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Mimic

Mimic

1997
Sci-fi, Suspense/Thriller
1h 45m
A team of scientists discover a miracle cure that stops the spread of a deadly disease... only to find three years later that something has gone terribly wrong. Their creation has taken on a horrifying life of its own... able to mimic and destroy its every predator -- even man! And now, it threatens to wipe out an entire city... unless they stop it in time. (Miramax)

Directed by:

Guillermo del Toro

Screenwriter:

Guillermo del Toro, Matthew Robbins, Donald A. Wollheim

Starring:

F. Murray Abraham, Mira Sorvino, Josh Brolin, Norman Reedus, Jeremy Northam, Giancarlo Giannini, Charles S. Dutton, Julian Richings, Alexander Goodwin, Alix Koromzay

Franchise:

Mimic

Genres:

Sci-fi, Suspense/Thriller, Horror

Country:

USA

Languages:

English, Italian
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Mimic

1997
Sci-fi, Suspense/Thriller
1h 45m
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kojilessKojiless
Rated 19 Jun 2012
24
25th
In the sewer, no one can hear you scream...except maybe for that spoon-playin' autistic boy who's made friends with a giant cockroach. Needed more swearing from Charles S. Dutton.
Rated 19 Jun 2012
billyshearsBillyShears
Rated 10 Jul 2013
70
53rd
Give del Toro about 20 more years and they'll be doing the monsters instead of killing them.
Rated 10 Jul 2013
rihreyrihrey
Rated 04 Feb 2024
36
31st
One character says she was dating some guy and that he eventually told her that he wears "female underwear", and the lead woman said "What a pervert"; gotta love it when the leads are the ones saying bigoted shit. As for the movie itself, I'm not gagging. There are so many ridiculously dark scenes with 50 cuts per second as if it weren't hard enough to see as it is. It's all very generic and underwhelming, BLEH.
Rated 04 Feb 2024
mirelurkMirelurk
Rated 17 Apr 2022
68
41st
Fun upper tier B-movie by del Toro. Effects by legendary Rob Bottin elevate this and it's simply a well shot movie which is to be expected from the big fella. Performances are not great but Sorvino gives it her all as usual. Shocked that even the CG doesn't look so bad in 2022 considering its budget and when it was released.
Rated 17 Apr 2022
wwallce4prezWWallce4prez
Rated 11 Sep 2017
65
35th
Mimic is way better than it deserves to be. Guillermo del Toro's direction and creature construction gives a screenplay with some major second half issues a much needed boost. Drippy green ooze and an abundance of stickiness have an almost Cronenberg aspect to them. On another note, why does Charles S. Dutton yell during his entire screen time?
Rated 11 Sep 2017
gogokaingogokain
Rated 22 Oct 2012
50
53rd
Interesting concept with a neat atmosphere upfront, but man, this movie just had no idea where it wanted to go. Once they get down into the subway the whole thing just goes to total crap.
Rated 22 Oct 2012
hellboy76hellboy76
Rated 21 Sep 2010
62
30th
Interesting concept and creepily directed by del Toro, but this would have been almost impossible to execute effectively.
Rated 21 Sep 2010
leonardisLeonardis
Rated 21 Oct 2022
71
13th
It may have gotten a theatrical release, but it feels like essentially a made-for-tv-movie you’d see on the Syfy Channel, one you don’t love but sort of keep watching because it’s cool and interesting enough to keep your attention, even through commercial breaks. If that’s what GDT’s worst movie is like, I’m not mad. I liked the directing and lore, I just wish it had better characters and more effective scares. Screw the Weinsteins for what they did to this movie. Still not awful though.
Rated 21 Oct 2022
jbynjbyn
Rated 17 Oct 2022
50
9th
It was a mediocre creature film. A lot of energy went into character building and showing relationships, but in the end it felt pointless as everything was left untied.
Rated 17 Oct 2022
panzerwolfpanzerwolf
