Back in the silly '50s, when the monster movie ruled with a prosthetic iron claw, the catalyst for any given animal mutation was a hefty toxic burst from an atomic bomb test. Flash forward 40 years into a world that's temporarily holstered its nuclear warheads and the monster-making radiation has been replaced with the new scientific bogeyman - - genetic engineering. Otherwise it's business as usual in one of cinema's most enduring, easily most ridiculous genres - and Mimic expresses no intention of challenging such tried-and-tested familiarities.
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