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I'll try not to eviscerate the laughably dour eXistenZ , a virtual-reality guessing game of a thriller in which David Cronenberg, evidently licking his wounds over the calamitous receptions of Crash (1996), M. Butterfly (1993), and Naked Lunch (1991), goes back to the terrain he once profitably mined in Scanners (1981) and Videodrome (1983).
We even talked about cranking out another lesser thriller, remember?
The thriller side of the book is well crafted, and the dialogue, pacing, and plotting keep reviewers engaged: "Bedford is the genuine article, a writer of unmistakable flair and accomplishment" (Carey Harrison, the New York Times Book Review ), but many reviewers say he does not show the same skill level in revealing his characters' emotional lives.
My old friend McKibben's aesthetic is not the same as mine (his favorite movie is Gandhi ), but since reading his book I pay closer attention to the temporal aspects of film, convinced that even, say, a successful formula thriller like Breakdown derives much of its power from its simulation of real time.
Having expected a disaster, most critics confess surprise that Robert Altman's direction redeems this thriller, which began as a hokey John Grisham story.