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eXistenZ

- Play it. Live it. Kill for it.

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.

Release Date : 1999-04-14

Language :English

Adult : false

Status : Released

Production Company : Alliance AtlantisSerendipity Point FilmsNatural Nylon Entertainment

Production Country : CanadaUnited Kingdom

Alternative Titles :

Cast

Character Name : Allegra Geller

Original Name : Jennifer Jason Leigh

Gender : Female

Character Name : Ted Pikul

Original Name : Jude Law

Gender : Male

Character Name : Kiri Vinokur

Original Name : Ian Holm

Gender : Male

Character Name : Gas

Original Name : Willem Dafoe

Gender : Male

Character Name : Yevgeny Nourish

Original Name : Don McKellar

Gender : Male

Character Name : Hugo Carlaw

Original Name : Callum Keith Rennie

Gender : Male

Character Name : Seminar Leader

Original Name : Christopher Eccleston

Gender : Male

Character Name : Merle

Original Name : Sarah Polley

Gender : Female

Character Name : D'Arcy Nader

Original Name : Robert A. Silverman

Gender : Male

Character Name : Noel Dichter

Original Name : Kris Lemche

Gender : Male

Character Name : Chinese Waiter

Original Name : Oscar Hsu

Gender : Male

Character Name : Male Assistant

Original Name : Vik Sahay

Gender : Male

Character Name : Female Assistant

Original Name : Kirsten Johnson

Gender : Female

Character Name : Landry

Original Name : James Kirchner

Gender : Male

Character Name : Male Volunteer

Original Name : Balázs Koós

Gender : Male

Character Name : Female Volunteer

Original Name : Stephanie Belding

Gender : Female

Character Name : Trout Farm Worker

Original Name : Gerry Quigley

Gender : Male

Reviews

John Chard

@John Chard

2024-05-16

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

@tmdb81799156

2021-06-23

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.