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Mimic - Director's Cut [Blu-ray]

Mira Sorvino , Jeremy Northam , Guillermo del Toro    Suitable for 15 years and over   Blu-ray
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Product details

  • Actors: Mira Sorvino, Jeremy Northam, Alexander Goodwin
  • Directors: Guillermo del Toro
  • Region: Region B/2 (Read more about DVD/Blu-ray formats.)
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 15
  • Studio: Studiocanal
  • DVD Release Date: 31 Oct 2011
  • Run Time: 101 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B005GJTN6C
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 15,907 in Film & TV (See Top 100 in Film & TV)

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Product Description

Guillermo Del Toro (Pan’s Labyrinth, Hellboy) presents his electirfying horror MIMIC like you’ve never seen before in a visually stunning DIRECTOR’S CUT.  Starring Academy Award winner Mira Sorvino (Mighty Aphrodite) and Josh Brolin (True Grit), MIMIC brings the epic battle between man and nature to life when a team of scientists discover that their experiment in genetic engineering has gone horribly awry.   With the power to mimic and destroy its every predator and the threat of an entire city's destruction, their creation has taken on a horrifying life of its own.

Recut and presented with in-depth special features that take you inside the film, MIMIC: THE DIRECTOR’S CUT restores Guillermo Del Toro’s vision for this chilling modern cult classic.

EXTRAS:

-    Video prologue with director Guillermo del Toro
-    Audio commentary with director/co-writer Guillermo del Toro
-    “Reclaiming Mimic” Featurette
-    “A leap in evolution – the creatures of Mimic” featurette
-    “Back into the tunnels – shooting Mimic” featurette
-    Deleted scenes
-    Storyboard animatics
-    Gag reel
-    Theatrical trailer

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars Best in the series 18 Dec 2011
Format:Blu-ray
Best in the trilogy, the original 'Mimic' benefits from well-designed and revealed creatures, interesting characters such as the autistic boy and a cracking plot, all three of which went sadly missing in the sequels.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Blu ray review 19 Jan 2012
Format:Blu-ray
A well made "creature-feature" with decently written characters, some cracking set pieces and atmosphere to spare. It might not be original but it works on every level. The blu ray transfer is however not as good as the film. In daylight or well lit scenes the picture looks great but when shifting to night scenes there is a considerable amount of grain to be found. There is also a lack of sharpness to the picture in the darker scenes which is a problem. The sound quality is however really good with a 7.1 DTS HD Master Audio.

Picture quality: 3/5
Audio quality: 4.5/5
Movie: 4/5
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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars Del Toro's disappointment 19 Mar 2012
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Format:Blu-ray
I remember vividly going to see Mimic upon its release back on July 2nd 1998. It barely got into UK cinemas, and was dumped in the tiny Screen 5 at the old Odeon cinema in Edinburgh for all of one week before disappearing. They'd never do that to a Guillermo Del Toro film now that he's a popular director. But even back then his trademark imagery of insects, muck, and oppressive weather were thick throughout the movie.

A strange virus carried by cockroaches is killing-off New York's kids until Entomologist (insect scientist) Susan Tyler (the tall, gorgeous, big-boobed Academy Award-winning Miro Sorvino, who just...vanished) and her boyfriend Peter Mann (Clive Owen's twin brother Jeremy Northam) create a new breed of cockroach to kill them off. With the children safe they all breath a sigh of relief. Then three years pass, with something sinister brewing beneath the city streets. People start to go missing in the subways, strange new insects are emerging from the grimy darkness, and what appears to be a man in a long coat is always watching from the gloomy corners.

Del Toro's vision for the film was compromised by the interference of Harvey Weinstein, who foolishly contradicted his judgment (this being the same guy who greenlit Grindhouse!). The resulting movie was disowned by Del Toro, which is a shame since you can really see the potential behind it. The planned ending for hundreds of Mimics standing around in Time Square station would have been amazing, and a natural follow-on to the plot that precedes it.

Instead the ending is rather lame, and the threat of the Mimics migrating through the tunnels and possibly taking over the world is ignored as soon as it's mentioned. A huge missed opportunity there. What a bleak, apocalyptic ending that would have been.

The so-called Director's Cut (the best parts of the script were never actually filmed) restores some minor plot points and gives us alternate dialogue. The biggest addition is the fact that Miro Sorvino's character is pregnant, but it adds NOTHING to the story, and feels rudely tacked-on.

A great example of a movie that good have been if only the producers had a clue what they were doing. For what it is...there are some decent moments to be had.

The Blu Ray presents the film in wonderfully icky 1.85:1 1080p with DTS HD-MA sound and a fair assortment of good extras.
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