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eXistenZ
1999
· Movie
· 97 min
C
MEANRANK
69/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #2570
- IMDb #2627
- Rotten Tomatoes #2191
- Metacritic #1416
- Letterboxd #1788
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #2272
+5 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #2668
- Metacritic Critics #1467
- Metacritic Audience #1419
- Criticker #1363
- AlloCiné #2547
Every rating
53–77
out of 100
Mostly agreed
Lowest is Criticker on 53, highest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 77.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A renowned game designer is targeted by assassins at the launch of her new virtual reality game, eXistenZ. She goes on the run with a marketing trainee and must enter her own game to test its safety. The lines between the game world and reality quickly blur, making it impossible to tell what is real.
Details
- Director
- David Cronenberg
- Writer
- David Cronenberg
- Released
- 14 April 1999
- Country
- Canada, United Kingdom
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 97 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $15.0M
- Box office
- $2.9M
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