Mimic The Directors Cut Blu-ray Digital HD

I watched Mimic in 1997, it was great then and now in 2025, I watched it a second time. It still holds up. A terrific movie even by today's visual standards. I didn't even remember Josh Brolin was in it. Definitely 5 Stars Read more

There's art, and then there's commerce. The idea is to make money and entertain. I found it wholly disingenuous for Guillermo Del Toro to complain throughout his "reclaiming Mimic" featurette, that he never got to make the movie he intended but that this was a good compromise but that he hated compromising, especially when his vision was better, but this still isn't the movie he set out to make, but it's close enough, but even so, he hated the ending and.......whatever. There's a way around that, it's called a remake. Directors do it all the time. Stop whining. As incredibly overstated by Del Toro, the ideas he didn't get to include in Mimic wouldn't necessarily have made for a better film. It's also a slap in the face to suggest we fell in love with the wrong film because it was more Hollywood, rather than the conceptual piece he had planned. And that's why I find it odd that this is called the director's cut. I don't know why Del Toro endorsed this new version when clearly he still isn't happy with it. I don't think it matters much because this is still the movie I fell in love with and the version I'm keeping in my collection (Guillermo Del Toro notwithstanding). I've always found this movie to be sufficiently eerie, the shadowy figures that look human but aren't (how easy it would be to pass one and not think it wasn't human until it was too late). I like the characters, the situations, the ill fated investigation underground, the fabulously first gore-ific killing followed by an inelegant exit down the drain. Part mystery, part horror, part action-flick, this is a seamless piece of entertainment. Read more

The opening credits alone of this hybrid, bio-scifi thriller are enough to breed nightmares: Squirming beetle tendrils silhouetted over images of diseased children as the texts darts in and out of focus at off angles. Right off the bat you know you're in for a dark ride. This is one of those truly outlaw mainstream films; a slick, polished production which deftly avoids formulaic Hollywood conventions. It is the classic Frankenstein scenario, updated to 90's New York with an insectile twist: A well-meaning lady entomologist breeds a super insect as the only means of containing a lethal epidemic carried by the common cockroach. The plan is a success, the plague is vanquished - but a whole new horror is unknowingly unleashed upon humanity, when this lab-bred creation begins to evolve, over the following years, on its own ....... Without giving too much more away, the pace of this dark ride accelerates rapidly, with an offbeat unpredictability that keeps the viewer riveted. The claustrophobic setting of NYC's decaying subway infrastructure is a ruinous manmade environment turned alien, out of control, not our world anymore .... a breeding place for the oversized Mantis-Roaches, who enter and pass through our nighttime urban wastelands, undetected with the help of a cleverly evolved "disguise", to prey upon derelicts or any who would dare violate their territory (an element recalling "Wolfen"). As our ragtag ensemble confronts the big buggy baddies, sympathetic characters (the comic relief, no less) and even kids aren't safe from nasty bits of onscreen massacre, and generous quantities of, um, fluids are spilled on both sides of the food chain in the course of correcting this ecological abomination. Like a small-scale "Starship Troopers" gone underground, lots of ooze and aahhs. For high energy, bleak, repugnant fun, "Mimic" is one of the better recent popcorn-level diversions, with impressive effects, immaculate sound, and just enough brain candy and class to keep the more jaded creature feature veterans interested. One small word of caution: you will hear noises afterwards that may remind you of that ominous skittering chatter, and a small boy's voice saying, "Funny, funny shoes .... funny, funny shoes ...." Read more