eXistenZ . Tucson Weekly . 05-24-99

eXistenZ

DIRECTED BY: David Cronenberg

REVIEWED: 05-24-99

This may be Cronenberg's best film, and makes up for his misfire on Crash. The story involves a virtual-reality video game, wherein the players play a virtual-reality video game, wherein the players play a virtual-reality video game. Take that, Will Shakespeare, with your little play-within-a-play motif! All the technology in this surreal sci-fi is fleshy, like the video game consoles that are made of organic parts from mutated amphibians, and the anus-like "ports" in the player's spines through which they jack into the games, and a gun made of frog parts that shoots human teeth. Then there's the most disgusting lunch buffet ever filmed. And some bizarre and compelling dialogue, with weird and chilling performances that mesh neatly with the story's inherent lost reality. eXistenZ is sexy, slimy and so refreshingly creative that it's ultimately like nothing you've ever seen. Its 97 minutes zip by so fast you'll want to see it again just to make sure it was real.

--James DiGiovanna

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