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Aside from the uninspired writing, I did enjoy watching Silk Road. Story is familiar to most; the story of the guy that created and run the illegal website via the tor network which was selling all kinds of illegal things online... parallel to that was the story of a corrupt cop who was after Silk Road.

The movie connects both stories and gives us a bit of the cliches that we are used to in this kind of fast-illegal-success story which ends up bad for the protagonist.

I don't have a particular interest about the clear depiction of this story and how truthful it was presented on screen; I m only interested in the quality of the film and how entertaining it was.

It is still just a film and not a documentary so adjust your expectations.

Overall, it's an interesting film to watch on a sleepless night or on a Saturday afternoon and get an idea of the Silk Road story. Also Jason Clarke gives a decent performance here as the cop and makes this film a tad more interesting. However, the writing could have been much better and create a background for the ideological base of the protagonist. Also the dialogues are dull at times and the editing is not helping either. Maybe some more info on the way he created Silk Road would be more interesting for the viewer and also the way he hid himself and the website from the authorities for that long. There are indeed mentions on all the above throughout the film, but they r brushed off rather fast.

The backbone of the story is nevertheless interesting, so if you start this film, you ll probably stick to it wanting to see how it's gonna play out, even if you kinda know how... Mildly interesting and entertaining, 6/10.

The main reason to watch this is you'll learn all the important things about Silk Road and the founder. The movie itself was kind of silly, it took every cliche imaginable and incorporated that into the script. I wish this movie was made with a higher caliber director who could have done the story more justice. Watch it for the info not the entertainment.

Silk Road is a story that can not be made up. If there was a smart person who got their hands on this project, this could have been another "Social Network" kind of movie - this was not that - Even from my little knowledge of the true events, half of the time I was like: "This is made up - this did not happen like this" - and if it was fun or better than what actually happened. I would have been fine.

This movie just left more questions unanswered than it actually answered. People who never heard of this story now have to go listen to the podcast to actually find out what happened. I feel like that is not a great thing.

My girlfriend liked it tho and will not care that they skipped a bunch of stuff, so 5/10 - average to great movie!

This makes The Social Network look like a documentary. I could forgive the use of creative license if the story wasn't so poorly mashed together.

Maybe I'm biased because Nick Bilton's book was so good but short of some decent acting there's little here to make it an enjoyable watch, let alone a half true retelling of the actual events.

I wish they had stuck to the original story. The corrupted FBI agent was one narrative and the scammer was another. They just mixed everything up in an over-dramatized & cliched way. I have consumed so much of Ross's story to know this could have been done better.

A fantastic insight to a evolutionary revolution. Albeit an illegal one. Drugs is old game, everyone has seen a thousand drug movies, Silk Road is a drug movie where the drugs aren't the point. The technology is. Even back as recent as 2011, where this story takes shape, technology and the internet were still an unknown entity to most, think about it, just how much did you really know?! Exactly, and that's the point of this movie.

The founder of Silk Road, made 1.2million Bitcoin in the first day of "public trading". That's worth a eye watering £48,671,764,992 ($66,327,120,000) in today's Bitcoin value. Yep, that's right. A. Day. In The first day! The future had truly changed when Silk Road went live, and this story is a great insight.

The main cast, Nick Robinson, Jason Clarke & Alexandra Shipp do a great job delivering this story, which, yes, is slow and wordy to start, but once you understand the 2 sides of the coin and the technology at play, it's a brilliantly clever and well delivered film

I had never heard of Silk Road until this movie came out. I read up on the actual events and it looks like they left out a bunch of the story. Evidently Ross Ulbricht put out hits on at least six more people. Not to mention, a second agent was arrested, Shaun Bridges, who worked on the same task force and ran an even more lucrative scheme. Each were apparently unaware of the other's illegal activities. Both agents received fairly light sentences. Ulbricht, not so much. He received two life sentences, pretty harsh for someone convicted of a none violent crime. Somehow he still has access to a computer. He posts on Twitter quite frequently.

7/10 - compelling cat-and-mouse game between drug cyber criminal and past-his-prime federal agent shines a light on a fascinating real story that I had somehow escaped hearing about (also loved the Love, Simon reunion)

What the director and screenwriters did not understood is that Silk Road was at the time a big revolution: drugs that were always bought with physical cash transactions, with all risks for being caught on the spot by the police, finally moved to the hidden web, guaranteeing anonymous purchases from all around the world and having them delivered directly at home. The market became so important, that the website started to sell also other kind of products, and this in a little over two years, which is impressive. Nothing of this is portrayed in the movie, which focuses too much on things that does not matter at all. Why giving so much attention to Ulbricht and his girlfriend? Why giving so much space to Bowden? Everything is rushed to a point where certain part of the story are completely skipped: how the founder passed to sell just drugs, to also weapons and fake documents? We don't get to know.

Ulbricht is portrayed just like a clueless guy, that does not have any idea on how to handle his activity, which maybe was partially true, but let me tell you that a guy that he is able to build from the ground up a marketplace so big and important, is not for sure dumb. In fact he finished university and he obtained even a master. Why you did not show the craft of the website? How he came up with the name Silk Road? How he grew his business, which strategies he used? None of this apparently matter on the eyes of creators. We see instead a DEA agent that was transferred to the cybercrimes department, because he completely suck at his job and need just to work a few months to get the pension. We see him hanging around with his informant, that does most of the job that he is supposed to do. Absolutely ridiculous. Moreover is the classic cop that he is not able to understand that time changes and the job is different now, so he is basically the typical boomer, not able to accept having a younger boss, more experienced than him in IT, and he claims that the old way is always the best one. So cliché.

