Directed by:
Vincenzo NataliCinematography:
Derek RogersComposer:
Michael AndrewsCast:
Jeremy Northam, Lucy Liu, Nigel Bennett, Timothy Webber, David Hewlett, Valerie Buhagiar, Len Carlson, Kari Matchett, Peter Mensah, Roberta Angelica (more)Plots(1)
From Vincenzo Natali, the visionary director of Cube, comes a mind-bending sci-fi thriller that will keep you guessing until its final twist. Morgan Sullivan (Jeremy Northam) is an out of work accountant seeking an escape from his lacklustre existence and his overbearing wife. He becomes a company spy for the multinational corporation Digicorp, where he assumes new identities in order to secretly record information for his ruthless boss. Morgan encounters the elusive and beautiful Rita (Lucy Liu) who reveals that he is being brainwashed. Rita offers him anti-brain washing drugs and Morgan is forced into working for rival company Sunways. As a double agent Morgan is having difficulty distinguishing reality from the visions that plague him. His only hope to be saved is Rooks, Rita's boss, but first Morgan must complete a final assignment more deadly than anything that come before. (4DVD)
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A cheap, but technically non-cheating sci-fi that works for the first half hour or so, when Natali's talent for working with tension and paranoid atmosphere is on full display. But when he lays out the first hand of cards, he is sadly hampered by the screenwriter, who bluffs with the most outlandish special effects instead of elegant trump cards, and everything is obstructed by a predictable point. The fact that it doesn't really make much sense (the question "why all this?" will haunt me for a long time) doesn't matter - the fact that you’re yawning an hour into it does.
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A low budget sci-fi film that isn’t ashamed of its cheap visuals but actually proud of them. Cypher is a small, low profile and austere film about industrial espionage full of twists that surprise at the beginning with their cadence and essence, but then (in the last half hour) become rather annoying and pointlessly messy. And the main one at the end was very disappointing. Otherwise, though, thumbs up, if only there were more small genre films like this.
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Cypher is a mysterious, paranoid sci-fi flick that I at first found more absorbing than The Matrix. I then found it confusing and it tragically disappointed me in the end. Such intelligent and formalistically elegant filmmaking deserved much more than the unsatisfying, second-rate conclusion!
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