jeremy northam struggle against a total recall clone script and disposable romantic by play to bring life to a confused character . lucy liu graduate her acting from a wooden start to a workman like finish . you can not fail to laugh when view her interview on the dvd when she use the term femme fatal and romance . french film noir actress she be not and they lack chemistry together . this movie fail and not in the plot or the action sequence but in the lack of attention to detail in the film photography and ham fisted portrayal of the world of technology surround the main protagonist . little attempt be make to dress the scenery to represent any contiguous filmic landscape or period . automobile be very 1990 and the architecture barely modern with open plan that hint at a restricted budget rather than conscious set dress technique . the technology be positively hilarious . massive 2001 represent a space odyssey mainframe feed by man portable cd rom with data collect for some unexplained reason and in spite of the proliferating communication network that even the most un savvy technologist today would obviously be aware . there be an obvious lack of research do here and give the open source nature of the cyber community and research would have cost little more than a bulletin board and personal time . dvd interview also reveal the original movie name be company man but this likely ditch in order to cash in on matrix hype . the cypher title have only the slight link with the movie . terry gilliam would have do wonder with this concept while and completely re write the decalogue . this be tele movie quality and extremely disappointing for a movie length production . it might have make a good sub plot for alias .