{"id":10649,"date":"2007-05-24T20:53:28","date_gmt":"2007-05-25T00:53:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=10649"},"modified":"2007-05-24T20:53:28","modified_gmt":"2007-05-25T00:53:28","slug":"mimic-sentinel-2003","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/24\/mimic-sentinel-2003\/","title":{"rendered":"Mimic: Sentinel (2003)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"mimic3\"<\/a>What happens when you have a film franchise that\u2019s lacking in almost everything required of a good film? You use a different approach. The \u201cMimic\u201d series has been nothing but abysmal, and it was only a matter of time before we had a film in the series that tried it from a different perspective. Anyone who sees this will know this is a pure rip off of \u201cSisters,\u201d front and back. The attempted psychoses, the plot twists, our nosy neighbor and his inevitable discovery. Petty rips shamelessly from the film, and while I came to accept it, it also works against the film\u2019s quality in which the film\u2019s attempted complexities come off as pure conceit and desperate. The film lacks anything nearing an esoteric framework, especially since it involves a giant bug.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Petty anxiously tries to keep the film up to the promises, but there\u2019s only so much that can be done with the story here. Which explains why it\u2019s very little over an hour, because with its limited scenery, only so much is done, and there\u2019s only so much time before the events become tedious and all the characters are off. Another major problem was the sub-plot involving Plummer\u2019s odd attraction to the local police officer who proceeds to respond to a murder call they make, and then gets into bed with her. Not only is the sub-plot incredibly stupid and flat, but it\u2019s pointless padding that manages to add nothing to the tension or suspense at all. In the \u201cSisters\u201d angles, \u201cSentinel\u201d really uses the same set-up except with a different catch. An invalid who really can\u2019t step out too far from his house, experiences the rise of a predator in his neighborhood. It\u2019s one of those damn bugs from the earlier movies, of course.<\/p>\n

And then Petty goes all out with our character experiencing these events and murders at the hands of the mimic bug through his camera, and our character Marvin\u2019s attempts to prove he witnessed these events. I was ready to peg this as a \u201cRear Window\u201d rip-off, but in actuality, it\u2019s a rip off of \u201cSisters,\u201d but that\u2019s not something I\u2019m holding against it, really. It\u2019s not a great film, and it\u2019s not something I\u2019d see again, but when compared to the dull as a doornail \u201cMimic,\u201d and the painfully stupid \u201cMimic 2,\u201d this really does rise up above the muck. And it helps that the supporting players are Amanda Plummer who is entertaining as Marvin\u2019s overbearing mother. She\u2019s memorable as the leader of the house who is over protective of Marvin, but doesn\u2019t even flinch at the prospect of her daughter dating a drug dealer. Plummer is great, and hell, she\u2019s a win for me thanks to \u201cPulp Fiction.\u201d And of course, there\u2019s Alexis Dziena who is great tension relief as the sexy stoner daughter who pulls the act off well.<\/p>\n

She\u2019s quite humorous without taking away the dread from the film, and it helps too that she\u2019s a sex kitten, pure and simple. Any doubts about that should be drawn to \u201cBroken Flowers.\u201d Petty\u2019s new take on the franchise is pretty good, and I loved the brief stints of CGI that were obvious, but still pretty sleek in their brevity. Petty\u2019s skills are not in doubt here, as he paces the film well enough and draws out enough characters to root for and dislike. Alexis, be sure to e-mail me and I\u2019ll send you over my phone number, you are a cutey and a half. But I digress, \u201cMimic: Sentinel\u201d is a tolerable and entertaining sequel to an abysmal franchise that rips from \u201cSisters,\u201d shamelessly, but works because of the great direction, and competent pacing. I\u2019ll never see it again, but I\u2019d recommend it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What happens when you have a film franchise that\u2019s lacking in almost everything required of a good film? You use a different approach. The \u201cMimic\u201d series has been nothing but abysmal, and it was only a matter of time before we had a film in the series that tried it from a different perspective. Anyone […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[412,477,617,703,906,922,1087],"class_list":["post-10649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie-reviews","tag-giant-monsters","tag-horror","tag-m","tag-mystery","tag-science-fiction","tag-sequel","tag-thriller"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}