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Kojiless

Rated 19 Jun 2012

24

25th

In the sewer, no one can hear you scream...except maybe for that spoon-playin' autistic boy who's made friends with a giant cockroach. Needed more swearing from Charles S. Dutton.

Rated 19 Jun 2012

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BillyShears

Rated 10 Jul 2013

70

53rd

Give del Toro about 20 more years and they'll be doing the monsters instead of killing them.

Rated 10 Jul 2013

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rihrey

Rated 04 Feb 2024

36

31st

One character says she was dating some guy and that he eventually told her that he wears "female underwear", and the lead woman said "What a pervert"; gotta love it when the leads are the ones saying bigoted shit. As for the movie itself, I'm not gagging. There are so many ridiculously dark scenes with 50 cuts per second as if it weren't hard enough to see as it is. It's all very generic and underwhelming, BLEH.

Rated 04 Feb 2024

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Mirelurk

Rated 17 Apr 2022

68

41st

Fun upper tier B-movie by del Toro. Effects by legendary Rob Bottin elevate this and it's simply a well shot movie which is to be expected from the big fella. Performances are not great but Sorvino gives it her all as usual. Shocked that even the CG doesn't look so bad in 2022 considering its budget and when it was released.

Rated 17 Apr 2022

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WWallce4prez

Rated 11 Sep 2017

65

35th

Mimic is way better than it deserves to be. Guillermo del Toro's direction and creature construction gives a screenplay with some major second half issues a much needed boost. Drippy green ooze and an abundance of stickiness have an almost Cronenberg aspect to them. On another note, why does Charles S. Dutton yell during his entire screen time?

Rated 11 Sep 2017

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gogokain

Rated 22 Oct 2012

50

53rd

Interesting concept with a neat atmosphere upfront, but man, this movie just had no idea where it wanted to go. Once they get down into the subway the whole thing just goes to total crap.

Rated 22 Oct 2012

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hellboy76

Rated 21 Sep 2010

62

30th

Interesting concept and creepily directed by del Toro, but this would have been almost impossible to execute effectively.

Rated 21 Sep 2010

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Leonardis

Rated 21 Oct 2022

71

13th

It may have gotten a theatrical release, but it feels like essentially a made-for-tv-movie you’d see on the Syfy Channel, one you don’t love but sort of keep watching because it’s cool and interesting enough to keep your attention, even through commercial breaks. If that’s what GDT’s worst movie is like, I’m not mad. I liked the directing and lore, I just wish it had better characters and more effective scares. Screw the Weinsteins for what they did to this movie. Still not awful though.

Rated 21 Oct 2022

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jbyn

Rated 17 Oct 2022

50

9th

It was a mediocre creature film. A lot of energy went into character building and showing relationships, but in the end it felt pointless as everything was left untied.

Rated 17 Oct 2022

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panzerwolf

Rated 23 Sep 2022

65

46th

Damn, this was a pretty damn solid monster movie. I didn't have a lot of expectations going into it because the premise seemed a bit wonky, but it's a well-built horror/action movie with decent thrills, great monster design, and scenes with plenty of suspense. The characters often make some pretty weird and frustrating decisions, but that seems to be the usual horror trope. I also thought that having the kid around seemed off and in the end, he didn't really serve much of a purpose in the movie.

Rated 23 Sep 2022

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amerigo

Rated 24 Jan 2022

67

15th

Boooring. Half-assed acting, an overly dull Ninja-Turtle cinematography and Del Toro's usually deft directorial touch buried under Weinstein meddling. The only positive is the creature effects, which only occasionslly mimic Alien.

Rated 24 Jan 2022

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thegreyfox

Rated 19 Apr 2017

60

32nd

Good looking entomologist goes from hero to zero when her attempts to cure a disease using a bioengineered termite goes horribly wrong. Her Husband manages to cure the resulting nasty bug problem by blowing them all up, along with half of manhattan (but not of course, the good looking entomologist, or indeed himself) and they all live happily ever after. The problem with "M" is that it is very cliched,and totally fails to build characters that we care about, so for me, they could have all died

Rated 19 Apr 2017

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iconogassed

Rated 30 Sep 2016

40

17th

[director's cut]

Rated 30 Sep 2016

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Cg5007

Rated 14 Nov 2015

86

31st

Not Del Toro's best, but still a very effective and creepy movie. It does drag sometimes though.

Rated 14 Nov 2015

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sopachuco13

Rated 05 Jul 2015

60

17th

The only way to end a sci-fi, horror movie is to make it seem like everything was completely annihilated while leaving something open to be picked up again later. Guillermo del Toro adds his own spin to this by the numbers horror sci-fi movie. The Mexican shoeshine with his dumb little boy were a nod to Del Toro's origins. Mira Sorvino was pretty forgettable as the lead role. Josh Brolin made a brief appearance in the movie. Charles S. Dutton fits nicely into the background.