Rated 23 Sep 2022
65
46th
Damn, this was a pretty damn solid monster movie. I didn't have a lot of expectations going into it because the premise seemed a bit wonky, but it's a well-built horror/action movie with decent thrills, great monster design, and scenes with plenty of suspense. The characters often make some pretty weird and frustrating decisions, but that seems to be the usual horror trope. I also thought that having the kid around seemed off and in the end, he didn't really serve much of a purpose in the movie.
Rated 23 Sep 2022
amerigoamerigo
Rated 24 Jan 2022
67
15th
Boooring. Half-assed acting, an overly dull Ninja-Turtle cinematography and Del Toro's usually deft directorial touch buried under Weinstein meddling. The only positive is the creature effects, which only occasionslly mimic Alien.
Rated 24 Jan 2022
thegreyfoxthegreyfox
Rated 19 Apr 2017
60
32nd
Good looking entomologist goes from hero to zero when her attempts to cure a disease using a bioengineered termite goes horribly wrong. Her Husband manages to cure the resulting nasty bug problem by blowing them all up, along with half of manhattan (but not of course, the good looking entomologist, or indeed himself) and they all live happily ever after. The problem with "M" is that it is very cliched,and totally fails to build characters that we care about, so for me, they could have all died
Rated 19 Apr 2017
iconogassediconogassed
Rated 30 Sep 2016
40
17th
[director's cut]
Rated 30 Sep 2016
cg5007Cg5007
Rated 14 Nov 2015
86
31st
Not Del Toro's best, but still a very effective and creepy movie. It does drag sometimes though.
Rated 14 Nov 2015
thedicemanTheDiceman
Rated 09 Nov 2015
25
6th
Oh it's bad.
Rated 09 Nov 2015
sopachuco13sopachuco13
Rated 05 Jul 2015
60
17th
The only way to end a sci-fi, horror movie is to make it seem like everything was completely annihilated while leaving something open to be picked up again later. Guillermo del Toro adds his own spin to this by the numbers horror sci-fi movie. The Mexican shoeshine with his dumb little boy were a nod to Del Toro's origins. Mira Sorvino was pretty forgettable as the lead role. Josh Brolin made a brief appearance in the movie. Charles S. Dutton fits nicely into the background.
Rated 05 Jul 2015
troothTrooth
Rated 02 Sep 2014
44
14th
Basically, there are two kinds of Guillermo del Toro movies. There are the passion projects like Pan's Labyrinth and The Devil's Backbone where you can see all the toil and care that went into them... And then there are movies that just cathartically pay homage to things he likes. Movies like Pacific Rim and Hellboy. This is the second type. It feels like an homage to creature features and other sci-fi b-movies of decades past, but doesn't really elevate itself beyond that genre.
Rated 02 Sep 2014
isaboojumisaboojum
Rated 26 Aug 2014
1
10th
A plague of real ordinary cockroaches would be far scarier than these silly humanoid insects. What a waste of everything. I didn't make it to the end.
Rated 26 Aug 2014
zipsterZipster
Rated 11 Aug 2014
80
50th
You very rarely get the kind of perfectly, specifically navigated exposition designed purely and with full effort to keep you worried about what's going to happen next. Loaded with underrated actors, all of whom refuse to simply send up the material and actually make sympathetic three-dimensional characters out of it. So when the cockroach-humanoid attacks, it's a big deal because we care about the separate, distinct people under attack.
Rated 11 Aug 2014
yiannosYiannos
Rated 08 Jul 2014
58
42nd
Del Toro is working overtime to create a truly hellish vision of N.Y's underground railroad. In this regard, Mimic is a triumph of atmosphere over storytelling: you can just feel the bugs crawling across the murky subway floor. The sense of grimy claustrophobic dread is immediately palpable. But when you cast Mira Sorvino as a brilliant entomologist, it stretches the limits of plausibility, even within this fantastical context.
