I really liked Alex Winter's Downloaded, as I thought it gave a very good synopsis of the Napster story. When I saw that he was doing one about the deep web, I was pretty stoked, especially sine this is a subject that is in it's early stages, unlike Napster. I heard Winter on Adam Carolla's podcast talking about it, and he spent most of the time talking about the Ulbrecht trial, which I was unfamiliar with. Still, since Ulbrecht was a major figure in the deep web, I thought it was going to be a substantial part of the documentary. I was mistaken. Ulbricht's story comprises 90% of this documentary, with various opinions on the war on drugs comprising another 8%. The remaining 2% actually talks about the deep web, and that merely serves to provide a framework and reference point for Ulbrecht's story. I hope that someday there will be a documentary about the deep web that isn't about one particular story or person, unfortunately this isn't it. That said, this is still really interesting, especially to people who have never heard of Ulbrecht's case or the deep web in general.
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wleongittens-11 June 2015As someone who is very interested in current events, politics and world history, I'm somewhat ashamed to admit that I did not know anything about Silk Road or had even followed the trial of Ross Ulbricht.
Yes, I did read the headlines announcing the verdict but it was only after watching this fine documentary did I learn about the trial and the issues surrounding Silk Road and the charges against Mr. Ulbricht.
The "facts" are placed in context and many questions remain but what is presented in this film should be seen by all Americans and people seeking justice. This film is a must see even if it's only to get your footing on where Internet technology is heading and the dangers that lurk out there for all of us.
Again, this is a "must see film" and I implored everyone take the time to view this film. -
SteveMierzejewski7 June 2015As I write about cybercrime and cyber security, I took a special interest in this film. It is far different from the usual fare. In the usual cybercrime movie, there is always the scene where the hacker-hero sits down at a keyboard, begins typing frantically away, then turns to his eagerly awaiting colleagues and says something like, "okay, we're into the Pentagon's computer network". If only life were so easy. The movie may be good in other aspects, but the hacking scenes don't usually hold up.
Documentaries on cybercrime are a bit different. Some of them are quite good, though they often come with an angle. By this I mean that they are not really trying to be objective, they are trying to make a case. In The Deep Web, it is clear early on that Alex Winter has an angle. The angle is that the deep web, the Silk Road, and Ross Ulbricht have provided a valid, honest service that does not undercut social values and, in fact, may have re-invigorated them. On the surface, this might seem like a difficult case to prove, but, to his credit, Winter does a remarkable job.
Winter portrays the deep web as a new cyber nation where anonymity, freedom, and relief from the burden of government surveillance can thrive. It is, or can be, the true libertarian utopia. Although the film is hyped as being narrated by Keanu Reeves, he actually has a limited role. This is more of a marketing ploy than anything. In fact, a significant part of the film is carried by "consultant producer" and Wired magazine writer, Andy Greenberg. Greenberg was the first person to actually interview Ulbricht when he was only known as Dread Pirate Roberts. He believes that Ulbricht was sincere in his libertarian philosophy and truly felt that an open drug market would reduce the violence that was connected to illegal drug use. You'll have to decide for yourself if Greenberg and Winter makes a good case for Ulbricht or not.
Winter does try to balance his pro-Ulbricht stance with interviews of various law enforcement officers connected to the case. There is some good and somewhat rare footage here of interviews with Ulbricht's lawyer, Joshua Dratal, Ulbricht's parents, and some of Ulbricht's friends and admirers. There are even some home movies of Ulbricht himself that show he was more than just a drug dealer looking to make quick money. The one interview lacking is the one of Ulbricht himself.
The crux of the film, at least for me, was the insinuation that Ulbricht received, to put it lightly, something less than a fair trial. He makes you wonder about two key points: the objectivity and competence of Judge Forrest and whether or not Ulbricht was railroaded. At times, Winter makes you wonder if there was not some sort of collusion between the prosecution and the judge; they just seemed to work so well together. Again, you can decide this for yourself.
If there is one weak point in this documentary, it is trying to portray Ulbricht in too positive a light. I have read his Tor chats, even the ones he released after his sentencing to show that he was not only concerned about making money. From these alone, you can see that Ulbricht is not the aw shucks, golly gee, kid next door that Winter makes him seem to be. In short, like everyone, he has his positive and negative characteristics. That said, this is a good documentary and one that should be watched.
