Mimic . Newcity Chicago . 10-27-97

Mimic

DIRECTED BY: Guillermo Del Toro

REVIEWED: 10-27-97

Guillermo del Toro made an impressive debut with the vampire movie "Cronos," and "Mimic" extends his knack for creating an oppressive atmosphere filled with dread and a Cronenberg-like fascination with damp and goo and fluids that should not be loosed from the body. As genre pictures go, "Mimic" is gorgeous and glistening, a triumph of atmosphere suggesting itself as a menacing machine of unnamable dread. But once the menace is named -- those damn man-sized flying cockroaches taking advantage of science's DNA-splicing experiments! -- "Mimic" devolves into formula. But it's an eyeful along the way with better-than-average "AHHHHHHHHHH!"s. In the accustomed fashion of Miramax's genre divison, Dimension Films, good actors take the busman's holiday and grin or shriek at the appropriate explosive or eviscerating cues, and Mira Sorvino, Jeremy Northam, Josh Brolin, Giancarlo Giannini, Charles S. Dutton and an eyebrow-and-toupee-raising F. Murray Abraham are among those going to splat for the Miramax team this go-round.

--Ray Pride

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