I wanted to but couldn't!

I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.

The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

True to its essence, the characters remain on the same line and manage to entertain the viewer, each highlighting their own distinctive qualities or touches.

Jeremy Northam plays a corporate spy caught between two rival firms in a cyberpunk future where he's not always quite sure who he's working for, who's on his side, or even of his own identity. Lucy Liu plays a femme fatale of sorts who helps (or is she manipulating?) Northam. It's a clever twisting plot, though the film suffers some from it's limited budget and suffers more so from under developed characters, which made me less interested in what happens to them. These strengths and weaknesses were also true of writer/director Vincenzo Natali's previous film "Cube" (he also later directed the underrated "Splice"). Overall, the Byzantine plot is so clever and so much smarter than most science fiction films, it makes this film well worth checking out by sci-fi fans despite it's deficiencies.

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.

I ran across this on cable, and only watched it because I had NEVER seen Jeremy Northam in ANYTHING modern. This was really a stylish little thriller along the lines of - I dunno - Matrix (not much) + Italian Job (cross/double cross)+ 1984 (dystopia for everyone). Northam is excellent, as he always is. He himself is the cypher of the title, I think, and as he peels away the multiple layers of his identity, you can see the panic under the desperately cool exterior he tries to maintain. The end came as a complete surprise to me, but maybe I'm easily fooled. It's hard to get some of Lucy Liu's (ahem) LESSER roles out of your mind when you see her in this, but she acquits herself well enough. Well-written, and well-executed - I recommend this with great enthusiasm.

Cypher starts out with an interesting premise -- corporate espionage -- but then attempts to add twists & turns and layer upon layer, before pretty soon you have no idea what is going on, who are the good guys, who are the bad guys...what you're watching at all.The (apparently) deliberate monochromatic visual tones, pedestrian acting and dull CGI sequences don't help either. By the end I was rooting only for the film to end so I could get more space on my DVR.A film with some similarity, far better done, is Inception.My rating should really be 5.5/10. Hard to understand what why so many folks rated it so highly -- one of the few times IMDb ratings have steered me wrong.