Cypher (2002)
Directed by Vincenzo Natali
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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Corporate espionage was fairly common in late 20th-century speculative fiction, but hasn’t really taken off in the cinema outside of films such as Cypher (2002) and Largo Winch (2008), which both deserved greater attention but slipped under the radar of many genre fans.
Cypher is a Philip K Dick-style spy thriller about shifting identities and corporate espionage.
But director Vincenzo Natali , who favors one-word titles ("Cypher," "Cube"), decides to focus his camera instead on the odd "family" dynamic that emerges between Elsa, Clive and specimen H-50.
Natali has always been a promising genre stylist, and even if I don't love every moment of "Cypher," "Nothing," or "Cube," those films displayed enormous promise.
In contrast to those big-budget sci-fi flicks, writer-director Vincenzo Natali (Cypher) keeps a tight focus on the way relationships evolve between the trio.