TallGuyCM
17Jun12
For sure. I just watched it for the first time, and I was thinking 'Inception' the entire time, haha.
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Keldon
22May13
14 years later I can say this hasn't aged particularly well. Cheesy (in a bad way) with Jude Law giving the worst performance I've seen in a long time and some of the dialogue is cringeworthy. The theme also was too sensational for me, reminding me more of the recent Katie Couric exposé on video game addiction/violence rather than anything with serious merit. Meh.
Federico Di Folco
25Mar13
Un viaggio allucinante,ipnotico ed impressionante,in puro stile Cronenberg. Un film che si basa su un affascinante dualismo di fondo,con una tecnologia sempre più estrema per soddisfare una clientela sempre più esigente,e finisce per creare una profonda riflessione sul libero arbitrio umano.Scene grandiose(la pistola al ristorante),un grande montaggio e una fotografia che rende al meglio i due mondi.Finale cult.4*
Lisandro
2Mar13
While this may have all the signature Cronenberg elements (and even brings some new and relevant ideas to the table), it's held down by some really awful acting (probably the worst acting I've ever seen from Jude Law) and an equally poor script. Granted, there's always been a certain level of goofiness in his earlier works, but here it's just a bit too much...
micah van hove
20Nov12
Even though it feels like a "lesser" work, there's so much to take away from this. Goofy at times, but Cronenberg's directness of vision & mastery of cinema still shines through.
Zachary George Najarian-Najafi
12Nov12
This is to the 90s what Videodrome was to the 80s; a clever satire about the dangers of playing too many videogames. The real treat here is Cronenberg's visual imagination, there are so many cool designs and ideas going on here, and while similar films explored themes of reality around this era, none did so as successfully as this one. My favorite scene: the Chinese Restaurant.
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Rod Rejante
31Aug12
Signature Cronenberg material. This film brings back a lot of great memories. 5/5
Harry Rossi
17Jul12
Wow. This was incredible. One of my new favorite Cronenbergs. Honestly the more I see by him the more he becomes one of my absolute favorite filmmakers. The plot and themes of this film are just amazing and loved all the disgusting body-horror-ish elements in the game pod designs. People often compare this to The Matrix and I have to admit it's about 100 times more original, more interesting and just better made.
Antonius-Blovk
16Jun12
"You have to play the game to find out why you're playing the game." Not one of cronenberg's best but it has a lot of great moments. Definitely a must-see if you like his other movies.
Matthew Martens
19Apr12
My favorite elements of eXistenZ -- the last (for now?) and least of a particular kind of Cronenberg film, one in which the erotics of embodiment and the anxieties of identity and epistemology are observed through a prism of biomechanoid future-shock paranoia (as perfected in Scanners and Videodrome) -- are the NPCs, repeatedly trapped in script-loops, unable to move forward until given the "right" prompt. Demonic.
Classroom Battles
3Feb12
It's probably my least favorite Cronenberg film, but still very worth watching. The similarities with "Inception" are also very funny.
lolo341
25Sep11
this one has absolutely grown on me over time. i flat out hated it the first time i saw it... but i kept thinking about it. several years later i watched it again and even later i watched a third time. i think what drove me away from it the first time is how disquieting it is. but as technology continues to leap frog in ways my generation only dreamed about, i get it now.
ghsdtgsdhgsdasghd
1Sep11
Realidades artificiais dentro de realidades artificiais. Chega-se a um ponto em que é impossível distinguir o verdadeiro do fictício. Tudo através de um videojogo. Mais tarde apareceria um conceito similar, no Matrix.
Will C
12Jun11
A little TOO reminiscent of Cronenberg's earlier film Videodrome for the most part, but still an effective commentary on modern culture's fascination/obsession with player character games and how far people will go for a realistic experience.
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Charles Ziegler-Hartmann
12Jul11
I feel Videodrome was about television and the videotape generation. eXistenZ is about video games and the then burgeoning gamer generation. He should do a film on the internet and its many reality-bending possibilities.
Caden Cotard
28Mar11
Call it The Matrix Preloaded or Inception: The Beginning, just call it original. Cronenberg makes a movie just as brilliant and innovative as the above two, possibly more. And just when you think he's in over his head, he's a got a few more tricks up his sleeve.
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Sequelcast
5Jan11
If you have ever played a MMO like World of Warcraft, Everquest, or Ultima Online, you will get more about what this movie's take on an interactive alternate reality experience is.
Fabio Cristi
4Sep10
I think I had seen it just once when I bought it on DVD ten years ago. Watched it again tonight in high definition. A visionary masterpiece, one of Cronenberg's best. If you work in videogames, it gets even more interesting.
Daniel S.
6Aug10
I really love this film that could be read on so many levels: if you try the sexual level for instance, EXISTENZ quickly becomes a fairly good porno movie. You may also consider it as a sociologic study about the AIDS years, the computer viruses being as dangerous as our little natural enemies. Now you may also wonder whether it is perfectly safe to entrust so much money to someone obsessed by the inner beauty of our entrails. Highly recommended, though.
