{"id":451,"date":"2007-01-07T15:15:52","date_gmt":"2007-01-07T22:15:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toxicshock.tv\/news\/2007\/01\/07\/existenz-movie-review\/"},"modified":"2007-01-07T15:15:52","modified_gmt":"2007-01-07T22:15:52","slug":"existenz-movie-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/2007\/01\/07\/existenz-movie-review\/","title":{"rendered":"eXistenZ &#8211; Movie Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.toxicshock.tv\/moviereview\/happyfishsmall.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Director: David Cronenberg<\/p>\n<p>Cast: Jude Law, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Ian Holm, Willem Dafoe<\/p>\n<p>Original Release Date: 1999<\/p>\n<p>Scores: Technical: 80, Story: 90, Acting: 85, Overall Score: 88<\/p>\n<p>Boy oh boy, films-full-of-thrilling-twists-and-&#8220;Made you look!&#8221;-turns are getting popular these days. Because eXistenZ is full of such mystery and surprise endings, existence and reality itself being questioned!<\/p>\n<p>The bad news?<\/p>\n<p>This is an entertaining sci-fi thriller by the always creative and kooky David Cronenberg (A History of Violence, Spider, The Dead Zone, and more).<br \/>\nThe plot is interesting and delivered rather well, though the special effects aren&#8217;t anything ground-breaking, they still look alright for 1999. The basic story is basically, Allegra Geller (Played by Jennifer Jason Leigh) makes a game in the future (quite an amazing virtual reality game dubbed &#8220;eXistenZ&#8221;) where the very game taps into the minds of the players, delivering them into a virtual world of madness, and the film begins with her presenting it to a focus\/testing group. Among them is Jude Law&#8217;s character, and a number of people possibly looking to kill Geller. They hook into the game, shit happens, and the line between reality blurs over and over with twists and turns.<\/p>\n<p>It may receive The Matrix-comparisons, but like many films that receive The Matrix comparisons, such as Equilibrium, they&#8217;re quite unfounded. The ideas of the Wachowski were hardly completely original, and eXistenZ came out before The Matrix, actually.<br \/>\nIn fact I shouldn&#8217;t even have mentioned The Matrix, eXistenZ is utterly different and one shouldn&#8217;t been thinking of The Matrix while contemplating eXistenZ. Heheh. Frankly it was an entertaining film with nice performances by Leigh, Law, Ian Holm, Willem Dafoe, and more&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The movie just takes many twists and turns that I certainly won&#8217;t get into since I don&#8217;t want to give anything away.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s just say it&#8217;s quite an entertaining film with an ending that&#8217;ll leave you scratching your chin and smiling.<\/p>\n<p>While it has its flaws, it&#8217;s certainly an entertaining film and I recommend giving it a quick rent. Delivers great twists and turns. Definitely a wild Cronenberg flick.<br \/>\n<a title=\"View product details at Amazon\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html%3FASIN=B00000K31V%26tag=toxicshocktv-20%26lcode=xm2%26cID=2025%26ccmID=165953%26location=\/o\/ASIN\/B00000K31V%253FSubscriptionId=1Q9MAXNNPNMX5XRFD8G2\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"eXistenZ\" src=\"http:\/\/ec1.images-amazon.com\/images\/P\/B00000K31V.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_V1069300646_.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>-Review by Sanbud Tehrani<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Director: David Cronenberg Cast: Jude Law, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Ian Holm, Willem Dafoe Original Release Date: 1999 Scores: Technical: 80, Story: 90, Acting: 85, Overall Score: 88 Boy oh boy, films-full-of-thrilling-twists-and-&#8220;Made you look!&#8221;-turns are getting popular these days. Because eXistenZ is full of such mystery and surprise endings, existence and reality itself being questioned! 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