Cypher (2002) Film4

Cypher (2002) was written by Brian King and an amalgam of Philip K Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner, and the box office smash The Matrix. All you need to know, however, is it stars Lucy Liu. A general rule of thumb is if it stars Lucy Liu it’s a turkey. She was outacted by an animated baby in Ally McBeal. She was the ugliest angel that Charlie could have picked in a class that included the not overly pretty Drew Barrymore. Lucy Liu of course, has pedigree, but then again so do horses. Both look good groomed. You can point them one way, or the other, and one of them does not speak like Ed the talking horse, all of which has nothing much to do with the movie. What does Cypher really mean? Ah, it all started so well then Lucy got involved. It means it’s rubbish.