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Silk Road (2021)
Director: Tiller Russell
Cast: Jason Clarke, Nick Robinson, Daniel David Stewart, Alexandra Shipp
Runtime116 min
Rating15
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Philosophical twenty-something Ross Ulbricht creates Silk Road, a dark net website that sells drugs, while DEA agent Rick Bowden goes undercover to bring him down.
Critical Reception & Ratings
The 2021 crime thriller film Silk Road, directed by Tiller Russell, has received mixed reviews from critics. While some have praised the film's taut pacing and performances, others have found it to be an uneven exploration of the Silk Road dark web marketplace. Audience reception has been more positive, with the film holding a 6.6/10 rating on IMDb.
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Fans of crime thrillers and actor Jason Clarke will appreciate this gripping 2021 film directed by Tiller Russell, which delves into the dark world of the Silk Road online drug marketplace and the cat-and-mouse game between a philosophical drug dealer and a determined DEA agent.
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Silk Road is a 2021 American crime thriller film, written for the screen and directed by Tiller Russell based on the Rolling Stone article "Dead End on Silk Road: Internet Crime Kingpin Ross Ulbricht's Big Fall" by David Kushner. The film stars Jason Clarke, Nick Robinson, Alexandra Shipp, Jimmi Simpson, Paul Walter Hauser, Darrell Britt-Gibson, and Will Ropp. It is based on the true story of Ross Ulbricht, who develops a website on the darknet, an act which attracts the attention of the FBI and DEA, who send in federal agent Richard "Rick" Bowden, a fictional composite of real life DEA Special Agent Carl Force and US Secret Service Special Agent Shaun Bridges, both of whom were convicted of felonies related to theft of assets in the investigation of Ulbricht, to bring down his empire.
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