I would recommend The Deep Web to everyone, even those who do not know much about the deep web, Ulbricht, or cybercrime. Winter makes the viewer consider the basic values that have created America and whether they have been dismantled to build something other than a free society. It could be that the Ulbricht trial was the crucible in which these fundamental American values were put to the test. Overall, The Deep Web is a first-rate documentary. Go see it. It will certainly give you a lot to think about. -
ferguson-621 May 2015Greetings again from the darkness. Even those of us who consistently obey the law have a general idea of how criminals work: robbing banks, stealing cars, kidnapping people, even hacking websites for personal information. Additionally, the vast majority of us have at least a rudimentary understanding of how the internet works, and the steps we take to increase security. Documentarian Alex Winter combines these two topics as he takes us inside the deep web specifically Silk Road on the Darknet.
The Surface Web vs The Deep Web - the film exposes what most of us have very little knowledge of. The simple explanation is that the "surface web" is what we use on a daily basis: Facebook postings photos of our latest meal and YouTube video sensations showing cats fighting their mirrored reflection. The Deep Web is what lies beneath. This is the (mostly) untraceable technology where the underground marketplace site known as Silk Road exists. To be clear, most of the ongoings on the deep web are legitimate and in good faith – used frequently by journalists. However, the other side is how it obtained the nickname "ebay for Heroin". Yep, untraceable transactions for illegal drugs definitely happened (and still do). It turns out that Bitcoin is the ideal underground currency for this commerce, as it can be as untraceable as the drug orders.
You might recognize the name of director Alex Winter as half of the classic movie duo in Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989). Mr. Winter released a documentary a couple years ago entitled Downloaded, where he explored the rise and fall of Napster and the effects of downloaded music. This current topic is much more dangerous and secretive, and he wisely brings along his old buddy Keanu Reeves as the narrator. Winter's approach here is initially a bit confusing, as the focus seems uncertain – is it a tell all about the deep web, or is it a profile of Silk Road, or is it an analysis of the arrest and subsequent trial of possible Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht? Most of the attention goes to Ulbricht, better known as the Dread Pirate Roberts (DPR), a pseudonym snatched from the classic movie The Princess Bride. Is/Was Ulbricht the DPR? Winter is content to leave that mystery unsolved, but the real story here is how the government put the case together against Ulbricht – fabricating charges (later dropped), circumstantial evidence, and a probable breach of privacy.
The general belief is that we should have a free and open and secure internet, though most of us never stop to think what a ludicrous demand that really is. It's the lack of privacy and ease of breach on the surface web that led to the development of the deep web – an anonymous and mostly secure environment. At least it was until the government went hard after Silk Road. Shutting down the non-violent drug transactions justified the law enforcement and political attention that the drug wars along the border never have. Is this a good thing? Is Ulbricht the DPR? Does it matter that after his arrest, his void was quickly filled by other opportunists? Do you believe you are secure on the web? Winter presents an exceptional amount of information that deserves even more discussion and explanation. That alone makes it time well spent. -
Not heading to the Wizard of Oz, although I guess you will see a lot of colorful things if you go down that road. Actually it's a site where people sold drugs. But it was more than that. Sticking it to the man, making the public aware of how vulnerable we all are and how our privacy is being squashed everyday.
Unfortunately it is actually more concerned of uncovering the Silk Road thing and the trial that commenced out of it, than diving into the deep (web). So the title may feel a bit misleading, nevertheless an intriguing movie to watch. So if you are not too obsessed about learning what the Deep Web is (it might be too technical anyway), this movie delivers as a documentary. Some questions raised are really important! Let's see where we go from here ... -
ggiulia14 January 2018The underlying message in this documentary is about seeking peace and avoiding violence... why do they interview and portray in a favourable way Cody Wilson, who, as far as I get it, is commercializing a DIY printable gun? Cody also speaks highly of Ross Ulbricht, whose goal seems to be eliminating the use of force in society. This contradicting aspect of the documentary I really didn't get. Having said this, Ulbricht's story seems heartwrecking and it doesn't sound like he had a fair trial.
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nigelmacdonald-9717330 April 2020Not just about The Silk Road, but also how government and media conspires to continue the hopeless War against Drugs, which itself perpetuates the breakdown of society and affects all our lives.
