Review – eXistenZ

Imagine Videodrome remade as a William Gibson thriller and you’ll quickly figure out just how far David Cronenberg has sunk. This offering serves up a heavy dose of the director’s trademark gross-outs, including no end of bio-tech blood and guts. I guess this might have been a little more interesting if it had come along at the beginning of the cyberpunk era, but by this point the majority of the multiple-reality-centered plot and high-tech-weapons-centered action is more than slightly stale. If you’re doing a term paper on cyberpunk movies, this is a good example of the genre in what I hope proves to be its decline. Otherwise this dog does little to justify the time and money. See if desperate