Mimic . Tucson Weekly . 09-08-97

Mimic

DIRECTED BY: Guillermo Del Toro

REVIEWED: 09-08-97

Mira Sorvino stars in this dim-witted, dimly lit monster flick about gigantic cockroaches living in the New York subway system. Directed by Guillermo Del Toro (Chronos) and co-penned by John Sayles and Stephen Soderbergh, you'd expect the film to be a triumph of independent invention and spirit, but no luck. Despite intriguing Kafka-esque possibilities in which las cucarachas take on the appearance of humans in order to walk the streets undetected, the picture soon devolves into Alien-style cat-and-mouse games full of shadowy corridors and dripping bug goo. Tons of dripping bug goo. Though always attractive and likable, Sorvino is rather embarrassing as an action hero, and the huge cockroaches never prove as creepy as the real-life little ones. Get out of my sight, you steenking cockroach movie.

--Woodruff

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