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Summary: Low budget?
Review: The story had good potential, but seemed way too low budget -- the pods had a very unsophisticated outer shell, etc. Also, the acting, or rather overacting, left something to be desired. The ending was a complete disappointment.
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Summary: Are we still playing?
Review: This 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!This movie was overshadowed by another movie called The Matrix, but I liked this one a little more, its mystery plot drove it to great links. While some of the questions are unawnsered (like why the hell is eXistenZ littered with werid looking amphibains that get mangled up) at the end they are dissmisable. Good story, acting, and direction keeps you guessing all the way till the end and even when you look back to think about it.
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Summary: If you can only see one movie this year...
Review: ...then this one need not be it. Some nice ideas come together in a film that ultimately has too many twists for any of them to be surprising or exciting. Apparent themes of reality vs virtual reality are explored but in a relatively meaningless and usually contradictory way. It's not a bad film per-se. It's just not a good film either. It tries to do more than it delivers. If you can only see one movie this year, this one isn't it. But for the rest of us, if you get an opportunity to see it, by all means do.
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Summary: Excellence of the surreal genre
Review: This movie was positively amazing. Much in the tradition of 13th Floor and Dark City the movie challenges reality leaving you to question whether or not you are entirely comfortable with what you consider it to be. Very thought provoking with positively amazing imagery and effects throughout the movie. A must see for everyone.
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Summary: Very different. And funky.
Review: This film is wonderfully non-exploitative. It delves very lightly into the ideas behind the gaming world...and where it could go, and how it could affect our future. The game seems to surround the question of whether such realistic games could distort our reality. The film is clever in the way it pursues this initially, but falters a lot. It definitely has interesting situations...and a few twisted images. Cronenberg doesn't leave you with much to think about, just a few ooh's and ahh's. Jennifer Jason Leigh doesn't give much to the film. She's as whiny and annoying as ever with the exception of the lines "Did I win?", "Did I win?". That was endearing. It's a different sort of film which holds your attention, so for that alone it's worth seeing. It's light and Jude Law is worth watching without doubt. No pomp.
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Summary: Existenz is paused!!!
Review: My favourite line from the film, and you will feel that your existence has been paused this film will engage you so much. The idea of plugging yourself into your playstation, and interacting with bizarre characters is put across in such a way as to fascinate and disgust. Jude Law has a gun in the film which shoots human teeth, gross. The same cannot be said of Mr Law, who is by no means gross! You have to expect this kind of lunacy from Cronenberg, but this suprises offered in this amazing film will have you on the edge of your seat. Not for the squeemish
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Summary: I was expecting more...
Review: This movie appeared to be very inventive, like it was going somewhere. I kept hoping something would happen...but it never did. I just...I don't know. There was too much lakcing in this movie. Jude Law was really good in this movie...or so I thought. But Leigh wasn't all that great. This movie just didn't do it for me. I was unimpressed. Especially with the end.
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Summary: A fun movie
Review: The art of making cool movies has been forgotten. Here is one from Croneberg: a nifty story with a layered plot that you have to watch carefully and more than once. This movie presents a video game designer as an artiste and players as her loyal followers in a world that values facscimiles over reality. They are just more fun and liberating. The story manages to have us questioning reality and the idea of free will. The acting is pleasantly peculiar and un-American. The art design is nauseously original. The DVD is very good, giving us director and scpecial effects producer commentary as well as a look at the art used in the film.
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Summary: If you have ever played an FMV adventure, you'll get it.
Review: I have seen several reviews of eXistenZ that all seem to labour on the same point, the acting and speech at times are a little 2D. But that is the exact point, all FMV adventure games are like that. All I can suggest is you invest in a PC, get one or two games eg Gabriel Knight - Beast Within or any of the Tex Murphy series, play them through, and then watch this film again, I think he got it just right.
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Summary: typical screw-job ending.
Review: the first part of the movie is actually okay, but the middle and ending really lack. the middle of the movie your having a hard time staying awake because its such a snooze, the ending of the movie makes you wish you wouldnt of even seen it in the first place unless you like those endings that just leave you hanging.
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