Silk Road
The idealistic twenty-something Ross
Ulbricht (Nick Robinson) creates Silk Road,
the Internet’s first unregulated marketplace.
However, after it is used to sell multimillion
dollars’ worth of illicit drugs, the FBI and DEA
agent Rick Bowden (Jason Clarke) seeks to
track down Ulbricht.
FIVE FACTS:
- This movie is based on the real-life story of
Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht. - This movie lacks opening credits, with
its title not appearing on-screen until the
end credits. - Tiller Russell is credited as the film’s director
and screenwriter. - The script is, however, based on David
Kushner’s Rolling Stone article “Dead End
on Silk Road”. - The Rotten Tomatoes’ critics’ consensus
says that the film “draws intriguing parallels
between its oppositional main characters, but
doesn’t do quite enough to develop the story
surrounding them.”