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

03/30/2021

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

03/18/2021

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

03/17/2021

3/5

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

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Daryl MacDonald

InSession Film

04/26/2024

C

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

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Josh Parham

Next Best Picture

06/08/2022

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)

04/23/2021

2/5

...nothing but a bad trip.

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stoner j

@Stoner 11/14/2022

Absolutely underrated gem of a true crime drama with excellent work showing both sides of the criminal and the cops investigation of it, awesome movie!

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Wolfgang G

@RT51462348 07/17/2022

Silk Road – Gebieter des Darknets (Originaltitel: Silk Road) ist ein Thriller von Tiller Russell, der auch das Drehbuch schrieb… Der junge, ehrgeizige Unternehmer Ross Ulbricht gründet eine anonyme und unregulierte Darknet-Website, die sich schnell zum illegalen Marktplatz für Drogen entwickelt… Wenn ich den Film sehe, fällt mir „The Social Network" mit Jesse Eisenberg ein... In „Silk Road – Gebieter des Darknets" geht es um Ross Ulbricht und um seine Geschichte, die etwas langatmig ist. Gutes Drehbuch und Regie Tiller Russell. Die beiden Hautdarsteller Jason Clarke und Nick Robinson haben mit ihrer Katz und Maus Spiel eine gute Leistung abgegeben…

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06/23/2022

The abuse of prescription drugs is raging across the globe.... Mass murder by Big Pharma and law enforcement turning a blind eye... Film doesn't do any justice.... Maybe it will open some eyes to some that don't understand how serious this genocide is..

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Giorgio G

@GioBlob 04/20/2022

Gosh, what a crappy director. I noticed 5 errors of continuity already within the first 15 minutes. Everything is done so much on the cheap that an interesting and cool story is turned into something annoying right from the start. 4/10 points.

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torin f

@nonlinearize 04/06/2022

A decently-factual if somewhat flat dramatization that will likely seem rather lifeless to those who haven't read the article on which it's based. Read the Rolling Stone article (and the excellent longform "Untold Story" piece in Wired) first, then watch the movie as enjoyable visual accompaniment to this wild tale.

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01/21/2022

Not interesting. Timeline was everywhere. Showed no real creation towards the upbringing of the actual website. Gave detail where detail wasn't needed. Would not recommend, you'll find better videos on YouTube.

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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)