BlackBerry

Two mismatched entrepreneurs – egghead innovator Mike Lazaridis and cut-throat businessman Jim Balsillie – joined forces in an endeavour that was to become a worldwide hit in little more than a decade. The story of the meteoric rise and catastrophic demise of the world's first smartphone.

Cast

Jay Baruchel

Jay Baruchel

as Mike Lazaridis

Glenn Howerton

Glenn Howerton

as Jim Balsillie

Matt Johnson

Matt Johnson

as Doug Fregin

Rich Sommer

Rich Sommer

as Paul Stanos

Michael Ironside

Michael Ironside

as Charles Purdy

Cary Elwes

Cary Elwes

as Carl Yankowski

Martin Donovan

Martin Donovan

as Rick Brock

Michelle Giroux

Michelle Giroux

as Dara Frankel

Saul Rubinek

Saul Rubinek

as John Woodman

SungWon Cho

SungWon Cho

as Ritchie Cheung

Reviews

CinemaSerf

Matt Johnson's rather John McEnroe-esque "Doug" rather stole this tale of what was literally a tech-tonic shift in how we used our mobile phones. He, together with his boss Mike (Jay Baruchel), has been working with a small team of geeks to develop a mobile word processor that can send messages by t...

Louisa Moore - Screen Zealots

“Blackberry” is a film about the failure and spectacular collapse of the world’s first smart phone. Adapting Jacquie McNish and Sean Silcoff’s book “Losing the Signal: The Untold Story Behind the Extraordinary Rise and Spectacular Fall of BlackBerry” for the screen, director Matt Johnson creates an ...

kisaligol

The script seems to be written mostly from the perspective of Jim Balsillie, a businessman that was co-CEO of Blackberry, while engineers take a backseat. This follows the general tendency in film to glorify businessmen, treating the people who actually conceptualize, design and implement the produc...

MarciaClarke

I kept hearing people say this movie was actually not bad for a movie about BalckBerry, and you know what, they were right! Glenn Howerton plays an incredibly entertaining psycho as always. Jay Baruchel does the befuddled muppet thing with aplomb. And then the doofus sidekick guy who's actually more...

badelf

In one sense, this is a comedic action film. In another sense, it's a biopic of a lying, cheating, ruthless, tech businessman of a slightly less rank than Bezos, Zuckerberg and the "Don't be Evil" Page/Brin team. Overall, it's brilliantly cast and paced. It moves along at the perfect clip for thi...

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