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Some English major took the time to read the related Wikipedia pages. Than he read some of the blog footnotes. And boom! The guy is knowledgeable enough to talk about something that does not exist. There is nothing deep about the web. And there is nothing hidden. There are quite a few "hidden" networks in the Internet. And many intranet pages in local networks, that aren't on the Internet. Rehashing blogs seems to be good to get you good reviews through confirmation bias, in other words you scratch my back meaning I want to believe X and I will scratch yours meaning I will call you an expert. But rehashing blog pages does not mean knowledge.
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AbsoluteRaushan27 April 2017It is about documentary film about silk route , the dark web , torr and how illegal commerce of drugs happen online. The documentary also explores the threat of doing illegal business online. The film also talk about privacy policy, privacy of the people and the fact that government is spying on you. The documentary is also about the case of Ross Ulbricht , who is been accused of being administrator of Silk Route website which is responsible for drug business. I would say that the documentary is very much informative but enlightens us with the many of the sad and depressing fact. Although I found the tittle little bit misleading as they merely talked about deep web.
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educallejero6 September 2018I have a rule. I rate documentaries with: 7 if it is great. 6 if it is good. 5 if it is less than good.
The reason is: Docs have lower ceilling and higher floors, because they are all at least an extensive view/opinion on something (even if it is morally or factually wrong), and at most they are all edits of real life (no matter how long the doc is and how factual it is, there is subjetivity and therefore not the real thing).
Ok. Keanu Reeves is the voice-over for some reason. He does a good job (why wouldn't he?). This one is good, because it is informative but it asks questions of the official story. The subject matter is interesting in and on itself (basically, freedom and justice), but the guys behind the doc doesn't watch and tell, they make an effort to give you more without answer for you the question "it was this fair or there is more behind this than "break the law-prison"?". -
The-Sarkologist2 August 2020This is another documentary about the internet by Alex Winter, the guy who played Bill in Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure. Actually, ironically, the documentary is narrated by Keanu Reeves, who was Ted in the affore mentioned movie. However, this documentary has little to do with that particular movie, and everything to do with an anonymous Marketplace known as Silk Road.
Actually, the focus of the film is on the trial of Eric Ulrich, who was convicted of running this particular site. The reason that he landed up in court was because this particular site basically sold drugs (among other things), and could only be accessed through the Deep Web, which is a layer of the internet that you are generally not able to reach via your typical search browser.
What the film explores is the far reaching implications of the trail. For instance, the DEA hacked a server in Iceland to be able to obtain information regarding the site, and they refused to release this evidence. Further, they refused to release any of the witnesses, on the grounds that there had been death threats leveled against them. In fact, one of the things that stood out was how deeply flawed the trial was, yet despite all of this, and the appeals, Eric was still sentenced to life imprisonment - yeah, it really just seemed to be a show trial to send a message that the authorities are not willing to allow the internet to be used to sell drugs.
The documentary looks at three factors though, one of them being internet security, and the fact that the government really doesn't like it because it means they can't spy on you (though they claim that it is to hunt down people who are likely to be a threat to the safety of ordinary people). The second is how the court case effectively said that the Forth Amendment, namely the prohibition against illegal search and seizure, didn't apply to the internet. Of course, it doesn't appear if this matter is settled by a long shot, and it is difficult to know the details of the appeals that Ulrich made without actually reading the judgements.
The final thing comes down to how dealing in drugs is inherently violent, and the film makes the case that this is because of the war on drugs. Obviously, using such words does tend to evoke violence, but the idea behind Silk Road was to remove that aspect of dealing in drugs. For instance, the site uses a rating system like Ebay, which meant that if people didn't supply what they said they would supply, then they would receive bad ratings, and nobody would buy from them. Yet, one could argue that it is the threat of violence that keeps people from going down that road, but this war on drugs has been raging since the 80s, and there just doesn't seem to be any end to it. In fact, it has just made things much, much worse.
Mind you, they do point out that there are a lot of vested interests in keeping the drug war going, and it is not just with the cartels. No, the private prison system, and the drug testing companys, all have a vested interest in this operation. In fact, some argue that it is because of this so called War on Drugs that the United States has the largest prison population in the world. -
aqeelalameer24 December 2017First of all this movie deviates away from its title. There was some layman explanation about the deep web to set the stage for Ulbricht's story but the title should have been different as it misleads the reader.
Secondly I think Winter did a good job with suspense as I felt I was attracted to the course of events and there were some unexpected turns such as the imprisonment for life in the Ulbricht's case.
