Cypher

2002 "Never forget who you are"
6.7| 1h35m| R| en| More Info
Released: 01 October 2002 Released
Producted By: Miramax
Country: United States of America
Budget: 0
Revenue: 0
Official Website: https://www.miramax.com/movie/Cypher/
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An unsuspecting, disenchanted man finds himself working as a spy in the dangerous, high-stakes world of corporate espionage. Quickly getting way over-his-head, he teams up with a mysterious femme fatale.

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Director

Vincenzo Natali

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Miramax

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Cypher Audience Reviews

Hellen I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much
SunnyHello Nice effects though.
Moustroll Good movie but grossly overrated
Maidexpl Entertaining from beginning to end, it maintains the spirit of the franchise while establishing it's own seal with a fun cast
Jon Corelis Morgan Sullivan (Jeremy Northam,) tiring of his dull suburban life, gets a job as an industrial spy for a huge software house, but quickly finds himself in a bafflingly complex and perilous web of deception involving a rival corporation, brainwashing, a sinister, inaccessible Mr. Big, and a mysterious femme fatale (Lucy Liu) who appears at crucial moments only to vanish.Cypher is an intelligent sci-fi/espionage/thriller, stylishly filmed and well acted. It's the type of science fiction that depends more on ideas than special effects, though those it employs are convincing. (It seems to be set in a near future -- at any rate, the technology used seems a bit beyond what currently exists.) It's a low-budget film that doesn't look low budget thanks to the the skill of director Vincenzo Natali (best known for Cube,) and features one of the more clever surprise endings you'll find. Lucy Liu, as usual, is a joy to watch, and the other actors are generally good. Idiotically rated R for a few profanities. I saw it on the Miramax 2005 standard DVD, which is of very good quality.
jackwilliamson946 Let me just start out the box by saying that this movie bears no similarities whatsoever to the movie The Matrix. Heard someone say it did; it does not. What it IS is, IMHO, perhaps the coolest spy flick of all time. The story line is intriguing, the plot twists and turns unpredictably, the anti-hero wins, sort-of, in a way that you'll never see coming.Jeremy Northam gives an excellent performance, as his character transforms from a nerdy uptight white guy to a gritty, no-holds-barred super-spy of the type that you do not want to have mad at you. Bond has nothing on this guy. If you've seen The Hitcher, the real one with C. Howel Thomas, you'll have an idea what I mean. Sadly, Lucy Liu, as the heroine, gives a decidedly less impressive performance. There were several scenes that I would not have settled for had I been directing. But she did do well enough for the most part, so it doesn't detract from the movie as a whole.It's a shame this little gem didn't get greater play, it really does deserve more. My advice to you is definitely do invest the time watching it; you'll be glad you did.
The Blast Club - Ariel Guerra (web-534-393830) 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!
peterfaure It's sad to see such a gem of a movie largely ignored, while so many terrible Hollywood movies get wider distribution, bigger budgets and plenty of undeserved success.... still, if you are into lower budget movies much higher on creativity and originality, you can't miss cypher.Why?Awesome acting, with Jeremy Northam and Lucy Liu (I have to agree, vastly underrated, but then again Hollywood and America want their stars to be white or black generally, how sad) giving performances that make many famous stars look like department stores dummies in comparisonLow budget effects but visually ultra stylish and very creative (as an example, our hero, basically a zero, lives in a neighborhood where, seen from above, the nondescript suburban homes form the image of a 0, just one of the many little details that add depth to the viewing experience)A very interesting story and plenty of thought provoking dialogs and situations; clever, well-crafted, interesting until the last minute.But then again, nothing that surprising when you consider that it's a work of the same director of "Cube", a cult, low-budget, Canadian Sci-Fi movie still remembered as extremely original by all fans of intelligent science fiction, too bad this fantastic new effort went unnoticed, the director and the actors deserved much more recognition for it.