If you expect to see breathtaking thriller movie,then don't watch this dull and pale one.The movie starts showing "Morgan Sullivan" applying for a job in a high tech company about spying job, but then he gets in contact with a woman that is going to change all his beliefs although her few show ups.The good thing that every time she shows up, she starts to explain to him about everything he doubts about.The image was really dark and pale throughout the movie except the last scene, it really wasn't an appealing thing to see that lack of coloration.The always surprising look on the face of "Jeremy Northam" is weird specially it's added with his tired look which really felt lazy and not related to any thrill. I guess "Lucy Liu" did her worst roles in this one.Finally, it's a good idea's movie that may keep you wondering throughout it -if you kept watching it till the end and succeed in fighting the boredom-, it has a lot of cheap special effects that really affect the quality of the whole movie, they also forgot to deal with sound effects specialist as you will notice that the soundtrack is a continuous repeating one minute suspension music.

I don't see a lot of science fiction films. I found "Cypher" both bizarre and interesting. It was made in 2002, and, 12 years later, Lucy Liu looks exactly the same -- great.Jeremy Northram plays Morgan Sullivan, a bored suburbanite, who takes a job as an industrial spy for a company called Digicorp, an international computer corporation.His job turns out to be not that exciting at first. He attends conventions, records the deadly dull speeches, and hands in the discs. When he encounters Rita Foster (Lucy Liu), he finds out there's much more to the job. As he gets more involved with what he's doing, he encounters brainwashing, playacting, and danger.Everyone except for Liu in this film is pasty-looking with bloodshot eyes and bags under them, photographed with a fish eye lens, to indicate that they are all pretty much zombies at these conventions. The color is sort of a no-color muted color. Nearly everyone speaks as if he's a computer-generated voice, but a good one, not the robot type.Thus, one immediately is aware of the world we're in, and it's a perilous, fast-moving one where one doesn't know whom to trust, if anyone. The denouement puts a human face on what all the running around and corporate stealing was about.Northram and Liu are attractive, and the people surrounding them -- Nigel Bennett, Timothy Webber, et al. are appropriately sinister. Definitely worth checking out.

A cult movie, nuff said. The casting was strange yet workable, the music was forgettable. But the more I watch it, the more I like it. A great indirect story about identity and modern society.I liked the color in which the movie is slightly tainted, reminder of a film noir and yet with a modern twist (kind of a Minority Report set and feeling). The story unfolds gently and every part has a proper function of the whole. It's perhaps about how your life can turn into something else... and still be part of you. Fully recommended!

Dominate our attention for several minutes, with brief and intense lapses of excitement, is the least a movie can do for us. Most usually considered ''average'' films serve exactly that cup of tea, not much to be remembered, but innovative and stimulating enough to renovate the feeling of enjoying a movie with no further interest. The sci-fi/noir thriller Cypher lies comfortably in the realm of average productions described above.Entertaining enough, stylish to delight the eyes, compelling to caught the minimum of our deliberation and with a capital twist in the plot to regale the enduring audience. These are basically the positive points. Although, truth be told, it is hard to go wrong with a corporation's espionage story; this whole theme is charismatic by nature, and director Vincenzo Natali's credentials made him just the person to administer such a topic. The direction and production, nifty as always (although as always blatantly unhewn), could not survive without Jeremy Northam and Lucy Liu, the perfect faces to incorporate the somehow impersonal emotionless of the film.Clearly, the purpose of the plot revolves on sustaining its trickiness and glamour, way occupied on that to demonstrate any concern on character appeal or development. And despite the good effort on preserve the interest, the major twist was not revealed in the most exciting way possible, being followed by a rather silly happy ending. But well, a stereotyped finale and forgettable characters are the main trademark of average movies anyway.