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The story idea is great. The acting by the heroine is excellent. The movie keeps viewers on their toes.

However, it does this only by revealing the epic truth very slowly, and in large parts only creates tension by the heroine acting irrationally and thereby creating problems on the side that do not make the story any richer.

Another weakness is that, looking at the entire story, the movie only tells one of the least interesting parts of it. It picks one early phase of the epic story and even there dwells only on a very particular, inessential fault.

Then the movie stops short of the most interesting following phase, except for a few seconds at the very end. This, for me, is frustrating. At least five or ten minutes of subsequent events, i.e. Showing the fruits of the whole effort, would make the movie much more satisfying. I think, if a movie has a happy ending, it might as well show it in full glory.

I noticed a few unintelligible details, so perhaps the entire story was not told in a fully intelligible way. If so, then that would constitute another weakness.

I cannot write a full review, because I stopped watching after noticing that the movie was wasting my time. Most of the time I saw people walk, drive, or do nothing, which did not in the least contribute to the story.

Apparently the movie makers had to do that to stretch the story, which could perhaps have been told in 20 minutes, to movie length.

The movie might be good to watch for people who only rarely watch movies or for old people who are still used to very slow story development from the old days. Today this movie is just impertinent.

The movie is entertaining and instructive, but to label it, "based on the true story" is misleading. Most of the story cornerstones are pure inventions and have nothing to do with the truth. Many of the key events in the film never happened in reality. This is the biggest shortcoming of the movie-it is a lie.

Another weak point is that the story remains fuzzy. The protagonists never make it clear what exactly they are doing and why. Thus the movie remains superficial and never really explains what is happening.

The technical computer and internet action details look as if the script writers were completely clueless and just sucked nonsense from their fingers. They seemed to barely know what an IP address is, but onion routing was alread way beyond their understanding. For a movie that is centered so much on the internet and the darknet one would wish for more precision in such details.

Apart from these shortcomings the relations between the protagonists are gripping and interesting to watch.