Rated 08 Jul 2014
moraesfelipemoraesfelipe
Rated 30 May 2014
50
33rd
Del Toro came out of this pretty unsatisfied with the final result -- he didn't have the final cut in his first Hollywood flick --, but it still partially works as an expensive B sci-fi. His passion for muddy, dark ambients and grotesque, unborn creatures find plenty of space -- and budget -- to be shown, despite the film's romantic concessions -- Mira, the scientist who created these Judas, can't have a baby, but her act saved thousands in the past. She ends up getting one -- Manny's Chuy.
Rated 30 May 2014
dougiedDougieD
Rated 15 Jul 2013
55
19th
By-the-numbers creature feature with great set design.
Rated 15 Jul 2013
glm01glm01
Rated 18 Jan 2013
58
19th
58.33
Rated 18 Jan 2013
tvfilm_hubTV+Film-Hub
Rated 04 Aug 2012
7
40th
It's a low budget horror about giant insects, but it kept me interested all the way through. It's not going to blow your mind, but you could find it enjoyable. There are certainly better films out there. I don't think there are better insect horrors, though.
Rated 04 Aug 2012
eric_janeric-jan
Rated 01 Aug 2012
65
30th
Amazing pacing, worth the watch, plus you can always count on this movie if you're bored! Also great idea for a movie. A strange title though. The little boy has a strange role :S and almost the whole movie is underground.
Rated 01 Aug 2012
davidblastDavidBlast
Rated 29 Apr 2012
35
20th
The rather unfortunate prequel to 'Starship Troopers'.
Rated 29 Apr 2012
afx237viafx237vi
Rated 04 Dec 2011
40
23rd
Del Toro's love of creepy crawlies taken the to the extreme in a fairly mediocre B-movie creature feature. The insects themselves are well-designed and suitably grotesque, although the CGI ones are not too convincing, but this is let down by a truly formulaic plot, one-dimensional characters and a poor script. Sorvino and Northam are just way too bland for the lead roles and there's really nothing that stands out other than the design of the insects.
Rated 04 Dec 2011
workdalobstaWorkdaLobsta
Rated 29 Nov 2011
78
38th
The ending is creepy as all get out.
Rated 29 Nov 2011
glmglm
Rated 25 Dec 2010
58
25th
58.000
Rated 25 Dec 2010
billkerwinbillkerwin
Rated 27 Jan 2010
75
27th
Pretty scary. Not great, but I enjoyed it.
Rated 27 Jan 2010
easydiffeasydiff
Rated 07 Oct 2009
60
60th
Pretty fun monster romp. Guillermo del Toro definitely shows off his monster movie chops, but sadly it's chomp-by-numbers
Rated 07 Oct 2009
victorfreezevictorfreeze
Rated 31 Aug 2009
45
14th
Weak
Rated 31 Aug 2009
nachtwulfnachtwulf
Rated 19 Aug 2009
80
55th
Deceint horror flick, but they go downhill fast
Rated 19 Aug 2009
anselmi86Anselmi86
Rated 13 Aug 2009
66
45th
Though it stalls out in the last act, this is a great sci fi/horror flick with a fantastic score.
Rated 13 Aug 2009
okkervilOkkervil
Rated 01 Aug 2009
70
67th
Nice example of how to make a fun, and mildly thrilling horror style B-movie based on an entertaining short story. Del Toro pulls of some nice tricks in this film and its well worth a watch.
Rated 01 Aug 2009
joseywalesjoseywales
Rated 29 Apr 2009
47
20th
Safe and happy Hollywood dreck that almost lost us the talents of a remarkable visionary director.
Rated 29 Apr 2009
cruelclowncruelclown
Rated 08 Apr 2009
35
9th
there are many other movies like that out there and this one doesn't have anything which makes it special, other than it was directed by del Toro of Hellboy and Pan's Labyrinth fame.
Rated 08 Apr 2009
mjvmoviemanMJVmovieMan
Rated 01 Sep 2008
74
63rd
Despite some aged and tacky CGI effects, Guillermo Del Toro's supposedly studio-chopped thriller "Mimic" stands pretty well as a slimy and eerie creature feature. The director delivers a film with an age old plot about a mutated species bred to stop a killer human infection, but I like the bugs and a lot of the puppetry/robotics used there, the atmosphere is great - and Del Toro knows terror. Whether or not it's his final product, "Mimic" is aged but effective in its own right. Solid thrills.
