Silk Road

2021 • 116 minuten

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Inspired by larger-than-life actual events, this riveting crime thriller follows the rise and fall of Silk Road, the infamous darknet site that sent a seismic shock through the World Wide Web. Young, idealistic, and driven to succeed, Ross Ulbricht (Nick Robinson) creates the internet's first unregulated marketplace: Silk Road. But when it becomes a multimillion-dollar pipeline for illicit drugs, Ross is set on a collision course with Rick Bowden (Jason Clarke), a disreputable and dangerously unpredictable DEA agent, who will use any means necessary to take him down.

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There's a lot of texting, typing on a laptop, etc.. and I didn't feel engaged. I recently watched The Wolf's Call, a movie where almost all the action happens through the pings of a submarine's sonar and it was gripping. This movie failed to replicate something similar. The pace is slow and the suspense keeps being interrupted by the police guy's cliché family issues. If you're looking for a movie that keeps you on the edge of your seat, this isn't it.

I view this movie in two ways. The first is as a major miss in terms of writing and as what could have been a terrifying autopsy into what happens when white american privilege is combined with massive anonymous power; the second is that in a sad way it is a very true depiction: an average little psycho teaches himself to be an average coder and gets drunk on power and promptly gets a double-life sentence without parole via the underhanded and outright illegal work of an average cop. Either way it's brutal.

This movie doesn't begin to do justice to this complicated story. There were 3 teams of law enforcement people trying to catch Ulbricht, and the Baltimore team had 2 corrupt officers, Shaun Bridges (DEA) and Carl Force (FBI) who ultimately went to prison. However, there were plenty of honest law enforcement officers who are not really given serious credit in this movie. This movie needed a better director, better writers and better actors. See the book American Kingpin by Nic Bilton.