Review of BlackBerry (2023) by Jluis_001 — 18 May 2023

BlackBerry, as the name indicates, is a film about the story of this line of mobile phones and joins the ongoing trend in recent years of making series and films about technology products and their creators.

I recognize the style and pacing are much more relaxed than many other stories I've seen of this type, which is quite a nice change.

It also blends humor with drama in similar measures, although its structure hints at where it draws certain influences from, because in the end, the story is one that feels very familiar even if you know little about what happened to the company when smartphones, especially the iPhone, took over the market.

And there is no better known story in the world than that of an empire - in this case a technological one - that achieves success and then crumbles.

Overall the film works quite well without anything extraordinary to mention, but I must say that out of the whole project if anyone should be singled out for having surprised me it is Jay Baruchel, because even beyond the changes in his appearance, for the first time in his entire career he showed that he has something more to demonstrate in what until now I considered his very limited repertoire.

It's not the slickest film of its genre, but it's entertaining and compelling. That's good enough for what it is.