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 "eXistenZ" is a glimpse of what Cronenberg might have done for the video game industry if they recruited him. The movie is mostly a bizarre role-playing adventure game where everyone seems to be camouflaging their motives, a place where assassins can literally build guns out of animal skeletons and use teeth as bullets! That is only a small sample from Cronenberg's bag of exotic, grotesque items. Some others are an extra orifice in Jennifer Jason Leigh's spine, animal organs used as video game units, and umbilical cords made into plug-in wires. Because of all the deception and the weird biotechnology, it is not a particularly easy movie to follow, but there are enough nasty surprises to make it worthwhile. "eXistenZ" is sometimes mentioned along with "The Matrix", but they are only related by the virtual reality setting. Aside from that, these two are very different. "The Matrix" is much more of a mainstream action film than "eXistenZ" is, and the former ends on a happy note while the latter shocks you with a very wicked twist (I won't give it away, but it would suffice to say that the whole theme of camouflaged motives persists right to the very end). The bottom line: "eXistenZ" is a decent, dark adventure, recommended if you want to see a weird, paranoid sci-fi/horror movie (although it fits more into the sci-fi genre than anything else, there are some scenes that should satisfy the gore-hounds). |
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