eXistenZ [Region 2] | ![eXistenZ [Region 2]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51KhkArYrNL._SL500_.jpg)
| Director: David Cronenberg
Actors: Jude Law, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Ian Holm, Willem Dafoe, Don McKellar
Category: DVD
Buy Used: $27.06
as of 3/22/2010 02:19 EDT details
Seller: valleycd
Rating:  247 reviews
Sales Rank: 289442
Format: PAL
Languages: German (Original Language), English (Original Language), German (Subtitled)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 2
Aspect Ratio: 1.77:1
Running Time: 97 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: 500073
EAN: 4006680018317
ASIN: B00004TLK1
Theatrical Release Date: April 23, 1999
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
| |
| Similar Items:
| |
| Editorial Reviews:
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
|
| Customer Reviews:
Showing reviews 1-5 of 247
 "Are we still in the game?" February 26, 2010
W. Buckner (Los Angeles, CA)
Prophetically preposterous, this movie blurs the line between reality and virtual reality so effectively that I think the characters are still not sure what the hell happened.
At a time when we are merely a few decades away from making the sort of virtual reality game that is indistinguishable from the 'real' world, this movie is amazing at portraying the horrifying yet disturbingly enticing scenario of people getting lost in a kind of unreal game world, that is gorey, gooey, violent and most importantly, insanely fun!
Much like The Matrix and Dark City, this movie shows a world that is a technological manifestation, unlike our own world (which may or may not be a technological manifestation!) The difference between these films, however, is the plausibility factor. Where as The Matrix and Dark City present interesting but clearly fictional scenarios (Post apocalyptic world controlled by machines that breed humans and control their minds in the Matrix, and Aliens performing experiments on humans in Dark City) eXistenZ presents a virtual reality 'horror' (or paradise, perhaps) entirely of our own making, that is not only possible but LIKELY in the coming century.
Don't miss this one! 5/5 stars.
 One of my all time favorites January 8, 2010
Karen
This is one of my favorites of all time.
I went through a phase in 2009 of buying some of the most memorable and favorite movies I have ever seen.
And this was one of them. After having not seen it for years, seeing it again after years did not disappoint.
It is like a wonderful dream sequence and leaves you in suspense right to the very end.
 Cronenberg after Dead Ringers? November 9, 2009
J. Stotts
All you need to see from Cronenberg is his films through the film Dead Ringers. He created a unique genre of horror films, many of which remain a masterpiece to this day(The Fly), (Dead Zone), however, all of his work after the 80's, just like John Carpenter, seems very uninspired. This film is not horrible, its just boring and predictable.
Highly underrated David Cronenberg movie! July 2, 2009
John Lindsey (Socorro, New Mexico USA.)
In the future, a special technological and biological achievement has been created called "eXistenZ" which is an organic living cybernetic thing that taps people into a virtual reality video game universe that makes them escape from reality. An inventor woman named Allegra (Jennifer Jason Leigh) who created ExistenZ has been targeted for assassination but lucky for her, a security guard named Ted (Jude Law) saves her and must try everything in his power to protect her. However the two must play the game of ExistenZ as they are in a special artificially created world that feels real soon becomes a dangerous game of life and death.
Underrated futuristic Sci-fi/horror/action thriller from famed Canadian director David Cronenberg ("Scanners", "The Fly", "Videodrome" and "History of Violence"). The film co-stars Ian Holm, William Dafoe, and Sarah Polly as it offers an interesting yet smart storyline with bizarreness and of course some neat special effects. It's a gory yet action packed thrill-ride that came out during the same time as "Matrix" in 1999 yet it's almost as good as that movie but it's more of a long awaited semi follow-up to his masterpiece "Videodrome" in the traditional sense. Howard Shore who is also collabrated on Shore's films (Except "Dead Zone") does a fine score in this movie and there's good performances with ideas that make this one of David Cronenberg's most overlooked movies that has gained cult status.
This DVD has only one extra and it's the trailer but that's ok it's still great as it is.
Also recommended: "Tron", "Videodrome", "Scanners", "Blade Runner", "Akira", "Total Recall", "The Running Man", "Vanilla Sky", "V For Vendetta", "Minority Report", "The Fly (1986)", "The Matrix Trilogy", "The Animatrix", "Ghost in The Shell 1 & 2", "Children of Men".
 Awful Offal March 26, 2009
Michael Toler (Chicago, Il United States)
1 out of 9 found this review helpful
This movie is aimed at juveniles who want to scream "EWWW!" at every other scene.
Whole movie goes like this: Guy takes a mutant frog, cuts it open, plays with its guts. They do some version of this over and over, ad nauseam, through the entire movie.
I got suckered into buying it because of the glowing reviews and promise of a twist ending. The "twist ending" was exactly what you would expect from a movie about being inside a video game.
Showing reviews 1-5 of 247
|
|
|
