Mimic (1997)
Genre: Horror / Scifi
Duration: 105 minuten / 112 minuten (director's cut)
Country:
United States
Directed by: Guillermo del Toro
Stars: Mira Sorvino, Giancarlo Giannini and Jeremy Northam
IMDb score:
6,0 (56.906)
Releasedate: 22 August 1997
Mimic plot
"For thousands of years, man has been evolution's greatest creation... until now."
New York, 1995. The city's residents are threatened by a deadly and highly contagious virus. A scientist, Susan Tyler, her husband and a health department employee search for an antidote. They manage to create a life form through DNA manipulation that can produce the antibodies. But now, 2 years later, their creation has continued to evolve and pose a new, much greater threat to humanity.
Actors and actresses
Dr. Susan Tyler
Dr. Peter Mann
Chuy
Josh
Remy
Manny
Leonard
Dr. Gates
Ricky
Subway Repairman
Reviews & comments
emmes
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- 118 messages
- 529 votes
Much better than I expected. Saw the director's cut on blu ray. Obviously a "homage" to Alien and Aliens, but that didn't bother me.
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wendyvortex
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- 5079 messages
- 7166 votes
Something about an epidemic that doesn't have a vaccine… it's all over 2020. Cockroaches seem to be the major carriers here and they're hard to eradicate, so we're piecing together our own super-insect to get rid of those bastards. Cockroaches gone, epidemic gone and then the fun begins because all that mutating turns out to have some nasty side effects.
Kind of horror action, where the amount of action could have been a little more. We spend most of the movie wandering in sewers and subway systems. Yes insects are of course dirty, scary, slippery creatures with little empathy, but here they are a bit too big to be really scary. At the most, there is still something to abhor because of all the slime that is in and around those animals.
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rep_robert
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- 27410 messages
- 3932 votes
The concept of Mimic remains very nice and the nighttime (underground) New York always gives such a nice dirty feeling. Guillermo del Toro knows how to put down a great film in terms of atmosphere. In terms of plot, it stops after an hour and boredom strikes. In addition, there is also a bit too much mediocre late 90s CGI in the film. This does not stand the test of time very well.
There is a lot of potential in Mimic and I feel some sentiment about this, but it just falls short in the above areas.
2.5*
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