Silk Road

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Silk Road

R,

2021,

1h 56m,

Mystery & Thriller/

Crime/

Drama

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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.

Critics Consensus

Silk Road draws intriguing parallels between its oppositional main characters, but doesn't do quite enough to develop the story surrounding them.

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Mark Kermode

Kermode & Mayo's Film Review

Mar 30, 2021

A passable cybercrime thriller...kind of manages to be interesting, though the invented stuff feels VERY invented...

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Linda Marric

New Scientist

Mar 18, 2021

Robinson gives a suitably nervy and understated performance as the anti-hero you wish you could root for.

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Danny Leigh

Financial Times

Mar 17, 2021

3/5

The game of cat-and-mouse is diverting enough...

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Daryl MacDonald

InSession Film

Apr 26, 2024

C

Silk Road plays more like a run-of-the-mill thriller than anything else.

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Josh Parham

Next Best Picture

Jun 8, 2022

5/10

The film wants us to see a complicated world filled with bad actors with some good tendencies but none of these characters are interesting enough to justify whatever thematic commentary is provided.

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Paul M. Bradshaw

NME (New Musical Express)

Apr 23, 2021

2/5

...nothing but a bad trip.

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Synopsis

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.

Director: Tiller Russell
Producer: Stephen Gans, Jack Selby, Duncan Montgomery, David Hyman, Alex Orlovsky
Screenwriter: Tiller Russell
Distributor: Lionsgate Films
Production Co: Perfect Season Productions, Mutressa Movies, High Frequency Entertainment, Piccadilly Pictures
Rating: R (Pervasive Language|Drug Content)
Genre: Mystery & Thriller, Crime, Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Feb 19, 2021, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Feb 19, 2021
Runtime: 1h 56m
Aspect Ratio: Scope (2.35:1)

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