It’s a disturbing, disorienting sensation -- puzzles within puzzles, games within games -- that continues right up to the last shot.
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08/07/08
eXistenZ (1999)
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Reviews Counted:61
Fresh:44
Rotten:17
Average Rating:6.7/10
Consensus: Gooey, slimy, grotesque fun.
Runtime: 1 hr 37 mins
Genre: Science-Fiction/Fantasy
Synopsis: A renowned international virtual reality game designer (Jennifer Jason Leigh), creator of a new interactive game called eXistenZ, becomes the target of an assassination plot by a group of religious... [More]
Starring: Jennifer Jason Leigh, Jude Law, Willem Dafoe, Ian Holm
Director: David Cronenberg
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Reviews for eXistenZ
Experienced gamers should find much to savor through the films unique assessments on the nature of reality.
10/25/07
[Cronenberg is] a laughing existentialist here, a philosopher who sees the comedy in disorientation.
07/30/07
I just don't happen to like puzzle films of any kind, but I must credit Mr. Cronenberg with more intellectual depth than most of his fellow pessimistic movie pranksters.
04/27/07
Top CriticDark, delirious fun.
01/26/06
No review available.
12/06/05
Top CriticNo review available.
12/06/05
Top CriticIt's good art direction in search of an idea.
07/21/05
Top CriticBrave moviegoers and fans of writer-director David Cronenberg will find funny dialogue and grotesquely engrossing scenes in his latest sci-fi horror tale.
07/02/04
Fans may find certain similarities between eXistenZ and Videodrome bothersome, but both films are the real thing.
10/23/03
No review available.
05/14/03
An evolution for the filmmaker that will reach maturity in the quiet, devastatingly economical eloquence of Spider.
03/09/03
No review available.
12/08/02
Top CriticNo review available.
12/08/02
Top Critic
a genuinely jolting yarn... Cronenberg eventually succeeds in making the audience feel as disoriented as Allegra...
06/23/02
Cronenberg's commentary here, though grotesque, belies a certain intelligence.
06/05/02
The premise is solid, the script is clever and well-thought-out, and the movie is consistently engaging...
04/03/02
Bringing a light touch to the grave issues of mortality, illusion, identity, and technology that have obsessed him throughout his career, Cronenberg turns them into a diverting, disorienting, ultimately inconsequential hand of solitaire.
03/24/02
No review available.
03/19/02
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