Amazon.com video review:
An ultracreepy blend of horror and fantasy (think of it as
Beauty and the Bugs) from Mexican director Guillermo del Toro
(Cronos) about giant cockroaches in the subway tunnels beneath
Manhattan. Like its DNA-altered spawn (the title refers to the way
some insects evolve to resemble their predators), Mimic is not
your everyday bug picture, but a more poetic (though quite gruesome)
sort of film, literally crawling with bizarre, striking images. In
this case, the mutant bugs are not the result of evil atomic
experiments (as in Them!), but are the unexpected side effect
of work done by an entomologist (Mira Sorvino) and her Center for
Disease Control officer husband (Jeremy Northam), who, in a last-ditch
effort to control a roach-carried disease epidemic that was killing
children, released a genetically altered form of sterile cockroaches
beneath the city. They stopped the virus, but... Also starring Charles
Dutton, Giancarlo Giannini, F. Murray Abraham, and Josh
Brolin. --Jim Emerson
