Review: “BlackBerry,” tells the story of how a ragtag team of Canadian computer nerds invented the device that would revolutionize modern communications until it became known as the thing you owned before you got an iPhone.
That last line is taken almost verbatim from “BlackBerry,” which follows a rags-to-riches-back-to-rags story arc serving as both an entertaining cautionary tale and a fond look back at the Before Times, when we weren’t hunched over our handheld dinguses, rabbit-holing through our personal silos.
a mop-topped gaming fan with the bedside manner of the guy in the record store who reflexively sneers at your musical taste; the more mild-mannered, prematurely gray Lazaridis is his polar opposite, stammering and underselling himself until the duo is inevitably shown the door. The team’s fortunes change when they intersect with Jim Balsillie, a corporate shark played with cold-eyed ferocity by Glenn Howerton. His head shaved to resemble a heat-seeking bullet, Howerton injects a note of giddy ambition to “BlackBerry,” which breathlessly chronicles the myriad missteps that turned Fregin and Lazaridis’s good idea into a historical footnote.
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