BlackBerry' Review: Jay Baruchel & Glenn Howerton Star in ... - Collider
Everyday technology expands so fast and with such intensity that high-tech novelties tend to consume history itself. For instance, it's hard to imagine a world where Google's Android and Apple's iOS were not the leading players of the cellphone game. Still, a little more than a decade ago, BlackBerry portables were coveted by every teenager and used by businessmen as a symbol of status. Directed by Matt Johnson , BlackBerry is a new docudrama that proposes to explore the rise and fall of the once-popular cell phone brand and its parent company, Research In Motion (RIM). And while the subject might seem uninteresting to people who just don't care about what happens inside big corporations, with BlackBerry , Johnson manages to craft a thrilling and moving story about friendship, pride, and the brutality of the free market. BlackBerry takes us back to 1996, when visionary engineer Mike Lazaridis (played by Jay Baruchel ) came up with an idea to revolutionize the c