Eye Candy #109 - "Cypher"

Cypher: A small, neo-noir thriller, about a corporate spy Morgan (Jeremy Northam), working for two competing technology companies, Digicorp and Sunways. Morgan is tasked with assuming the identity of Jack Thursby and attending different conventions and sending back all the information he obtains to Digicorp. However, he meets a strange woman, Rita (played by Lucy Liu) who hints that all he’s doing isn’t actually as it seems and that what he has experienced of Digicorp thus far has been a deception (somewhere on the level of “The Parallax View“). Soon Morgan finds himself caught between both companies, acting as agent and double agent, while trying to extricate himself. Rita continues to insert herself into his life, and no one is exactly who they appear to be. A tight little movie (with a few Sci-Fi Channel regulars like Nigel Bennett and David Hewlett in minor roles) that almost becomes too confusing for its own good but thankfully pulls back at almost the last moment. The two leads, Liu and Northam, are good, though I’m sure Liu has been offered better scripts than the ones she’s signed-up for since “Ally McBeal”. Woodchuck sez, “May be up your alley.”