This time for my horror month I watch Mimic directed by Guillermo del Toro about giant killer bugs which I found very boring. Well lets begin.
Our movies starts off in Manhattan were a virus called Strickler's Disease(which is spread by cockroaches) is killing many children so our main character an entomologist named Susan ends the threat by creating a new breed of insect(because I guess you can just do that) to wipe out the cockroaches. And everything was fine, until three years later when the plot begins. It's revealed that the new breed of insect called the Judas Breed was designed to die out after one generation but of course they said "screw that we're going to grow human size". Eventually it's discovered that the insects are in the sewers and after a few dead bodies their hive is destroyed as well their only fertile male. And they all lived happily ever after as well as Susan husband Peter who somehow survived blowing up the hive in fact I bet the explosion made him feel better.
One reason I didn't like this movie is actually the movie's own fault, because the title refers to the main type of giant insects who can take human form thus blend in with humans. Near the end of the film Susan describes how the Mimics(as their dubbed) could enter our society and create a colony within us to wipe us out, and frankly I think that would have made a more interesting climax than a hand full of people wandering around a sewer system. Or maybe they could have something like The Thing which would have been amazing.
In the end I see Mimic as a boring padded creature film that although as some tense moments really falls flat in the horror department. I say skip it. This is WinterDeathPeach saying peace out.
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