Rated 05 Jul 2015

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Trooth

Rated 02 Sep 2014

44

14th

Basically, there are two kinds of Guillermo del Toro movies. There are the passion projects like Pan's Labyrinth and The Devil's Backbone where you can see all the toil and care that went into them... And then there are movies that just cathartically pay homage to things he likes. Movies like Pacific Rim and Hellboy. This is the second type. It feels like an homage to creature features and other sci-fi b-movies of decades past, but doesn't really elevate itself beyond that genre.

Rated 02 Sep 2014

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isaboojum

Rated 26 Aug 2014

1

10th

A plague of real ordinary cockroaches would be far scarier than these silly humanoid insects. What a waste of everything. I didn't make it to the end.

Rated 26 Aug 2014

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Zipster

Rated 11 Aug 2014

80

50th

You very rarely get the kind of perfectly, specifically navigated exposition designed purely and with full effort to keep you worried about what's going to happen next. Loaded with underrated actors, all of whom refuse to simply send up the material and actually make sympathetic three-dimensional characters out of it. So when the cockroach-humanoid attacks, it's a big deal because we care about the separate, distinct people under attack.

Rated 11 Aug 2014

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Yiannos

Rated 08 Jul 2014

58

42nd

Del Toro is working overtime to create a truly hellish vision of N.Y's underground railroad. In this regard, Mimic is a triumph of atmosphere over storytelling: you can just feel the bugs crawling across the murky subway floor. The sense of grimy claustrophobic dread is immediately palpable. But when you cast Mira Sorvino as a brilliant entomologist, it stretches the limits of plausibility, even within this fantastical context.

Rated 08 Jul 2014

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moraesfelipe

Rated 30 May 2014

50

33rd

Del Toro came out of this pretty unsatisfied with the final result -- he didn't have the final cut in his first Hollywood flick --, but it still partially works as an expensive B sci-fi. His passion for muddy, dark ambients and grotesque, unborn creatures find plenty of space -- and budget -- to be shown, despite the film's romantic concessions -- Mira, the scientist who created these Judas, can't have a baby, but her act saved thousands in the past. She ends up getting one -- Manny's Chuy.

Rated 30 May 2014

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DougieD

Rated 15 Jul 2013

55

19th

By-the-numbers creature feature with great set design.

Rated 15 Jul 2013

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glm01

Rated 18 Jan 2013

58

19th

58.33

Rated 18 Jan 2013

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TV+Film-Hub

Rated 04 Aug 2012

7

40th

It's a low budget horror about giant insects, but it kept me interested all the way through. It's not going to blow your mind, but you could find it enjoyable. There are certainly better films out there. I don't think there are better insect horrors, though.

Rated 04 Aug 2012

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eric-jan

Rated 01 Aug 2012

65

30th

Amazing pacing, worth the watch, plus you can always count on this movie if you're bored! Also great idea for a movie. A strange title though. The little boy has a strange role :S and almost the whole movie is underground.

Rated 01 Aug 2012

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DavidBlast

Rated 29 Apr 2012

35

20th

The rather unfortunate prequel to 'Starship Troopers'.

Rated 29 Apr 2012

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afx237vi

Rated 04 Dec 2011

40

23rd

Del Toro's love of creepy crawlies taken the to the extreme in a fairly mediocre B-movie creature feature. The insects themselves are well-designed and suitably grotesque, although the CGI ones are not too convincing, but this is let down by a truly formulaic plot, one-dimensional characters and a poor script. Sorvino and Northam are just way too bland for the lead roles and there's really nothing that stands out other than the design of the insects.

Rated 04 Dec 2011

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WorkdaLobsta

Rated 29 Nov 2011

78

38th

The ending is creepy as all get out.

Rated 29 Nov 2011

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glm

Rated 25 Dec 2010

58

25th

58.000

Rated 25 Dec 2010

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billkerwin

Rated 27 Jan 2010

75

27th

Pretty scary. Not great, but I enjoyed it.

Rated 27 Jan 2010

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easydiff

Rated 07 Oct 2009

60

60th

Pretty fun monster romp. Guillermo del Toro definitely shows off his monster movie chops, but sadly it's chomp-by-numbers

Rated 07 Oct 2009

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victorfreeze

Rated 31 Aug 2009

45

14th

Weak

Rated 31 Aug 2009

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nachtwulf

Rated 19 Aug 2009

80

55th

Deceint horror flick, but they go downhill fast

Rated 19 Aug 2009

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Anselmi86

Rated 13 Aug 2009

66

45th

Though it stalls out in the last act, this is a great sci fi/horror flick with a fantastic score.

Rated 13 Aug 2009

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Okkervil

Rated 01 Aug 2009

70

67th

Nice example of how to make a fun, and mildly thrilling horror style B-movie based on an entertaining short story. Del Toro pulls of some nice tricks in this film and its well worth a watch.

Rated 01 Aug 2009

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joseywales

Rated 29 Apr 2009

47

20th

Safe and happy Hollywood dreck that almost lost us the talents of a remarkable visionary director.

