MOVIE REVIEW: Rise and fall of the original smartphone as hilarious tech satire.
) in hiding his powerhouse comedy team and letting them be submerged in the morally murky and ultimately ruthless tech satire of's Glenn Howerton with shears to give him a sharp, bald, almost tonsured look as Jim Balsillie, the money man and financial vampire behind the world-dominating growth of the BlackBerry, the original smartphone .
But in hilariously exhuming the history of the CrackBerry, Johnson brings his grimy, grungy, vérité sensibilities to bear on a story that is part-. There's none of the calm philosophizing you might expect from a Sorkinesque take on this, but instead a visceral, rounded look at the bizarre confluence of accidents and manipulation needed to unleash a legitimate game changer. Everyone's an asshole. Everyone's a victim.
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