Mimic
A Pre-exam Obsession
19 November 1997

Wednesday. Just a day before exam and I feel really suicidal -- in a studying 
sense. An intense lethargy has overcome me. I want to watch a movie. Mimic is 
the name. I've been contemplating about it for, what, days? So, in the morning, 
when I found out mom has dropped the car and instead took the commuter to work, 
I naturally decided, what the heck. I'm going! This pre-exam obsessions are 
quite common with me. I've got certain obsessions at  certain times, so go 
figure.

So, at around 12 pm, I drove to Sunway  pyramid. I got there in the nick of 
time. Using my card, I got a $2 discount.


The Movie….kewl!
I hate those clicking noises. I sure appreciate them killing the cockroaches, 
but when they grew too big….'shit hanging on the walls', the return of Josh 
Brolin (!) and lots of ugly insects. Oh, and the 'man' disguises that the 
insects use…kewl!

The Story
Mimic stars Mira Sorvino of Leaving Las Vegas fame (I think) and the guy who 
stared as Mr. Knightly in Emma (Jeremy Northam). The children of New York are 
dying from a strange disease from which cockroaches are carriers. Desperate, 
Dr. Susan Tyler (Sorvino) creates a new breed of insects, nicknamed the 'Judas 
breed' that eats them cockroaches alive. Well needless to say, those 
cockroaches died, NY is safe. So they think. Well, zip 6 months away. We see a 
tall guy in a trenchcoat drag a 


The Review
Hey, I'm an easy reviewer, so I'm going to say this a great movie- if you need 
to release tension or simply bored out of your mind. In other words, a great 
movie for relaxation. Or stress. Depends on how you look at it. This whole 
movie is heavy on shock quality. No deep moral dilemmas here except the fact 
that Dr. Tyler's Judases has become her Frankenstein and she has to destroy 
them. I love the claustrophobia of the whole show. The sense of entrapment, and 
the tense scene at the end where they had to complete a task in order to escape 
the tunnels with a train. Which is odd…because towards the end, they didn't use 
the end, so the deaths that resulted seem almost a wasted effort. 

	There 's also a scene where they had to rub insect innards on themselves 
in order to fool the insects into believing that they are one of them.  Gosh, 
there's one scene where Northam's character was fixing some cables and an 
insect suddenly appeared beside him (and them buggers are huge) and casually 
sauntered past him like any Judas would. Gosh, when he sighed and rubbed 
himself with the innards further, I can only applaud.

A predictable ending, although I didn't exactly expect Northam's character to 
live. I applaud that. I hate tragedies. Moral dillemas aside, this is a well 
crafted thriller but its no Aliens . It's a Relic done in a different 
environment. The Star described it as a 'Seen one, seen 'em all' "Mimic emerges 
out of its cocoon as a stylish B-grade movie with A-list actors" I beg to 
differ. More like A-. It's a good romp. Give it some credit! All I wished 
however, was a chance to see it with some friends, but unfortunately, some 
people had more sense than I. To see a movie on the eve of a difficult exam! By 
the way, I took Media Planning the next day and I think I got clobbered. I got 
so nervous during the exam that Iwent to toilet because of a stomach ache. 
Plus, I forgot my calculator.  Mimic must have jarred me more than I thought! ? 
The Verdict: ???? That's for cheering me up before MP exam!