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Summary: eXistenZZZZZZZZZZZ
Review: Has to be, no it is, the worst DVD I bought so far. I fell asleep twice due to the poor acting and lack of interesting screenplay. I don't understand how The San Francisco Chronicle claims this movie "Makes The Matrix Look Like Child's Play." The Matrix sets a standard for all other movies to strive for. eXistenZ is highly recommended to cure insomnia.
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Summary: There is nothing wrong with your television...
Review: Hey, that was a pretty cool episode of "The Outer Limits" -Oh wait, eXistenZ was a movie? Aren't movies supposed to have special effects, bigger budgets and better acting? My bad. eXistenZ is pretty thought provoking, but you are SO much better off watching "Strange Days" instead.
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Summary: The Matrix with loads of gore and different story
Review: I actually saw this movie 2 days after I saw The Matrix, it's different, when the Matrix is a fast pased as Formula 1 racing, Existenz is as unpredictable as driving a rally car. The story is superb, the level of detail is immense and Cronenburg shows that he knows how to make people throw up and have them keep looking. Couldn't wait until I had it on DVD, but finally I got it, I had to have it.
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Summary: The thinking person's Matrix
Review: Yet another virtual-reality film, but a very different one from the Matrix, and perhaps Cronenberg's most satisfying film. Full of the director's signature polymorphous perversity, it's not for the sqeamish or for those who demand standard Hollywood pacing, explication or cinematography. This film takes risks and will be hated by some, but others will find it a fascinating exploraton of ancient philosophical issues reified by modern technology.
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Summary: The Matrix Childsplay?
Review: What were those reviewers thinking when they said that? The whole movie is based on a completely different story. And this pod thing you plug into your back? It seemded like it was a plasic bag filled with water with a little string attached. Jennifer Jason Leigh should take some more acting lessons cause well.. she isn't that convincing..
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Summary: It's so-so
Review: I had high expectation about eXistenZ based on some critical reviews. The movie is simply average. The bizarre start of the movie already undermines any pretention of reality. The weird gun idea is a stale device from countless alternate-universe sci-fi stories. Used in virtual-reality story, it reinforces the early suspicion that something is not quite right about reality. The audience is then shown a bunch of strange virtual reality jumps that make no sense. The surprises were telegraphed way earlier in the movie. So after a little while, there is little to care about, leaving us time to marvel the last gunfight scene's cheesiness (a smaller scale confrontation would likely work better.) The worst thing about this movie, however, is the lack of memorable characters. It's trouble when the only thing you remember clearly after seeing the movie is that strange rubbery thing with nipples. At the very least The Matrix gives us Trinity to dream about :-).
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Summary: Canadian Release
Review: The Canadian Special Edition DVD has three separate commentary tracks, a behind the scenes look at DC'S set designer, and the trailers. Way better then the North American release.
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Summary: Needs more soul
Review: I have been a Cronenberg fan and worshipped every film he has put on the screen. Unfortunately, Existenz belongs alondside Rabid and M Butterfly. That is not to say that even the lesser works of Cronenberg arent 100 times more interesting than the standard fare movie studios throw at us, but next to his other films, Existenz feels a little dull. Law and Liegh are two actors that I like and love, respectively, but here they are flat. I cant remember Liegh being this robotic since Flesh and Bone, and Law gives the worst male lead preformance since that god-awful guy who was in Scanners. Cronenberg must have gotten too used to actors like James Spader, Holly Hunter, and Jeremy Irons, who seem, and probably are, effortlessly easy actors, who understand Cronenberg (hey,not everyone can). Law and Liegh need a little prod. In a movie so keen on the spinal column, they dont seem to have any electricity in thiers. Perhaps a little of that blankness, that lack of soul, and bitter shallow from Crash bled through into this. In Crash it made sense, but in Existenz, the labored pacing and empty dialouge delivery go nowhere. What we need are a few thrills, a punch in the face, that dont see coming. Existenz is a roller coaster that is straight and flat. god help me though, I'll take Cronenberg, in any shape or form, over that boring, trite, predictable, crud that was the Matrix.
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Summary: Sleeper
Review: At first I thought I hated this movie but later realized that among the dozen or so movies I had seen that week this was the only one I remembered clearly later. It has a nightmarish quality sort of like Naked Lunch which Cronenberg also directed. Not completely satisfying, but you won't soon forget it...
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Summary: complex and entertaining
Review: I've always been one to enjoy strange, thought-provoking movies, and I really enjoyed this one. The people who say only Cronenberg fans will truly like eXistenZ are wrong, as I have never seen any of his other movies (though now I definitely plan to). Jennifer Jason Leigh is good as usual, and Jude Law does just as well. This movie may repel people who don't enjoy sci-fi or deep movies, but if you want something to make you think as well as entertain, give eXistenZ a try. I also recommend that you check out Howard Shore's beautiful, haunting score.
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