Weinstein still insisted on having control over the final cut. Producer B.J. Rack later compared making the film to "being a prisoner of [a] war camp", while del Toro stated in 2018: "The only time I have experienced bad behaviour, and it remains one of the worst experiences of my life, was in 1997, when I did Mimic for Miramax. It was a horrible, horrible, horrible experience". Release Director's cut Del Toro was not granted final cut privilege, and he did not approve of the film as released. In 2010, del Toro revealed that he had been working on a director's cut of Mimic and said: "It’s not exactly the movie I wanted to do, but it definitely healed a lot of wounds... I am happy with the cut". The director's cut runs for 112 minutes, six minutes longer than the theatrical release. It was released in 2011, initially exclusive to Blu-ray and is now available via various digital services, but has never been widely available on DVD. Reception Box office According to Box Office Mojo, its domestic gross is $25,480,490; it did not beat its budget of $30,000,000. Critical response Mimic received mixed reviews from critics. It currently holds a 65% 'Fresh' rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 43 reviews, with an average score of 6.4 out of 10. The site's critics consensus reads: "Mimic finds director Guillermo del Toro struggling to inject his unique sensibilities into a studio picture – and delivering just enough genre thrills to recommend". Roger Ebert gave the movie 3 1/2 stars saying "Del Toro is a director with a genuine visual sense, with a way of drawing us into his story and evoking the mood with the very look and texture of his shots. He takes the standard ingredients and presents them so effectively that "Mimic" makes the old seem new, fresh and scary". Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "C−" on an A+ to F scale. Short film Mimic was planned as one of three 30-minute short films intended to be shown together. It was expanded into a full-length movie, as was Impostor. The short film Alien Love Triangle remains a 30-minute short film, and has never been released. Sequels Two direct-to-video sequels were made, neither of which involved del Toro. TV series In , a television adaptation/reboot was announced to be in development, with Paul W.