“‘BlackBerry’ has its own, crafty way of finding the humor along with the inevitable path toward financial disaster sprung from greed,” writes Tribune critic phillipstribune.
I enjoyed “Air” while also wondering if we were getting a little too much hot air in the telling. Consider “BlackBerry” a sharp-witted, fleet-footed complement bordering on a corrective to that movie.
Cowritten, co-starring and directed by Matt Johnson, “BlackBerry” doesn’t sermonize or push the comedy or falsify the dramatic dynamics of wildly contrasting personalities. It’s a small but quite beautiful achievement, which you could also say about the smartphone that could, and did. For a while.“The person who puts a computer inside a phone will change the world,” says RIM tech wizard Mike Lazaridis, crediting his high school shop class instructor with the quote.
Beginning in 1996, the film bases its narrative on the nonfiction account “Losing the Signal.” The RIM office, a merry, dumpy strip-mall beehive, has some money behind it. Quite a bit, in fact; a $1.6 million bank loan has led to the invention and production of modems shipped off by the dozens to RIM’s first big client, U.S. Robotics. Only they haven’t gotten paid yet. Mike is panicking; Doug is too busy having a ball with the guys on movie night to care about the future.
In that aspect “BlackBerry” recalls the betrayal of trust between old pals and startup founders depicted inwhich remains the gold standard in the realm of freely fictionalized tech age cautionary tales. This one’s not after the same sort of high-flown, dark-toned ruminations, at least in the same storytelling fashion. The visual approach is nervous docudrama, effectively deployed.
The cast boasts some serious deadpan ringers, notably Baruchel, who never fails to amuse or to surprise with his dramatic precision when called for. The sparkplug, though, dominates throughout. Glenn Howerton plays Balsillie as a raging, semi-maniacal force of economic nature, and it’s a terrific performance. We’ve seen this guy before in a lot of movies, but rarely better. He’s basically a one-man production of “Glengarry Glen Ross,” which is name-checked, for the record, in the script.
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