Mimic 3

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")

J.T. Perry directs this stylish entry in the giant bug series. In this entry, a diseased boy who takes pictures of neighbors begins witnessing murders. As it turns out, the murderers are surviving insects of the Judase breed (The species created in the original mimic to kill diseased insects), and soon they are eating people in the apartment building that he lives in. "Mimic 3" has good acting, especially from the wonderfully underrated Lance Hendrickson (Aliens, alien vs. Predator, the untold, super mario bros.), impressive special effects, and stylish direction. The film is truly the sparticus of the mimic series. Unfortunately, it's just too slow to get going.

At first, I couldn't help but wonder why the opening credits for Mimic 3 were rendered in a Saul Bass style typeface; it seemed a rather unusual choice for a film about giant killer cockroaches.

However, as the film unfolded, all became clear: writer/director J.T. Petty clearly fancies himself as some kind of modern-day Hitchcock, shamelessly ripping off the master of suspense's classic thriller Rear Window for this totally unnecessary second sequel to Guillermo Del Toro's rather disappointing original.

Petty, however, clearly possesses none of Hitchcock's flair for storytelling, and apart from some lingering shots of Alexis Dziena's cleavage, his film is an absolute snooze-fest. Even consummate professional Lance Henrikson, who usually provides value for money whatever the project, looks totally bored (and who can blame him?).

Hopefully, Mimic 3 marks the end of this second rate series, but you never can tell... like roaches, bad horror franchises are hard to kill.

I believe the village idiots came together and decided to make a movie. The sister character was horrible. The mother character was horrible. The detective character was horrible. The main character was badly written-but the actor did all he could to save the part. I only watched the movie through to the end to see if it would get any better. It did not!!! Could somebody explain the plot to me? Three quarters of the movie is the main character looking through his camera at various uninteresting people in the city. The movie is not very scary. The characters' motivations were not defined even once. They simply do things for no apparent reason. Let's not even talk about character development. I believe the word is non-existent. I blame the writers. This movie should have had much more thought put into it.

This is a horror film, or at least intended to be, so I'd like to point out something good - but the only thing I can come up with is that it ONLY lasted about 77 minutes!

First off, it's VERY easy to see where the writer got the inspiration for his lead character in this film - a man with no life, sitting all day in front of a window, observing people living across the street, and suddently he observes something suspecious... Wow, who called Hitchcock, cause this writer obviously saw "Rear Window (1954)" ..but anyway, all films these days are inspired by others somehow..

Secondly, the role of Rosey, "Dziena, Alexis" (qv), is acted out so annoyingly, you grow an instant dislike to her. Never saw her before, don't know if she was meant to play an annoying character and then did a hell of a job, or if she is just THAT plain annoying..

Third, I have NO idea what Amanda Plummer and Lance Henriksen is doing in this film - they must have been desprately out of cash or totally unable to see how horrible this film was.

The only horror you stumble across in this film is how terrible it is carried out.

A definate 1/10, only because a "0" won't affect the overall evaluation!