Blackberry (2023) is a MoneyBro movie par excellence, right up there with "Wall Street", "Glengarry Glen Ross", "Boiler Room" (2000; Vin Diesel, Ben Affleck) in a fast paced suspenseful, dark comedy of tech dreams play on insider knowledge or exploit an opponent’s weaknesses scoring vindicating promotions and huge paydays with charismatic sociopaths and sheep, and the capitalist system they operate in is deeply corrupt and rewards men without morals or conscience.
The BlackBerry, of course, was the handheld device that the iPhone and its imitators wiped out of the marketplace. Part one of the movie shows how Mike Lazaridis (played by Jay Baruchel) and his partner Douglas Fregin (goofy nerd) created the BlackBerry and figured out how to let huge numbers of them operate on the same cellular network without crashing the system, then watched as its popularity spread, putting them on the verge of becoming tech icons in the mold of Steve Jobs.
The movie sprints through the company’s rise starting in 1996, Research in Motion (RIM), compressing a lot of the story into lively montages. It shows us the beginning and end of this story but nothing else. It's a fun ride to watch. Filmed in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
"Let me tell you the best advice I ever got at Harvard. You want to be great, you need to sacrifice. The more painful the sacrifice, the greater you'll be."
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The BlackBerry, of course, was the handheld device that the iPhone and its imitators wiped out of the marketplace. Part one of the movie shows how Mike Lazaridis (played by Jay Baruchel) and his partner Douglas Fregin (goofy nerd) created the BlackBerry and figured out how to let huge numbers of them operate on the same cellular network without crashing the system, then watched as its popularity spread, putting them on the verge of becoming tech icons in the mold of Steve Jobs.
The movie sprints through the company’s rise starting in 1996, Research in Motion (RIM), compressing a lot of the story into lively montages. It shows us the beginning and end of this story but nothing else. It's a fun ride to watch. Filmed in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
"Let me tell you the best advice I ever got at Harvard. You want to be great, you need to sacrifice. The more painful the sacrifice, the greater you'll be."
"It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong." – Thomas Sowell