Everybody has heard of the Blackberry phone but did you ever wonder how the illustrious super expensive iPhone ended up being the most popular smartphone phone created? Now Blackberry phones aren’t even a thing. The company has officially phased the phones out. In a market filled with high flyers and business people, Blackberry’s creator Mike Lazaridis alongside the co-creator Douglas Fregin took a small but pivotal idea and ran with it. They had the brains and enough nouse to float an incredible idea. A device that enables its user to make phone calls, type out an email, and hear the satisfying click of a keyboard as if they held a laptop in their hands.
Unable to convince a cut-throat industry to sit up and listen, they enlisted ruthless businessman Jim Balsillie. He became part of their company after he originally turned them down. In turn, he floated it to a bigger arena. The subsequent feeding frenzy and chaotic beautiful disaster that eventuates thereafter is captivating to watch. There is something about watching tech nerds and big corporations smash up together and slowly decimate each other in the rush to see whose dick is bigger. In Blackberry 2023, it’s hard to tell once they all start swinging them around.
New Blackberry Phone Movie
What’s easy to see is how being the first to present doesn’t necessarily make one the best. Blackberry founders had all the ideas. These ideas were then spruiked by a man with all the connections. Once the money started to roll in everyone wanted a piece of the action. Those that were able to forge a sinister plot to steamroll this new innovative company did so. Meanwhile, Balsillie and his very loud voice set up an appropriate underhand defense. And it worked for a while.
Performances in the “Blackberry movie” range from powerful to exceptional. Similarly to when Jesse Eisenberg tapped into his character as Mark Zuckerberg in The Social Network, casting here is, in a word, perfection. Glenn Howerton’s Jim Balsillie is like a human headhunting stormtrooper. You can’t help but love him for his tenacity then smugly smirk at his inability to fully appreciate the big picture.
Jay Baruchel’s Mike Lazaridis is the type of innocent geek whose power and arrogance are the first thing you don’t see. Set against Matt Johnson’s Douglas Fregin, the third wheel in the production, becomes a pivotal antidote to the absurdity of the rocket ship’s rise to popularity. Occasionally popping up to remind the bigger players that there is no point to anything if no one is enjoying it anymore. He serves as a quiet but pushed-down voice who ultimately wins in the end.
Blackberry Phone With Keyboard
While Balsille forces quality quagmires across the entire company and Lasaridis contemplates what consumers ultimately want and tries to keep up with it, Steve Jobs releases his new innovation. The iPhone announces they don’t have a keyboard at all. Additionally, their device will depreciate the need for MP3 players.
The market went absolutely wild for this new smartphone. Meanwhile, Balsille continues to follow his own agenda of owning a baseball team. And while it certainly isn’t the entire reason for the losses to follow, his decision-making during such a crucial point in the timeline certainly didn’t help. Nor did the fact of Lasaridis’s pride and inability to let go of having a keyboard click as you typed a text message.
“Blackberry” is a great film to watch. While the runtime of 2 hours might seem a little long in the tooth, the narrative is so jam-packed full of great characters and an interesting storyline, that it never feels that long.
Blackberry 2023 is rated
4 technology movies about smartphones and smart people out of 5
For more information see the official Blackberry movie website. The title was acquired as a screener and is distributed by IFC Films. The Blackberry movie was produced by Rhombus Media. For another biographical true story on Netflix, stream Baby Reindeer next.
Blackberry Movie The First Smartphone & Apple - Mother of Movies
Director: Matt Johnson
Date Created: 2023-12-05 12:17
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Pros
- Ideal casting choices make Blackberry a must-watch
- Action and tense driven storyline
Cons
- The runtime is two hours and could have been wound tighter
