A game designer on the run from assassins must play her latest virtual reality creation with a marketing trainee to determine if the game has been damaged.
This darkly sexual sci-fi horror variant by Cronenberg makes The Matrix look like child's play.
– Bob Graham,
San Francisco Chronicle,
1 Jan 2000
fresh:
Jennifer Jason Leigh is an ideal Cronenberg heroine, projecting a personality that is smart, wary and capable of obsessiveness.
– Kevin Thomas,
Los Angeles Times,
14 Feb 2001
rotten:
It's good art direction in search of an idea.
– Jeff Millar,
Houston Chronicle,
21 Jul 2005
fresh:
Dark, delirious fun.
– Geoff Andrew,
Time Out,
26 Jan 2006
rotten:
I just don't happen to like puzzle films of any kind, but I must credit Mr. Cronenberg with more intellectual depth than most of his fellow pessimistic movie pranksters.