Rated 29 Apr 2009

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cruelclown

Rated 08 Apr 2009

35

9th

there are many other movies like that out there and this one doesn't have anything which makes it special, other than it was directed by del Toro of Hellboy and Pan's Labyrinth fame.

Rated 08 Apr 2009

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MJVmovieMan

Rated 01 Sep 2008

74

63rd

Despite some aged and tacky CGI effects, Guillermo Del Toro's supposedly studio-chopped thriller "Mimic" stands pretty well as a slimy and eerie creature feature. The director delivers a film with an age old plot about a mutated species bred to stop a killer human infection, but I like the bugs and a lot of the puppetry/robotics used there, the atmosphere is great - and Del Toro knows terror. Whether or not it's his final product, "Mimic" is aged but effective in its own right. Solid thrills.

Rated 01 Sep 2008

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Vandelay1

Rated 27 Jun 2008

71

79th

good movie

Rated 27 Jun 2008

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Tripwyre

Rated 18 Mar 2008

49

28th

Half of a good movie, ruined by Weinstein fuckery. Del Toro does a few neat things with the bugs, and I like the concept, but every time I start to get into the moody atmosphere, a quick cut jump scare will pull me out of it. The auto-pilot ending is a snoozer, too. Blame the Weinsteins, as del Toro has practically disowned the finally product as his own work for what it devolved into (oh irony!). A few original ideas here, but it's mostly standard shlock. Well-done shlock is still shlock.

Rated 18 Mar 2008

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Dustyd

Rated 16 Sep 2007

70

63rd

Well made B horror.

Rated 16 Sep 2007

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Prisoner

Rated 18 Aug 2007

65

31st

Neat concept, not that great.

Rated 18 Aug 2007

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grimsooth

Rated 14 Aug 2007

7

0th

This movie is a sack of crap with misleading advertising. The taglines were all BS. This movie is about killer cockroaches that "rapidly evolved" due the thier reduced life spans. This movie is so stupid I want to hurt myself.

Rated 14 Aug 2007

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ripvicious

Rated 14 Aug 2007

79

49th

An underated movie probably because of the horrible ending. Good action throughout.

Rated 14 Aug 2007

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citysqwirl

Rated 14 Aug 2007

56

15th

Really cool premise, and I love the cast, but the execution falls flat.

Rated 14 Aug 2007

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irvinejump

Rated 14 Aug 2007

66

54th

cheesy, but still better than some. Best if your mind's in neutral

Rated 14 Aug 2007

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yilb

Rated 14 Aug 2007

10

2nd

New mod opening credits catapult into deathly slow premise building. Mira is more than enough woman to carry the picture, but aside from one brief underwear scene her face just isn't gonna do it. Ditto the fake bug monsters who get little screen time and the crappy soundtrack. Is the editor trying to build tension with cuts that look like i'm channel surfing? We barely get to see any one "get it," but the sets are lovely. Shoulda walked out.

Rated 14 Aug 2007

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ExplodingBoy

Rated 14 Aug 2007

54

24th

Meh.

Rated 14 Aug 2007

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TripleSH

Rated 14 Aug 2007

50

32nd

Mimic barely succeeds because it preys on our natural disgust and loathing of cockroaches for the most part. Well, at least that's my take.

Rated 14 Aug 2007

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spoonerspot

Rated 14 Aug 2007

70

12th

Ever Mira Sorvino coundn't save this.

Rated 14 Aug 2007

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Mathew

Rated 14 Aug 2007

75

71st

Good film, not the best one ever made, but has good suspence and is well executed. Worth the cash.

Rated 14 Aug 2007

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Cheesebadger

Rated 07 Aug 2007

30

10th

I dunno who though to make this pile, or why Guillermo decided to sign on, but guh...

Rated 07 Aug 2007

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Matthias99

Rated 12 Jul 2007

70

14th

...not very good. Not totally unwatchable, but getting close.

Rated 12 Jul 2007

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Stain

Rated 30 Mar 2007

90

86th

Well-made and REALLY scary

Rated 30 Mar 2007

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nilkynarfy

Rated 20 Mar 2007

40

26th

"Welcome to Hollywood, Señor del Toro! Before you start, let us reiterate our appreciation for... (what was it called?) Croco-- Cong-- Cronos! What a vision! We can only hope your vision, matched with our patronage, will create a masterpiece. We trust you received the astroglide gift basket at the airport." The del Toroness that does make it to the surface almost saves this one, but this is Woo directing a formulaic Van Damme action flick all over again.

Rated 20 Mar 2007

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voggis

Rated 26 Dec 2006

76

71st

Surprisingly good, despite its low budget. Good special effects and the settings are quite scaring.

Rated 26 Dec 2006

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brendoman

Rated 01 Dec 2006

80

17th

Pretty good suspense/thriller.

Rated 01 Dec 2006

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