The big downfall is the one-sided stance that Winter took in this movie painting the government as the ones to blame for the victims of the drug war and that it is Ulbricht's idea that should be used as a substitute for drugs on the street! It does that and also includes a story of a minor who purchased meth from the deep web so the movie kinda contradicts itself! it only sides with Ulbricht's story and is not able to give the full picture! it sounds very like a pro anarchism pro free will movie that assumes all people are good!
I think Winter should consider doing another movie to clarify what led the to life sentence for Ulbricht if he is to be an unbiased ideology-free director. -
rwncopeland6 November 2020An interesting and informative documentary. I'm glad they kept it technical, allowing for a lot to be learned about the subject. It's not just a documentary on Silk Road but one about the impact on people's lives afterwards, and of course the future of the internet we currently use.
The beginning and end of the documentary is strong and it was great to hear Keanu Reeves doing the voice-over work. The middle part was what lost me a bit, and probably could have been cut, but would leave the film short. -
textelements14 April 2017If you want a story of digital crime and punishment in the 2010s, and some background to help demystify these headlines, Deep Web is the right documentary for you.
The director is Alex Winter. That's right, the actor who played Bill in Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure. Oh, and Keanu Reeves narrates. Seriously. That might make this enterprise sound silly, but Winter and the producers did an exceptional job of rounding up not only passionate dissidents but law enforcement officials involved in the case, ultimately presenting a spread of perspectives. -
DavoZed23 February 2022A very well done doc. A thorough explanation of the issues, plus a good cross-section of people interviewed from government, the hacker community and other interested parties.
If you want to know about this case and you want to understand the area, certainly watch this doc. When added to the reading I have done, I think I have a reasonable sense of what happened here.
The film is relatively neutral and does not judge Ross Ulbricht, the government, the handling of the case and the pros and cons of the issues. Everyone is heard without a lot of judgement around what they say, which allows for a good understanding of the case and the issues.
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All of that said, Ross' parents play a considerable role in the film and their endless whining about his situation and the outcome is problematic. They never admit he did anything wrong, they never admit that he got himself into this situation. Instead, the law is wrong, the crimes are victimless, the judge was unfair, yada, yada. Poor Ross.
Very clearly, their son KNEW what he was doing, he set out to defeat the very laws he was convicted of breaking, he was caught and he has now had the consequences of all of that.
The law and the consequences are unfair or wrong, as is constantly stated by his parents? Maybe. Perhaps. The sentences were excessive? Sure, maybe. Ross was made an example of, to deter others from doing something similar? Of course.
Having said that, his parents will have voted the straight Republican ticket their entire lives and the very crimes and punishments they moan about, will have been brought in by the Republican monsters they elected and will have damaged millions of families, not just theirs.
Through magical thinking, Ross should be released because of (a partial list only) - the crimes were supposedly victimless, he's a harmless guy and would never hurt anyone, Covid in the prison system is dramatically higher than in the general population, other people did similar crimes and got lesser punishments, yada, yada? Sorry, what?
Their concern for others and for the lack of justice in the justice system, completely explodes when they reach out to super creepy Donald Trump for a pardon and when they contact witless Kim Kardashian, to see if she will talk to super creepy Trump.
We live in a new era where the automatic response is I didn't do it and if I did it, who cares and if I did it and I got caught, I shouldn't have to suffer the consequences and on and on. A world where people can do whatever they like and never face the consequences of their actions would be an utterly dysfunctional place that no one but sociopaths would want to live in.
I have this obscure philosophy from an even more obscure Austrian economist and I want to live my life that way, regardless of the laws or the consequences to others? Good luck, eh? -
clarkmick3322 November 2015I was interested in watching a documentary explain the constructs and concepts of the Dark Web. However what I was presented with was the case breakdown against Dread Pirate Roberts(DPR) and the Silk Road Drug Trade. This would have been okay if they had spent about 15 minutes on this, instead the documentary trawls through parents, friends of DPR and the case construct, interviews with law enforcement and senators blah blah blah...I was bored after 20 mins and just fast forwarded to the relevant bit of which there was not many.
