Evengyny Thanks for the memories!

InformationRap This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

Allison Davies The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

Staci Frederick Blistering performances.

Python Hyena Mimic (1997): Dir: Guilleramo Del Toro / Cast: Mira Sorvino, Jeremy Northam, Josh Brolin, Charles S. Dutton, F. Murray Abraham: Appropriately titled because it copies every Alien inspired film out there. Mira Sorvino plays a scientist who creates a breed of insects called Judas Breed through genetic engineering. It is suppose to destroy a troublesome roach population and die after six months but that doesn't seem to happen. When people begin to disappear Sorvino and company venture down to an old subway area where they are picked off one by one. Screenplay is completely recycled without a shred of originality. Director Guilleramo Del Toro has fun with it, which is fitting since he made Cronos. The special effects are the film's best asset although they never distract from the fact that we have seen variations of them in better films. Sorvino is way too talented for such flat material. At one point she is abducted by one of the creatures, but in theory, it was probably preventing her from fleeing the set. Among flat supporting players are Jeremy Northam, Josh Brolin and Charles S. Dutton and they are basically there to play lunch on the menu for these creatures to dine upon. F. Murray Abraham is an Oscar winner and seeing him reduced to this is painful. It is a pointless parade of disgust that should never be mimicked or even seen again for that matter. Score: 2 / 10

gavin6942 Three years ago, entomologist Dr. Susan Tyler (Mira Sorvino) genetically created an insect to kill cockroaches carrying a virulent disease. Now, the insects are out to destroy their only predator, mankind.This film is loved by some people and that is clear by the sequels it received. Exactly why is unclear, as it is rather average and not a highlight of 1990s horror. Specifically why Del Toro disowned it is not known to me, but it does have to rank among the lowest of his career, so that is not surprising.There are some good concepts. The idea of genetic modification is always popular for a science-gone-wrong story. And we also have the idea of an invasive species: introducing a species to remove an old one, only to to find the new ones has things we may not like about it.

mikey undead I first saw this film when I was around 12. I enjoyed it but didn't really remember any of it apart from how creepy the Judas Breed was. Now 27 and being a huge Del Toro fan I decided to rewatch this and when I heard how Del Toro had disowned this movie because of studio meddling but had now released a director's cut that he was happy with, I had to check it out.I still enjoyed it and thought the first half of the film was fantastic, dark, creepy atmosphere with a great premise but to me once the whole cast descend into the tunnels the films goes a bit downhill.It becomes too typical Hollywood monster action movie and we see way too much of the Judas Breed which loses its creep factor it had in the first half. The ending as well is too Hollywood for a Del Toro film.The director's cut adds in a few more scenes which explains things a little more but don't improve the movie much at all, so if you hated the theatrical cut you wont like this version much more.Overall it's an enjoyable film and if you're a Del Toro fan or monster movie fan check it out just know its not one of his best but had lots of potential. If he had made it nowadays it could have been great.6/10

Sam_Youno I lived and worked and rode the subways in Manhattan for 15 years, and I think that the MPAA should have included a notice at the beginning of this film: "All insects shown actual size."I'm a huge fan of Guillermo del Toro, both his horror/fantasy films and his all-for-fun monster movies, and I simply couldn't understand how the mind that created a masterpiece such as "Cronos" could turn around and spew out something as just plain ORDINARY as "Mimic." I found at least part of the explanation here on IMDb: After repeated on-set changes by the producer, Bob Weinstein, del Toro apparently disowned the film. Still, his name is up there as Director, so he can't escape all the blame.All the usual horror ingredients are here: the dark, cluttered, brooding sets; the blink-and-you'll-miss-'em split-second shadowy glimpses of the creatures; the monstrous jaws trailing strands of slime as they open; the cute young heroine who is also a world-class scientist (and, of course, half of the love-interest subplot); and so on. The problem is not that any of this stuff is done badly; it's that everything has been done before (and since). That is not what one expects from Guillermo del Toro. I've seen all his full-length films; some, such as "Pan's Labyrinth," are in my opinion among the best movies every made, and even the least serious of them, "Pacific Rim," shows an ingenuity and attention to detail that pull it out of the "comic-book film" category and make it something special. "Mimic" is the only one of his films that simply drags.Still, it's probably the only film ever made in which the line, "There's some weird sh*t in here!" can be taken absolutely literally.