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Mimic Reviews
Guillermo del Toro's director's cut adds some interesting context that was missing from its original theatrical release. But "Mimic" remains but a solid mid-level, late-'90s creature feature.
Viewers will be forgiven for wanting to rush next door and douse their neighbors with RAID.
Even after the confirmed studio interference, there's still enough of Guillermo del Toro's original vision intact to enjoy this urban creature feature.
Despite being predictable throughout, Del Toro directs with some flair and deserves to have audiences with him at the end.
"Guillermo del Toro’s Mimic (1997) uses repulsive practical effects and stylish filmmaking to bring a chilling tale of killer insects to life."
It may be a compromised vision, but Guillermo del Toro injects enough class into this killer cockroach thriller to make up for the more lackluster elements.
You can see the Weinsteins' negative interference at nearly every narrative turn, but del Toro's love of insects, dark passages and murky moral questions remain in full effect
As a sci-fi horror film, Del Toro gives it an atmospheric tone that reflects his early obsession with bugs and monsters in dark places, but it lacks effective jump scares and is populated, mostly, by contrived characters. [Full review in Spanish]
A rare del Toro misfire...
Del Toro infuses style into the details of this routine monster yarn, and along with his admirable cast and talented crew, makes a serviceable effort with enough panache to overlook its familiar blueprint.
Even though the story is your standard-issue, scary-movie pap, full of supposedly intelligent human beings making the most boneheaded decisions, those giant, flying cockroaches are still some scary mofos.
There are also a number of humanizing scenes that make us care about the characters. This is why it's so strange that all the tension and affection quickly fizzles out and never returns as soon as the action section kicks in.
...a picture revolving around human-sized killer cockroaches should be less of a slog and much more fun than this.
The atmospheric settings are the most spectacular elements, perfectly utilizing flickering tunnels, moist walkways, noisy air vents, and murky flashlight beams.
It seems Del Toro was given free rein to rework the film AND share candidly about the process that forced him to compromise so much in his original theatrical version.
Mimic will have entomophobes in the audience yearning to bug out, and scare-seekers squirming in their seats.
A dark story that entertains with artistic moments until it fizzles as it becomes derivative of those standard sci-fi horror Big Bug films from the fifties.
It comes off smarter and creepier than I recall the original, less about scares than a sustained atmosphere of eerie unease and skittery threats.
While a visual treat, Mimic is exactly that, a film which mimics other styles and plot elements. In this case Alien and David Cronenberg's The Fly and Videodrome.
It's clear now that Del Toro's favorite themes and symbols were already in place, with the vast underground setting, machinery, and man's interference in the supernatural order of things -- not to mention a talent for pure terror.