“eXistenZ” is another strange movie with a serious obsession with orifices so it must be the work of director David Cronenberg (“Videodrome”, “The Naked Lunch”). “eXistenZ” is about the blurring of videogames and reality but it takes so many unexplainable and totally illogical twists and turns along the way that your head might be hurting afterwards.

A videogame designer (Jennifer Jason Leigh “The Machinist”) is on the run from assassins when she must enter her latest virtual creation with a marketing trainee (Jude Law “Enemy At The Gates”) in order to see if the game has become damaged. As the film progresses, it gets crazier and crazier and it all gets too silly for my liking.

The characters in “eXistenZ” enter videogames using a special port created by making a new hole in someone at the bottom of their spine, it looks even more unpleasant than it sounds. Thankfully, we don’t yet live in a world where people mutilate themselves to play videogames. Jennifer Jason Leigh is fairly dull as Allegra Geller and Jude Law is equally unimpressive as Ted Pikul. The chemistry between the two is very weak. Ian Holm (“Alien”) and Willem Dafoe (“Spider-Man”) seem criminally underused here. Pretty much every character delivers painfully stupid dialog.

“eXistenZ” does feature something amazing; there is a gun made out of flesh and bone and it fires teeth. Aside from that, the film is too convoluted for any of the science-fiction to be captivating. The ending of the film is one of those endings that has so many twists that you feel cheated out of ending. The special effects seem mostly okay but it’s a real shame that there isn’t anything very special about the rest of the movie. I think much like Cronenberg’s “Videodrome”, “eXistenZ” favours graphic imagery over story and that of course comes at a heavy price.