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eXistenZ (1999)
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Reviews Counted:44
Fresh:32
Rotten:12
Average Rating: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... 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 fanatics. She is forced to go into hiding with a novice security guard (Jude Law) sworn to protect her. However, during the chase the two of them experience a world where the boundaries of fantasy and reality are blurred and nothing is as it seems. A psychosexual mindbender from director David Cronenberg. [More]
Starring: Jennifer Jason Leigh, Jude Law, Willem Dafoe, Ian Holm
Starring: Jennifer Jason Leigh, Jude Law, Willem Dafoe, Ian Holm, Don McKellar, Sarah Polley, Callum Keith Rennie, Christopher Eccleston, Kristopher Lemche
Director: David Cronenberg
Director: David Cronenberg
Screenwriter: David Cronenberg
Producer: David Cronenberg, Andras Hamori, Robert Lantos
Composer: Howard Shore
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Release:
Oct 19, 1999
Reviews for eXistenZ
Fans may find certain similarities between eXistenZ and Videodrome bothersome, but both films are the real thing.
Brave moviegoers and fans of writer-director David Cronenberg will find funny dialogue and grotesquely engrossing scenes in his latest sci-fi horror tale.
...too clever for its own good. Once you catch on to the gimmick...it isn't half as entertaining.
[Cronenberg is] a laughing existentialist here, a philosopher who sees the comedy in disorientation.
An evolution for the filmmaker that will reach maturity in the quiet, devastatingly economical eloquence of Spider.
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