on after humans attempt to destroy it and starts mimicing humans (hence, Mimic), its worst enemy. So the scientist who created them, a bum from the subway tunnels and two police officers go down into the sewers to destroy these bugs.

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Summary: yet another alien ripoff, but this has something...
Review: different... Del Torro's last film, Cronos, was a fresh take on the vampire mythos - here he tackles an Alienish critter (a whole bunch of them) that are inhabitating the abandonded tunnels under NYC. Sure, you could bag on the enormous amounts of goo and grossout effects, but these are staples in horror cinema today, and he doesn't slam them in your face, and actually shows some visually exciting terror scenes. The basic plot (what - you came to a horror film for a deep plot???) is that Sorvino has entered a hybrid insect into a cockroach population that has been carrying disease and killing off many children in New York. The insect works, and the cockroaches die... that's that... so they think... the rest of the film throws in a lot of hokey sci-fi-ish mumbo jumbo to explain that the insects have somehow evolved into these huge flying monstrosities that have developed the ability to vaguely asume the shape of a human... lots of larva, lots of blood, lots of great effects. Oh, go watch the damn thing. You will probably be quite surprised by it. And don't miss the great opening titles! END