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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Binding: DVD DVD Layers: 1 DVD Sides: 1 EAN: 9780788817991 Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC ISBN: 078881799X Label: Dimension Languages: Manufacturer: Dimension MPN: D18326D Number Of Items: 1 Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen Publisher: Dimension Region Code: 1 Release Date: October 19, 1999 Running Time: 97 minutes Studio: Dimension Theatrical Release Date: April 23, 1999 Editorial Review: 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 Description: Exciting stars Jennifer Jason Leigh (DOLORES CLAIBORNE), Jude Law (GATTACA), and Willem Dafoe (SPEED 2, AFFLICTION) challenge the boundaries of reality in this futuristic, critically acclaimed adventure thriller! During the first closed-door demonstration of an amazing new virtual reality game called eXistenZ, the system's brilliant designer, Allegra Geller (Leigh), is violently attacked by a crazed assassin intent on killing her and destroying her creation! Forced to flee into hiding, Allegra enlists a young assistant (Law) to help her in testing the damaged system ... by convincing him to join her inside eXistenZ! The action then explodes as their world's real-life dangers begin to merge with the fantasy of the game! If you're ready to play, it's now your turn to plug into this powerfully entertaining hit! Average Rating:
 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 the game and it's secrets. The thing that is most allusive about winning the game, is that it's not clear what winning means. In fact, it's not even clear what is part of the game and what is not. As they learn more and more about the inside and outside of the game, they come closer to solving ... 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 only the subconscious mind could conjure. A weird little movie with a befittingly weird title, Existenz flew under the radar during the 'Summer of the Matrix'. On the surface, Existenz is little more than a vague narrative of two unlikely companions, played by Law and Leigh, who alternate ... Read More Rating:  - eXistenZAt 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 doesn't know whether the game is still on or off, and if still on, on which dimension and how far advanced the players are in the game. It is an eerie thought that someday, maybe, those gamers out there might just slip into the gaming world and never ever return to the real world. Splendid performances ... Read More Rating:  - Confusing titlePlease note that this movie has nothing to do with those pills you see advertised on late night TV. :( ExtenZe Male Enhancement, 30-Count Box Rating:  - How did you know my name??What a weird, creepy, bit of fun this is! It is reminiscent of "Naked Lunch" (and why not? Cronenberg did THAT one, too!). The game within a game within a game was Excellent! I find it odd that it was a flop at the Box-Office. I first saw "ExistenZ" the year it first came out on VHS, and enjoyed it immensely. Of course, I'm biased, because I'm a HUGE fan of David Cronenberg's works. Where David Lynch uses a feather floating on air, David Cronenberg uses a sledgehammer (of course, AFTER he has given it his trademark "biomechanical" ... Read More |
