MIMIC: SENTINEL

US, 2003, 77 minutes, Colour.

Karl Geary, Alexis Dziena, Rebecca Mader, Lance Henriksen, Keith D.Robinson, Amanda Plummer, John Kapelos.

Directed by Jay.T.Petty.

It is not too difficult to agree with this entry from an IMDb blogger except to add that it is very much a steal from Hitchcock’s Rear Window, an exercise in voyeurism, a young man confined to his room because of danger of infection, his gallery of photos, his discovering the reproduction of the mimic bugs and their devastation, some drug dealing in the area, the Garbageman and his ambiguous behaviour, along with his sister who is an arch-irritant, and girlfriend from his peering into her window, a detective who claims to be more than is but who is courting the young man’s mother.

Horrible, save valuable minutes of your life-don't watch! livetvmatt. 1 November 2004

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.