![]() Research in Motion - led by a nervous but good-intentioned engineer Mike Lazaridis (an excellent Jay Baruchel) - had the idea of a computer inside a phone using a free wireless signal but was in debt and out of its depth, with no prototype.Įnter Jim Balsillie (a superbly menacing Glenn Howerton) who snaps his Harvard-educated towel at the geeks, canceling movie nights and slamming their noses to the grindstones. Smart as the geeks were, they weren't modern businessmen. Johnson also stars as Doug Fregin, a headband-wearing, movie-quoting uber-geek, an amalgam of a few Research in Motion people. “BlackBerry” tells the standard rise and fall of a tech startup that blows up, naturally leading to insider infighting - think “Silicon Valley” and “The Social Network” - but there's a twist here: The main money guy, while very shouty, is not the sleazy, bad guy you might expect.ĭirector and co-writer Matt Johnson recounts a breathless decade or so starting in 1996, when Research in Motion was just an office filled with tech geeks in Canada. ![]() ![]() The BlackBerry may seem quaint now in the days of sleek water resistant 5G phones with face ID, but it was the first mobile device with a pager, cellphone and email capability all in one thing. ![]()
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