Rated 01 Sep 2008
vandelay1Vandelay1
Rated 27 Jun 2008
71
79th
good movie
Rated 27 Jun 2008
tripwyreTripwyre
Rated 18 Mar 2008
49
28th
Half of a good movie, ruined by Weinstein fuckery. Del Toro does a few neat things with the bugs, and I like the concept, but every time I start to get into the moody atmosphere, a quick cut jump scare will pull me out of it. The auto-pilot ending is a snoozer, too. Blame the Weinsteins, as del Toro has practically disowned the finally product as his own work for what it devolved into (oh irony!). A few original ideas here, but it's mostly standard shlock. Well-done shlock is still shlock.
Rated 18 Mar 2008
dustydDustyd
Rated 16 Sep 2007
70
63rd
Well made B horror.
Rated 16 Sep 2007
prisonerPrisoner
Rated 18 Aug 2007
65
31st
Neat concept, not that great.
Rated 18 Aug 2007
grimsoothgrimsooth
Rated 14 Aug 2007
7
0th
This movie is a sack of crap with misleading advertising. The taglines were all BS. This movie is about killer cockroaches that "rapidly evolved" due the thier reduced life spans. This movie is so stupid I want to hurt myself.
Rated 14 Aug 2007
ripviciousripvicious
Rated 14 Aug 2007
79
49th
An underated movie probably because of the horrible ending. Good action throughout.
Rated 14 Aug 2007
citysqwirlcitysqwirl
Rated 14 Aug 2007
56
15th
Really cool premise, and I love the cast, but the execution falls flat.
Rated 14 Aug 2007
irvinejumpirvinejump
Rated 14 Aug 2007
66
54th
cheesy, but still better than some. Best if your mind's in neutral
Rated 14 Aug 2007
yilbyilb
Rated 14 Aug 2007
10
2nd
New mod opening credits catapult into deathly slow premise building. Mira is more than enough woman to carry the picture, but aside from one brief underwear scene her face just isn't gonna do it. Ditto the fake bug monsters who get little screen time and the crappy soundtrack. Is the editor trying to build tension with cuts that look like i'm channel surfing? We barely get to see any one "get it," but the sets are lovely. Shoulda walked out.
Rated 14 Aug 2007
explodingboyExplodingBoy
Rated 14 Aug 2007
54
24th
Meh.
Rated 14 Aug 2007
tripleshTripleSH
Rated 14 Aug 2007
50
32nd
Mimic barely succeeds because it preys on our natural disgust and loathing of cockroaches for the most part. Well, at least that's my take.
Rated 14 Aug 2007
spoonerspotspoonerspot
Rated 14 Aug 2007
70
12th
Ever Mira Sorvino coundn't save this.
Rated 14 Aug 2007
mathewMathew
Rated 14 Aug 2007
75
71st
Good film, not the best one ever made, but has good suspence and is well executed. Worth the cash.
Rated 14 Aug 2007
cheesebadgerCheesebadger
Rated 07 Aug 2007
30
10th
I dunno who though to make this pile, or why Guillermo decided to sign on, but guh...
Rated 07 Aug 2007
matthias99Matthias99
Rated 12 Jul 2007
70
14th
...not very good. Not totally unwatchable, but getting close.
Rated 12 Jul 2007
stainStain
Rated 30 Mar 2007
90
86th
Well-made and REALLY scary
Rated 30 Mar 2007
nilkynarfynilkynarfy
Rated 20 Mar 2007
40
26th
"Welcome to Hollywood, Señor del Toro! Before you start, let us reiterate our appreciation for... (what was it called?) Croco-- Cong-- Cronos! What a vision! We can only hope your vision, matched with our patronage, will create a masterpiece. We trust you received the astroglide gift basket at the airport." The del Toroness that does make it to the surface almost saves this one, but this is Woo directing a formulaic Van Damme action flick all over again.
Rated 20 Mar 2007
voggisvoggis
Rated 26 Dec 2006
76
71st
Surprisingly good, despite its low budget. Good special effects and the settings are quite scaring.
Rated 26 Dec 2006
brendomanbrendoman
Rated 01 Dec 2006
80
17th
Pretty good suspense/thriller.
Rated 01 Dec 2006

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