Movie review: BlackBerry is a smart look back at phone war's also-ran starring Jay Baruchel and Glenn Howerton
"BlackBerry" -- ★ ★ ★ Gather around, young ones. Silence your iPhones and Samsungs. We're here to learn about the Before Times, when the hottest tech device was nicknamed"CrackBerry."
"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. Enter Jim Balsillie who snaps his Harvard-educated towel at the geeks, canceling movie nights and slamming their noses to the grindstones. He screams things like:"You need to sell a million BlackBerries before Q3!"
Doug Fregin is a headband-wearing, movie-quoting uber-geek in"BlackBerry." - Courtesy of IFC Films The film is adapted from Jacquie McNish and Sean Silcoff's"Losing the Signal: The Untold Story Behind the Extraordinary Rise and Spectacular Fall of BlackBerry." It is said to be"a fictionalization inspired by real people and real events."
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