Monday, February 12, 2001
for my screenwriting class we have to watch different genres of movies and write these little plot synopsis'. I'll share my horror movie review with you.Mimic
New York has been stricken with a disease that is killing the city’s children. The carrier of this horrible virus is the common cockroach. An entomologist, Dr. Susan Tyler (played by the Oscar winning Mira Sorvino) is called in to help. She creates a mutated type of bug (the Judas) that will kill off the disease-infested cockroaches. The experiment works and the disease is eradicated. Now she has something really impressive to tell at her next high school reunion instead of that stupid idea that Michelle made up about being the inventors of Post-It notes. But I digress…
Three years have passed. Dr. Tyler has married Jeremy and they try to have a child – unsuccessfully. Two smart-alec kids visit Susan at her lab to sell her bugs and stuff that they collected in the subways. They sell her this bug that turns out to be a baby Judas, but a LOT bigger than it should be. Upon closer investigation of the subway system, she realizes that the Judas bug has mutated and changed into a type of bug that mimics its predator – the human! Now with the help of her husband, an overweight cop and a Gepetto-type shoeshine man, she must destroy the insects before they take over all of New York City, and quite possibly, the world.
Deep inside the bowels of the New York subway system, all the characters get separated. The shoeshine man, in search of his autistic spoon-playing, wire collecting child is killed by a bug while his son watches. That kid’s therapy bill is going to be astronomical. The overweight cop in the ultimate display of self-sacrifice lures the bugs away from others. He is eaten quicker than a Krispy Kreme donut at an Overeater’s Anonymous meeting. Jeremy puts his wife and the kid in this sort of dumb waiter elevator so they can escape to safety. He then locks himself into what appears to be the egg room where there are millions of these Judas bugs just waiting to hatch. He breaks the gas main and makes a spark. KA-BOOM! Meanwhile, Susan and the kid are roaming around a live subway tube. The Alpha Male Judas bug (the one that must die to be sure that they don’t multiply) happens to be wandering around the same tube. It chases Susan as she runs towards a train coming right for her. She jumps out of the way of the train but the bug isn’t as nimble and SPLAT, the bug gets crunched. Humanity has been saved. Later on the surface, we find that Jeremy has eluded death by jumping into a manhole that was filled with water before the explosion. He and Susan, along with the retard make a happy family.
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