Synopsis
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.
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Cast
- Jennifer Jason LeighAllegra Geller
- Jude LawTed Pikul
- Ian HolmKiri Vinokur
- Willem DafoeGas
- Don McKellarYevgeny Nourish
- Callum Keith RennieHugo Carlaw
- Christopher EcclestonSeminar Leader
- Sarah PolleyMerle
- Robert A. SilvermanD'Arcy Nader
- Oscar HsuChinese Waiter
Recommendations
- 90
Film Threat
This is not light-hearted entertainment. Be prepared to think. Uncle Dave will take you someplace new. - 90
L.A. Weekly
eXistenZ gives us Cronenberg at his wittiest, and Leigh at her most vulnerable and fascinating. - 80
Time
Like the virtual game he plays on us, the film is weird, it's addictive, and Lord, it's alive! - 75
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Cronenberg is one of the cinema's true originals, and a trip to his spooky world is always a harrowing, thought-provoking experience. - 70
Salon
Cronenberg, who both wrote and directed, is out to fool you -- to give you just enough information to let you figure out what's going on, and then bluff you out of using it. The movie, in other words, is a game itself. - 60
The New York Times
Its name, the film's title, is pronounced "eggs is tense" and meant to have a whiff of the philosophical, even if its intellectual ambition seems mostly limited to spelling affectations. - 60
Film Threat
Dead-on for Cronenberg fans though the mutant reptile and amphibian factory might be a tad(pole) too much for the squeamish at heart. - 50
ReelViews
Because of the potential of the idea and Cronenberg's reputation as a film maker, it's a real disappointment to watch eXistenZ fall apart the way it does.
