Mimic: Sentinel (2003)

This movie is the proof that the world is becoming a sick and dumb place

This Movie Can Only Be Described With One Word.

Masterful Cinema

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

Stuck inside his apartment complex, a young cancer survivor who's an avid amateur photographer begins to suspect he's capturing a series of giant bug attacks around the building and tries to get the authorities to believe him before the creatures spread into the city.There wasn't all that much in here that was really all that good. The majority of what works in this is the gradual buildup of the different methods to show the strange activity around the building, with his absolutely fanatical approach to photographing everything making for a rather interesting spin on the material. Though clichéd, it gives the scenes a distinct sense of voyeurism into something they shouldn't be doing, and adds a distinct sense of danger to the situation that is put on fine display with the searching around in his apartment where they believe it's empty and begin searching only to eventually find something else with them. As well, a lot of the fun here is due to the final minutes of the film as the insects are finally let loose and allowed to become the threats they really are. They're involved in two big attacks in that span, both of which are simply fantastic from the assault on the group out in the street during the purchase and the insects appear to spoil it all, while the apartment setting is simply creepy. Without a doubt, the best sequence is the refrigerator attack, where one is trapped inside a refrigerator and the insects repeatedly try to break through the door to get in. What makes it work is that it's completely told all throughout by the point-of-view of them inside, and when the door is closed, it's pitch-black inside only from the light to come crashing in when the door gets pulled open. It lends itself greatly to scares as it's original, inventive and actually suspenseful when the sudden crashes occur. Coupled with the nice gore, these comprise all the film's positives as there isn't that big of problems with this film. The biggest problem is that there's really nothing of real interest for the longest portion of the film. Just about all of the film's time is spent building up the relationship and giving reason for the adults to distrust them. That this is done in such a manner that you're watching the film from his point, and while it does work in that it gives us a great perspective on the film, unfortunately it means it holds back on everything you'll have come to watch this film for, the killer insects. The insects eventually decide to show up, but by they're coming in so late in the movie makes the beginning nearly impossible to sit through. How much you'll actually see of them varies from nothing to just a little. They look pretty cheap and are mainly confined to the shadows. In the other films, the insects represented a threat to humanity and you always felt that there were sufficient numbers of them and they were tough enough to pose a challenge. Here they don't. It's a real disturbing thought that the titular creatures can't even show up inside they're own film until the end. Otherwise, this is at least tolerable.Rated R: Graphic Violence, Graphic Language and graphic attacks on children.

It was simply boring from the beginning till the end. There were also some flaws, like how the Judas breed mimics its human like face.I had high expectations but it didn't give me the excitement i was looking for. Just too bad. :(I didn't like it. Wouldn't recommend it. Mimic 1 and 2 were good. 3 *vomit*.I read a review who said the 3 movies weren't connected except for the theme. But in the second movie the leading role ( forgot her name for a second) has memories of the female in the first movie...

Man, this movie sucked sh!t through a straw. First, one has to overcome about more than an hour of nonsensical voyeurism, than - out of the blue - some unrecognizable roaches show up from out of the blue and than, klabbam!, there the pitiful apocalypse: the monsters die and the good guy, his sister and his - to be - lover are miraculously saved and all is well again.I wonder what the producers were thinking. The first two Mimics I liked a lot. For the disgusting effects and the, more or less, tension throughout the pictures, but this third was a bunch of crap. It was actually rather sad, on the filmer's account, to focus on the breasts of Rosy to create some kind of, whatever, image: an American teenage girl, smoking dope once in a while, looking good and showing off her bra. Well, one good thing; she didn't die.This movie made no sense. Whatsoever. I'm sorry I watched it.Dikke Jules (Fat Jules)

In a decay neighborhood, the asthmatic and allergic amateurish photographer Marvin Montrose (Karl Geary) spends his days and nights confined in his room snooping his neighbors in the next building with his camera. When a boy disappears in the spot and then the local drug dealer Desmond (Keith Robinson), Marvin suspects of a mysterious garbage man (Lance Henriksen) and his sister Rosy (Alexis Dziena) and her friend Carmen (Rebecca Mader) investigate him. Meanwhile, Marvin witnesses the death of Detective Gary Dumars (John Kapelos) and a stranger on the street by two mutant Judas Breed insects and discloses that their prime suspect is the CDC Agent Kirchner."Mimic: Sentinel" is a shameful and boring rip-off of "The Rear Window" for approximately forty minutes, with a guy confined in his room and snooping his neighbors. The character of Agent Kirchner is not well developed and the gore action is too brief, with the death of most of the characters in a few minutes. In the end, watching this forgettable movie is a pure waste of time and money. My vote is four.Title (Brazil): "Mutação 3: O Sentinela" ("Mutation 3: The Sentinel")