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Mixed or average reviews- based on 12 Ratings

  • Starring: Mira Sorvino
  • Summary: 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) Expand
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 15
  2. Negative: 2 out of 15
  1. Reviewed by: Ray Sawhill
    90
    Mimic is undoubtedly the best mutant-cockroach horror thriller ever made. Even granting that there hasn't been much competition, this is intended as a high compliment.
  2. In Mimic, director Guillermo Del Toro has created a dark, grotesque world that's hard to look at, and impossible to stop looking at.
  3. 60
    Creepy, beautifully designed horror yarn about mutant roaches that delivers both artfully eerie atmosphere and some boffo shocks.
  4. Reviewed by: Michael Sragow
    30
    Mimic is static, highhanded, and confused, wasting most of its 105-minute running time simply spelling out the premise.

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  1. PratikK.
    5
    Its a good movie and good effects but the conversations are so ridiculous that anyone can be bore.
  2. 5
    del Toro manages to create moments of tension and horror, but when the movie finishes, you will be left wondering which parts you had not seen before.
  3. This is a movie that the kids absolutely wanted to see and I thought, since it was directed by Guillermo del Toro, that it might be okay even though it was on SyFy who doesn Expand