'BlackBerry' traces the rise and fall of two men who started a tech revolution — and then completely screwed it all up. Read our review:
co-creator hasn’t previously played someone who acts horrifically yet still keeps you on his side. Nor is it off-brand for the writer-actor-producer to take on a role in which he radiates that he’s better than the idiots and saps and suckers surrounding him, as fans of the late, great sitcomthe scrappy Canadian indie about a scrappy Canadian company that changed the world, that goes above and beyond his usual lovable sociopath act. It’s not range.
About the less-than-dynamic duo that rounds out this unholy corporate trinity: They’re Mike Lazaridis and Douglas Fregin , longtime friends and co-founders of Research in Motion. A cybersecurity software company based in Waterloo, Ontario — feel free to savor the city’s name, given how this story ends; the film certainly does — R.I.M. is deeply in debt, and the office is little more than a beta-male frat house.
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