Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9786305538011 Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC ISBN: 6305538018 Label: Walt Disney Video Manufacturer: Walt Disney Video Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Walt Disney Video Release Date: August 01, 2000 Running Time: 97 minutes Studio: Walt Disney Video Theatrical Release Date: April 23, 1999 Sales Rank: 24786
Amazon.com: 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: - 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 ... 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 ... Read More
Rating: - Strange. Dream Like. Not for everyone.
Ever wake up from a vivid dream and wished that you could make it into a movie? If you're David Cronenberg, you don't have to wish, and the result is Existenz, an ethereal, strangely sensual odyssey into a world ... Read More
Rating: - eXistenZ
At first sight, the pod looks horrible and squeashy. At the end of the show, I am left baffled by the character asking whether they are still in the game or not. That's the general feeling of this movie. One just ... Read More
Rating: - Confusing title
Please note that this movie has nothing to do with those pills you see advertised on late night TV. :(
- eXinstenZ
- Existenz - Imaginative, Spooky, Thought Provoking 
- eXistenZ
- Confusing title