Who knew a Canadian biopic of an infamous smartphone could be this entertaining, even poignant and moving? I am here to tell you today’s World Premiere Berlin Film Festival competition entry,…
– sensational), Johnson’s film starts in 1996 with the emergence of this unheard of idea of a phone that can also send and receive emails with its keyboard built into a magical device no one in the tech world had achieved before these Canadian dreamers actually found a way to make itBut first it is Lazaridis and his freewheeling loopy but techsmart buddy Douglas Fregin , along with their unsophisticated tech-y friends, who are out to convince the world they can deliver on the promise of their...
Johnson tells the whole saga , soup to nuts, in a highly entertaining and fast moving fashion that keeps you riveted thoughout. You really find yourself rooting for these guys, particularly Lazaridis and Fregin and their ragtag team of tech nerds who hold a world-changing device in their hands, until theyAt its heart it is an underdog story straight from the heart of the ironically named Waterloo, Ontario where it all began, but also a very cautionary warning that what goes up must come down.
however steals the movie with a dynamic turn as a hardcore, cunning business guy who won’t take ‘no’ for an answer as he wills the success of this smartphone into being. He drives this movie like J.K. Simmons droveAmong the supporting cast is fine work from Rubinek, Rich Sommer, Cary Elwes, Sungwon Cho, and Michael Ironside, the latter being the hard-nosed fearsome outsider executive brought in to turn this crew into an efficient factory.
Based on the book, “Losing The Signal: The Untold Story Behind The Extraordinary Rise And Spectacular Fall Of Blackberry” by Jacquie McNish and Sean Silcoff, these filmmakers have taken a tech heavy business book and given it life, soul, and sorrow in the most human of terms, and that is no easy undertaking. Producers are Niv Fichman, Matthew Miller, Fraser Ash, and Kevin Krikst. IFC has domestic distribution, while Paramount has it worldwide outside of the U.S..
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