Existenz [IMPORT]
starring: Jude Law, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Ian Holm, Willem Dafoe, Don McKellar
directed by: David Cronenberg
directed by: David Cronenberg
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Director David Cronenberg's eXistenZ is a stew of corporate espionage, virtual reality gaming, and thriller elements, marinated in Cronenberg's favorite Crock-Pot juices of technology, physiology, and sexual metaphor. Jennifer Jason Leigh is game designer Allegra Geller, responsible for the new state-of-the-art eXistenZ game system; along with PR newbie Ted Pikul (Jude Law), they take the beta version of the game for a test drive and are immersed in a dangerous alternate reality. The game isn't quite like PlayStation, though; it's a latexy pod made from the guts of mutant amphibians and plugs via an umbilical cord directly into the user's spinal column (through a BioPort). It powers up through the player's own nervous system and taps into the subconscious; with several players it networks their brains together. Geller and Pikul's adventures in the game reality uncover more espionage and an antigaming, proreality insurrection. The game world makes it increasingly difficult to discern between reality and the game, either through the game's perspective or the human's. More accessible than Crash, eXistenZ is a complicated sci-fi opus, often confusing, and with an ending that leaves itself wide open for a sequel. Fans of Cronenberg's work will recognize his recurring themes and will eat this up. Others will find its shallow characterizations and near-incomprehensible plot twists a little tedious. --Jerry Renshaw
Director David Cronenberg's eXistenZ is a stew of corporate espionage, virtual reality gaming, and thriller elements, marinated in Cronenberg's favorite Crock-Pot juices of technology, physiology, and sexual metaphor. Jennifer Jason Leigh is game designer Allegra Geller, responsible for the new state-of-the-art eXistenZ game system; along with PR newbie Ted Pikul (Jude Law), they take the beta version of the game for a test drive and are immersed in a dangerous alternate reality. The game isn't quite like PlayStation, though; it's a latexy pod made from the guts of mutant amphibians and plugs via an umbilical cord directly into the user's spinal column (through a BioPort). It powers up through the player's own nervous system and taps into the subconscious; with several players it networks their brains together. Geller and Pikul's adventures in the game reality uncover more espionage and an antigaming, proreality insurrection. The game world makes it increasingly difficult to discern between reality and the game, either through the game's perspective or the human's. More accessible than Crash, eXistenZ is a complicated sci-fi opus, often confusing, and with an ending that leaves itself wide open for a sequel. Fans of Cronenberg's work will recognize his recurring themes and will eat this up. Others will find its shallow characterizations and near-incomprehensible plot twists a little tedious. --Jerry Renshaw
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Rating: 
- Highly underrated David Cronenberg movie!
In the future, a special technological and biological achievement has been created called "eXistenZ" which is an organic living cybernetic thing that taps people into a virtual reality video game universe that makes them escape from reality. An inventor woman named Allegra (Jennifer Jason Leigh) who created ExistenZ has been targeted for assassination but lucky for her, a security guard named Ted (Jude Law) saves her and must try everything in his power to protect her. However the two must ... Read More
Rating: 
- Awful Offal
This movie is aimed at juveniles who want to scream "EWWW!" at every other scene.
Whole movie goes like this: Guy takes a mutant frog, cuts it open, plays with its guts.They do some version of this over and over, ad nauseam, through the entire movie.
I got suckered into buying it because of the glowing reviews and promise of a twist ending.The "twist ending" was exactly what you would expect from a movie about being inside a video game.
Rating: 
- An experiment that somehow made it to film and now relegated toCinemax at 5:00 on a Monday and this DVD.
Watch it on Cinemax at 5:00 AM on a Monday morning or buy this DVD if you want to watch this strange digest of other film concepts.
The cast seems like the A-List of 1999 who happened to be in between other studio projects and dropped in on this film to just hang out and do a movie.
First year acting school students are given improvisational assignments to convince the audience an inert object like a coffee mug or the recalcitrant professors ball point pen are a meaningful ... Read More
Rating: - eXinstenZ
[Existenz [IMPORT]Forget "The Matrix". Now, really forget it. It's a different movie. "eXistenZ" lives in a world, or really nested realities, all its own. Cronenberg is a master of mixing up reality with non-reality and physical with non-physical. I think one of the beauties of "eXistenZ" is the ugliness of the Virtual Reality world created by Geller's (Jennifer Jason-Leigh) half-mutant amphibian/half plastic game pod. The icky porting into it with an umbilical cord into the spinal column is so Cronenberg. ... Read More
Rating: 
- Existenz - Imaginative, Spooky, Thought Provoking
eXistenZ is a very interesting movie that follows the heroes as they try to succeed in the ultimate game of virtual reality.Jude Law and Jennifer Jason Leigh must go through a series of challenges to unlock the game and it's secrets.The thing that is most allusive about winning the game, is that it's not clear what winning means.In fact, it's not even clear what is part of the game and what is not.As they learn more and more about the inside and outside of the game, they come closer to solving the mystery ... Read More
- Highly underrated David Cronenberg movie!In the future, a special technological and biological achievement has been created called "eXistenZ" which is an organic living cybernetic thing that taps people into a virtual reality video game universe that makes them escape from reality. An inventor woman named Allegra (Jennifer Jason Leigh) who created ExistenZ has been targeted for assassination but lucky for her, a security guard named Ted (Jude Law) saves her and must try everything in his power to protect her. However the two must ... Read More
- Awful OffalThis movie is aimed at juveniles who want to scream "EWWW!" at every other scene.
Whole movie goes like this: Guy takes a mutant frog, cuts it open, plays with its guts.They do some version of this over and over, ad nauseam, through the entire movie.
I got suckered into buying it because of the glowing reviews and promise of a twist ending.The "twist ending" was exactly what you would expect from a movie about being inside a video game.
- An experiment that somehow made it to film and now relegated toCinemax at 5:00 on a Monday and this DVD.Watch it on Cinemax at 5:00 AM on a Monday morning or buy this DVD if you want to watch this strange digest of other film concepts.
The cast seems like the A-List of 1999 who happened to be in between other studio projects and dropped in on this film to just hang out and do a movie.
First year acting school students are given improvisational assignments to convince the audience an inert object like a coffee mug or the recalcitrant professors ball point pen are a meaningful ... Read More
- eXinstenZ[Existenz [IMPORT]Forget "The Matrix". Now, really forget it. It's a different movie. "eXistenZ" lives in a world, or really nested realities, all its own. Cronenberg is a master of mixing up reality with non-reality and physical with non-physical. I think one of the beauties of "eXistenZ" is the ugliness of the Virtual Reality world created by Geller's (Jennifer Jason-Leigh) half-mutant amphibian/half plastic game pod. The icky porting into it with an umbilical cord into the spinal column is so Cronenberg. ... Read More
- Existenz - Imaginative, Spooky, Thought Provoking eXistenZ is a very interesting movie that follows the heroes as they try to succeed in the ultimate game of virtual reality.Jude Law and Jennifer Jason Leigh must go through a series of challenges to unlock the game and it's secrets.The thing that is most allusive about winning the game, is that it's not clear what winning means.In fact, it's not even clear what is part of the game and what is not.As they learn more and more about the inside and outside of the game, they come closer to solving the mystery ... Read More
