Jennifer Jason Leigh

Jude Law

Ian Holm

Willem Dafoe

Don McKellar

Callum Keith Rennie

Christopher Eccleston

Sarah Polley

Robert A. Silverman

Kris Lemche

Oscar Hsu

Vik Sahay

Kirsten Johnson

James Kirchner

Balázs Koós

Stephanie Belding

Gerry Quigley

David Cronenberg

András Hámori

Robert Lantos

Howard Shore

Peter Suschitzky

Ronald Sanders

Carol Spier

Tamara Deverell

Elinor Rose Galbraith

Denise Cronenberg

Deirdre Bowen

Réjean Goderre

Mary-Lou Green-Benvenuti

Micheline Trépanier

Shonagh Jabour

Dusty Reeves

Joe Curtin

Jim Peters

J. Tracy Budd

Paul Renaut

John Bannister

Janet Cormack

Carole Lord

Bradley McInnis

Doug Rennie

Mila Rolicz

John Laing

Mark Gingras

Goro Koyama

Andy Malcolm

Nick Watson

Tom Bjelic

Paul Shikata

Graham Daniel

Ray Merrin

David Evans

James Isaac

Alison Reid

Ava Gerlitz

David Moxness

Brenda Gilles

Dan Evans Farkas

Suzana Peric

Don Retzer

Dug Rotstein

John Nelles

Prudence Emery

Debra Beers

Damon Bryant

Bradley Adams

Sandra Tucker

Michael MacDonald

Brandon Cronenberg

Wayne Griffin

Christopher Geggie

Action

Thriller

Science Fiction

eXistenZ

Alliance Atlantis

Serendipity Point Films

Natural Nylon Entertainment

Canada

United Kingdom

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

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.

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