This documentary is really about DPR and Silk Road. Not about the Dark Web, Tor or Hacking. -
hansbedlam10 September 2015If you're looking for a movie about the Deep Web. This is not the movie for you. It was more about a guy getting screwed over by the government. It was nicely done and made it's point. But it never answered anything about the deep web. I was hoping for something other than the stuff that you can find on the web or you tube videos. As far as the government's war on drugs it's never going to win. People that want to get high are going to find a way to get high. It's just like if someone wants someone else dead it's going to happen and you can pass 1,000,000 new laws and it's not going to change a thing. I made my first rifle when I was 8 and that was without the Internet. Just a Public Library and the Dewey decimal system.
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dianne_brook9 February 2020As I've checked many services, even blockchain based, don't really provide people the offered privacy and attract many crimes. I'm using Utopia p2p now and hope it will be a way out for those who simply doesn't want to share personal data with 3rd parties.
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Karl Self28 January 2017Well, it's been pointed out before, but: This is not a movie about the deep web, not about the dark net, not about TOR, not really about Silk Road either, but about Ross Ulbricht aka Dread Pirate Roberts (DPR), who was allegedly the man who set up a trade platform called Silk Road on the dark web, which was mostly used for trading (illegal) drugs. Using DPR's account, several murders were ordered and paid for, and there is some controversy whether this done by Ulbricht or by someone else using the same account. If it was, Ulbricht has failed to identify them.
For about 30 minutes, this documentary does a good job of narrating the story of Silk Road and Ulbricht, and was pretty informative to me as I didn't know the particulars of this story. For the rest of its running time, the movie turns into an emotional plea for Ulbricht because Silk Road was somehow a tool for eliminating drug-related crime, because TOR could potentially be a tool for promoting democracy in dictatorships (although, in reality, all it seems to be used for is trading drugs), and because his mum and dad don't think their boy could have done such a nefarious thing.
The movie is fair enough to admit to the fact that, despite Ulbricht claiming that he was framed and that he was not the chief Operator behind Silk Road, he had kept a detailed log about his activies with Silk Road.
Should be called "Free Ross Ulbricht".
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1st, let me start off by saying this is NOT a movie focusing on the Dark Web. This movie focuses on Ross Ulbricht and his trail and conviction.
The movie title is meant to imply it covers the content of the web, aspects and issues...It scratches some of the "manifesto" concepts of the web and freedoms and that is about it.
The movie goes to extreme lengths to color Ross as a victimized patriot, exercising what he feels is freedom and marginalizes the other effects. It plays off the Silk Road as a way for drugs to be sold without violence and mentions decriminalization several times.
What it does not mention is the numbers behind the claims. I find it highly improbable that your average heroin addict can tell you what bitcoin is, much less grasp the idea that 1 coin has a value of $230.00 per coin. The fact that the prices on the Silk Road were at the top end seems like it was simply a way for white and blue collar people to obtain drugs without risk of violence, more than the poppycock the movie tries to smear and portray as a universal truth.
The movie also tries to place doubt of guilt on Ross by CONSTANTLY quoting the defenses concerns over the location of the Silk Road serves and the movie REPEATEDLY tries to convince you this information was never submitted in writing or court...which is a lie and nothing more. What they SHOULD say is we disagree with what was STATED IN COURT as the method of which the servers location, via IP, was obtained, which they do, but not in the movie.
This is simply a pro-Ross Ulbricht movie, meant to swing opinions prior to the appeals process as far as I can tell. It is rife with misinformation, lies and falsehoods, under the guise, again, of safe drug transactions, freedom and the right of anonymity.
My suggestion is simple. Anytime a claim is made, concerning the legal end of Ulbricht's situation, to research that claim. All...and I mean ALL of the documents from the court proceedings are EASILY obtained online. There are claims against the Federal government and they may be valid, but to say that the Feds never said WHY and HOW is misleading with an intent to convey the theme that a law was broken to catch a law breaker.
The show is done well, camera work is flawless, it is the method of delivery of the content I have issues with. I would think any person who's focus is truth, would also have issue with the manipulation used in this "Documentary" -
aleksandar-todorovic-157-6795415 September 2015For a documentary that's called "Deep Web", this documentary completely misses the point.
In the first couple of minutes, it explains perfectly what the deep web is for. It explains that there are far more actually useful ways of using it then there are illegal ways of using it. After that, unfortunately, the documentary goes downhill.
It talks about the Silk Road, about the trial of Ross Ulbricht, about the suspicious government activities while building the case against him, about the drug wars... A minute after minute it goes further and further away from the actual topic and talks about the things that have weaker and weaker connection to the actual title. I did my best to watch it until the end, but about an hour later, I just couldn't take it anymore.
