Surprisingly decent direct-to-video third film in the Mimic franchise. The giant humanoid New York City cockroaches are back and put an apartment complex under siege. In the film's favor, Lance Henriksen plays the human baddie, which always helps, the special effects are nicely icky, there's a fun riff on "Rear Window," and best of all there's a surprising amount of character development. And Amanda Plummer even makes an appearance. Nothing great, but better than I expected and better than the second film in the franchise.

Stuck inside his apartment complex, a young cancer survivor who's an avid amateur photographer begins to suspect he's capturing a series of giant bug attacks around the building and tries to get the authorities to believe him before the creatures spread into the city.There wasn't all that much in here that was really all that good. The majority of what works in this is the gradual buildup of the different methods to show the strange activity around the building, with his absolutely fanatical approach to photographing everything making for a rather interesting spin on the material. Though clichéd, it gives the scenes a distinct sense of voyeurism into something they shouldn't be doing, and adds a distinct sense of danger to the situation that is put on fine display with the searching around in his apartment where they believe it's empty and begin searching only to eventually find something else with them. As well, a lot of the fun here is due to the final minutes of the film as the insects are finally let loose and allowed to become the threats they really are. They're involved in two big attacks in that span, both of which are simply fantastic from the assault on the group out in the street during the purchase and the insects appear to spoil it all, while the apartment setting is simply creepy. Without a doubt, the best sequence is the refrigerator attack, where one is trapped inside a refrigerator and the insects repeatedly try to break through the door to get in. What makes it work is that it's completely told all throughout by the point-of-view of them inside, and when the door is closed, it's pitch-black inside only from the light to come crashing in when the door gets pulled open. It lends itself greatly to scares as it's original, inventive and actually suspenseful when the sudden crashes occur. Coupled with the nice gore, these comprise all the film's positives as there isn't that big of problems with this film. The biggest problem is that there's really nothing of real interest for the longest portion of the film. Just about all of the film's time is spent building up the relationship and giving reason for the adults to distrust them. That this is done in such a manner that you're watching the film from his point, and while it does work in that it gives us a great perspective on the film, unfortunately it means it holds back on everything you'll have come to watch this film for, the killer insects. The insects eventually decide to show up, but by they're coming in so late in the movie makes the beginning nearly impossible to sit through. How much you'll actually see of them varies from nothing to just a little. They look pretty cheap and are mainly confined to the shadows. In the other films, the insects represented a threat to humanity and you always felt that there were sufficient numbers of them and they were tough enough to pose a challenge. Here they don't. It's a real disturbing thought that the titular creatures can't even show up inside they're own film until the end. Otherwise, this is at least tolerable.Rated R: Graphic Violence, Graphic Language and graphic attacks on children.

Subtitled "Sentinel" this entirely forgettable, needless, and stultifying sequel is a complete bore, which copies "Rear Window" of all things, telling its insipid story of more mimicking insects causing havoc in a neighborhood, where a sickly young man(survivor of the original insect plague) tries to convince others that they are not extinct. Lance Henriksen(veteran and talented character actor, best known for his work as profiler Frank Black from TV series "Millennium") guest stars in a small role near the end, but is wasted in this nonsense(quite literally), and film has zero appeal at all. A waste of time.

Man, this movie sucked sh!t through a straw. First, one has to overcome about more than an hour of nonsensical voyeurism, than - out of the blue - some unrecognizable roaches show up from out of the blue and than, klabbam!, there the pitiful apocalypse: the monsters die and the good guy, his sister and his - to be - lover are miraculously saved and all is well again.I wonder what the producers were thinking. The first two Mimics I liked a lot. For the disgusting effects and the, more or less, tension throughout the pictures, but this third was a bunch of crap. It was actually rather sad, on the filmer's account, to focus on the breasts of Rosy to create some kind of, whatever, image: an American teenage girl, smoking dope once in a while, looking good and showing off her bra. Well, one good thing; she didn't die.This movie made no sense. Whatsoever. I'm sorry I watched it.Dikke Jules (Fat Jules)