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eXistenZ

    Action
    Thriller
    Science Fiction
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Apr 14, 1999
Rated R

A game designer on the run from assassins must play her latest virtual reality creation with a marketing trainee to determine if the game has been damaged.

Details

  • Directors
  • Revenue$2,856,712
  • Budget
    $15,000,000
  • Vote Average
    6.8
  • Vote Count
    1904
  • Popularity
    20
  • Language
    English
  • Origin Country
    CAFRGB

Cast

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Jennifer Jason Leigh
Allegra Geller
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Jude Law
Ted Pikul
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Ian Holm
Kiri Vinokur
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Willem Dafoe
Gas
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Don McKellar
Yevgeny Nourish
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Callum Keith Rennie
Hugo Carlaw
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Christopher Eccleston
Seminar Leader
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Sarah Polley
Merle
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Robert A. Silverman
D'Arcy Nader
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Oscar Hsu
Chinese Waiter
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Kris Lemche
Noel Dichter
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Vik Sahay
Male Assistant
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Kirsten Johnson
Female Assistant
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James Kirchner
Landry
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Balázs Koós
Male Volunteer
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Stephanie Belding
Female Volunteer
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Gerry Quigley
Trout Farm Worker

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Reviews

(2)
John Chard
80%
Free will is obviously not a big factor in this little world of ours. Hee, yet another David Cronenberg picture that divides opinions, not just among the casual film watchers, but also his most ardent fans. Plot is a little nutty in actuality, as it finds Jennifer Jason Leigh as the world's most high profile games designer. While testing her new virtual reality game out with a focus group, an assassination attempt puts her on the run with an ally of sorts, marketing man Ted Pikul (Jude Law). With the prototype of the new game in their possession, the pair must enter the game's realm to unlock the various puzzles and threats that now confounds and stalks them. With Cronenberg back to writing something solely from his own head, eXistenZ finds the Canadian auteur happy to be back making a truer piece of work for his kinked visions. Unfortunately the advent of such virtual reality fare and various realist themes was well in filmic swing come the time eXistenZ was released, rendering it in some eyes as a band wagon jumper. That's unfair, because it's still a unique film, as Cronenberg blends body horror with visual invention to create a mind warp of gaming possibilities, a thrum thrum of futuristic verve. He gets top performances out of Leigh (great hair as well) and Law, while the narrative is constantly tricky enough to demand the viewer pays attention whilst being prepared to, perhaps, be surprised. Not prime Cronenberg, but still smart and funky, twisty and nutty, scary and oblique. So very much a Cronenberg original, then. 8/10
tmdb81799156
10%
I'm sorry but this low budget disaster got zero interest from me. The props were horrid. The story was ridiculous; really, it was just so "stupid". Maybe I should be using bigger words, but this movie was just awful in every way. I rarely give up on a movie; I feel like someone shouldn't give a movie a bad review unless they've seen the entire thing. I've seen the entire thing, finally. It was almost painful to get through. It is just a cheap and dreadful production. The SyFy channel makes better quality garbage than this.