If this documentary was called "Silk Road", I'd understand it (and I would probably have never tried to watch it since Silk Road is not that interesting topic to me), but for a documentary that's called "Deep Web", it completely misses the point and talks about... well, everything else.
I do understand that the Silk Road has been in the news a lot and that it became the most recognizable site that represents what could the deep web be used for, but this documentary (like many articles I have read) talks like the deep web is nothing more then a synonym for the Silk Road. In reality, deep web is far move then that. Silk Road is just yet another website that operates using the .onion domain. Not the only one. The only reason it became this big is because we talk about it constantly. It wouldn't be such a gigantic business if it weren't for the medias that talked about it over and over again. -
AudioFileZ16 April 2016The Dark Web is a red herring title as the documentary here is almost in it's entirety about the dark net web site Silk Road and it's alleged founder Ross Ulbricht. Perhaps 10% of the movie speaks to the actual creation and on going nature of the so called "Dark Web". That said, the case involving Ross Ulbricbht is just as interesting, maybe even more important as much of how anyone's freedom in cyberspace will play out.
If like me you've read several articles about Ross Ullbricht and The Silk Road you likely vacillated between believing he's a criminal or martyr. You'll be a bit more in the middle post viewing The Dark Web, even leaning toward thinking he's a naive idealist in the pursuit of a fantasy world with total freedom and non-oppression for all. No matter how guilty or innocent he may be he was convicted of, the fact that this idealism was tied to a lucrative drug trade, It doomed him. If he could have set up a marketplace for just about anything legally acceptable he would be a visionary.
So, in the end you feel he was somewhat unfairly crushed by the powers that be, but he actually went too far by asking for it. Perhaps his goal to be a martyr was achieved as his ideas live on.
In the documentary The Dark Web you feel less than impressed however. You really didn't learn much about the actual dark web and you are really conflicted as to if Ulbricht got what he deserved or was a victim of grossly misused judicial power. This is a confusing piece of film from the title to the end credits. -
capelladewdrop23 October 2015This documentary is not about the deep web in general, but rather more tightly focused on The Silk Road and Ross Ulbright trial.
Like all documentaries based on this subject it gives you clear instructions of how to go on the deep web using Tor and buy drugs using Bitcoins. The reporters always claim its for educational purposes but I don't see why anyone needs a step by step guide on how to buy drugs online unless they really want to do that. I think this is wrong and can only be harmful.
Youtube is full of documentaries and guides like this that claim to be educational in order to prevent them being taken down.
If the media hadn't blown the lid on the Silk Road, there wouldn't have been heaps of school kids buying drugs who didn't know about it before. FACT This is a documentary you do not want your kids to see. -
quakex-925-9593888 July 2017I went into this expecting this documentary to explain something about the deep web, or how it came to be, to some sort of interesting extent. But really it just goes on and on about how amazing, moral, and philosophical certain users supposedly are. Mainly, the creator of the Silk Road. I'm a big fan of the Tor project, and I even like what the Silk Road did. But even as a fan, the extent they go into glorifying its creator is too much. They should have called this "Silk Road: Why Its Creator is Great." Another issue, is they focused too much on Tor. As if that is all there is to the deep web.
And just the way the story is presented, wasn't very engaging. The pacing seemed too slow. Although I don't really know enough about film production to pinpoint what caused me to perceive it that way. -
So I haven't wrote a review yet but this movie this movie needed a review! I felt it my moral responsibility to warn others of the pain watching this move will inflict on there soul!! I love movies every type I'm a movie nut, I also enjoy found footage movies I've seen good ones and BAD ones but this wow!! So I've never been so bored in all of my life there is no effort in this movie what so ever no real story nothing compelling just nothing!! A guy roams round with a camera and sets out to bore you to tears with such a monotone voice no acting experience what so ever and the charisma of a rotting grape the main guy is just sooooo dull!! How this film rates a 7 is beyond me! No story no plot no entertainment just nothing I would rather watch 2 hours of static would be ten times more entertaining!! I'm not going to do a full review with details I'm just going to warn everyone AVOID AT ALL COSTS!!!!!! If I could put minus I would've! Run for the hills save yourself. Director man go back to directing school learn some stuff and don't return untill you can capture and captivate your audience. Don't belive your reviews awful awful awful! On a plus note if you need to go to sleep fast this is the movie for you however you may go to sleep depressed! 😝