Above all, it is a galactic leap from any other film you’re likely to see this week. Or this month. Perhaps this whole year.
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01/01/00
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
US Box Office: $0
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
Reviews for eXistenZ
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12/06/05
This darkly sexual sci-fi horror variant by Cronenberg makes The Matrix look like child's play.
01/01/00
The typically Cronenbergian preoccupation with organs and bodily fluids is much in evidence, but this is the first time you can imagine the director standing just beyond the frame, smiling as he goes for the gross-out.
01/01/00
eXistenZ is a good ride. But eat before you come. The meals on display here are for presentation only.
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It's a pleasure to find the brooding Cronenberg turning out a trifle, even if it's a dark trifle.
01/01/00
eXistenZ, the newest film under Cronenberg's name, is one of the more calm and least-daring of his movies. It's also one of the best.
01/01/00
I was hooked from the very beginning all the way to its abrupt and slightly disturbing ending.
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It is a movie that exists in almost a dreamlike state, eminently watchable but too bizarre to really involve its audience personally. That is not a criticism, but only a statement.
01/01/00
A s-fi thriller that challenges us to ponder the propensity we all have for surrendering ourselves to cheap thrills as a substitute for the boredom of reality.
03/04/02
Dark, delirious fun.
01/26/06
Jennifer Jason Leigh, who in the past loved to play the absolute cynic with curled lip and gutteral voice, has never looked and sounded sexier.
01/01/00
eXistenZ feels fresh, even if the impulses behind it weren't wholly original.
01/01/00
Purely as a virtual reality thriller it works well and hard sci-fi fans will be glad at having seen it.
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a genuinely jolting yarn... Cronenberg eventually succeeds in making the audience feel as disoriented as Allegra...
06/23/02
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