Existenz

1999 • 97 minutes

About this movie

Exciting 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!

Ratings and reviews

Saw this on the youtube channel, Looper, which I get alot of good hidden gems from. This came up as underrated scifi because it was released within a few weeks of the Matrix. So this was painful to get through. It was pretty awful and I watch movies all the time. I'd rank this as a C flick, since its worse than a B movie.

hilarious, awkward, and deeply creepy - one of Cronenberg's best films. And because the technology is so strange, the movie remains modern feeling instead of 90s- dated like Jonny Mnemonic or even The Matrix.

Great film. Not as good as "Strange Days" or "the 13th Floor" but if you like those or films like inception, dark city, altered states, the matrix and so on you'll like this.