If you really want to make a movie about Silk Road, you should first of all really inform yourself, reading books and watching documentaries about the topic, making tons of research; understanding how this single website changed society, which were the consequences when was shut down and what inspired afterwards. The movie is incomplete, and made by people that clearly did not know anything about it. If you really want to know the true story, please go to watch "Deep Web", as it really explain what happened.

While the subject matter of this film is certainly intriguing, the execution leaves much to be desired. Rather than focusing on the main protagonist, the film spends an excessive amount of time on a peripheral character, the cop. As a result, the heart of the story is lost, and the film ultimately falls short.

It's disappointing that the filmmakers chose to take a half-fictionalized approach to this topic. The subject matter is weighty and deserves a more serious treatment, perhaps in the form of a documentary. By trying to combine elements of both fiction and non-fiction, the film ends up feeling disjointed and unsatisfying.

Overall, while there are certainly interesting moments in the film, it ultimately fails to do justice to its subject matter. A more focused, documentary-style approach may have been more appropriate for this particular story.

I wouldn't watch this to understand Bitcoin or the dark web or ... well anything online. Or get a deeper more nuanced understanding of police work these days (which apparently is better done from your desk ... it feels like that is what the movie suggests) ... but just watch it as tension filled movie with flawed characters in the center of it.

Really good actors at work here and they prove once again the often said and never wrong saying of "... paved with good intentions". It has its flaws and it has its bumps and you may have issues with the likeability of any of the characters ... but maybe you can overlook these things and just enjoy this.

Based on true events, this film written and directed by Tiller Russell, was one heck of an interesting story. The movie itself was well directed, and the cinematography was on point, but it was missing that "wow factor. It felt more like a Lifetime movie/Documentary. The screenplay certainly had plot and technical issues, but I also feel the casting and performances were off. The characters didn't feel convincing, except for Alexandra Shipp. I'm sure part of that was failure from Russell to direct his cast properly, but I think the actual casting didn't fit the actual characters. They didn't feel dramatic or authentic enough, but instead forced. The 112 min runtime felt longer with the slow pacing and some long dragged out scenes. Nevertheless, an enjoyable and more so interesting watch.

This film is so loose with the facts and I'd completely understand if the real story was boring or lacking in any kind of drama or "plot" but just watch the 2015 documentary instead. It's much more riveting and suspenseful than this garbage. Why was this even made to be a "silk road" movie? This feels more like a movie, loosely inspired by the story. Poorly written, even more poorly acted. Avoid and watch Deep Web (2015) instead.

Not a bad movie at all. But movies like these need to be fast paced and strong script to keep us hooked.Jason Clarke's talent is so wasted in this movie. He is a great actor. Give him Sorkin and this movie would have killed it.

Does a good job of conveying the basic Silk Road story, with some reasonable fictionalization. Those who want to compare it to the book will find may reasons to complain, but on its own... the acting is very good; the casting, direction, and production are all good; and dialogue is fine. There are a few minor plot glitches.

7 overall; worthwhile especially if you have some interest in the subject.

Tiller Russell's first feature has some rough edges. It gets boring and has a lot of exposition and one too many filler shots. It shows he comes from documentaries and TV.

That being said, it's an entertaining movie with decent actors.

And of course they got many things wrong and left many things out. It's a relatively low budget movie not an investigative novel. But after watching it, quite a lot more people will search for the actual facts and what happened. This is a good thing.

I hope Russell learns from mistakes and evolves.

This took an interesting story and turned it into a made for TV movie, a cornucopia of Hollywood cliches. First , there is the aging copper, dissed by the younger guys for his lack of tech ability,, but all done in such a harsh, over the top way it's not believable . There are multiple scenes with the main cop's little girl , and she and the mom are all boo hoo about him not being around because he works long hours. If it was up to Hollywood writers every pediatric cardiac surgeon would work a 32 hour week and be able to bring his kid to work, and any late cases would just have to wait, cardiac tamponade be damned. They also imply middle class cops should pay 35 k per for pre school. There is the mixed race girl friend, the rich best friend, the rude hispanic boss and the Ivy educated sounding PI. One character is less believable than the next, and the story unfolds in a boring way.

Clarke and Simpson's talents wasted here, came off as a bit of a B movie. Not terrible, yet not rewatchable.

Important storyteller, yet mismatching other documentaries/book(s) on the same subject. The casting and acting was about to superficial, yet helpful for a briefly understanding over the Ulbricht/DPR struggle as well as the justice obstruction that was/is usually made across federal/governmental intelligence/counterintelligence agencies.

Rough DEA cop is re-assigned to Cyber Crime and uses his old fashioned techniques to find the guy behind the anonymous dark web site. The cop's side of the story has a nice arc and is a decent "how" story. Lots of commmenters giving low scores here complaining on how the young antagonist is portrayed and the dramatic license taken in telling the story. Good movie and deserves a prequel on Bowden and his San Juan exploits.

It's fun to see movies like this & see that even if it's only short lived, we can have some freedom.

But everything gets corrupted and the DarkWeb needs to be swept for worse things than drugs, it's just a shame this time it was drugs.

Interesting story.

With legal weed, most of this would even be necessary.

Historically inaccurate, politically correct, police = good / cypherpunks & libertarians = bad, intellectual depth = 0.01, character depth = 0.1 Why can't Hollywood make interesting movies anymore that are confrontational, provocative (no, not in terms of brutality or gender norms!) or at least non-judgemental / patronizing?