Do you remember hearing about the dark web and the Silk Road website in the news for bit in the early 2010s? What a strange question, that would only make sense to someone who's been on this earth a little while. Well, this movie is about the creation of that website, its eventual downfall and the people involved. It was slow to start, but took off about halfway through with a strong heist-caper energy to it.
Silk Road is one of those based-on-a-true-story movies along the lines of Wolf of Wall Street and Spotlight, but it wasn't as exciting as WOWS and certainly not as dull as Spotlight. Unfortunately, these are the types of films I watch once and have no desire to watch them again. They aren't great acting, writing or production venues. They just inform you in an engaging way about the contents of one core sample of a larger history. There have been several documentaries made on this subject and that's where I'll go next if I need another fix of Silk Road information.
I'm giving this three stars *** but I don't see any reason to watch it again. I do recommend it if you're interested in the subject.
I watched an online screener of this film. Thanks, Lionsgate!
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