“Please leave a small light at the end of the tunnel, an excuse to stay healthy, an excuse to dream of better days ahead and a chance to redeem myself before I meet my maker.”

From Silk Road.

In 2010, Ross (Nick Robinson) is trying to find his way to change the world, so using Tor Browser and Bitcoin for securely untraceable transactions, Ross designs the site Silk Road on the dark web for the selling of illegal drugs.  Returning to his family (Katie Aselton and Lexi Rabe) after a stint in rehab from an undercover operation that went sideways, DEA agent Rick Bowden (Jason Clarke) is reassigned to the cyber crimes division.  Bowden’s new supervisor (Will Ropp) tells the computer-illiterate Bowden to just sit back for the next few months until he can retire.  Unwilling to sit around pointlessly, Bowden reaches out to an old informant, Rayford (Darrell Britt-Gibson), to teach him how to access Silk Road to see how it works, so he can start an investigation.  In an effort to build his user base, and unable to traditionally advertise his website, Ross gives an anonymous interview to a reporter (Walter Anaruk) from Gawker, and the article launches the site to the next level overnight.  Obsessing about making the site better, and against the advice of his friend (Daniel David Stewart) and girlfriend (Alexandra Shipp), Ross hires the user ChronicPain (Paul Walter Hauser) to review the products.  While Bowden is unable make too much headway on the case beside anonymously chatting with Ross through the site, he is assigned to an FBI-led task force under Agent Tarbell (Jimmi Simpson), and placed on the back burner because of his age and inexperience.  Bowden heads to Utah on his own to catch ChronicPain and begins to build his own dark and dangerous case against the Silk Road administrator, while the young digital criminal begins an obsessive spiral.

Inspired by the unbelievable true story of a young entrepreneur and the desperate agent that looked for him, this dramatic thriller will have viewers on the edge of their seats. Clarke and Robinson bring their opposite characters to life, making it difficult to know which character to cheer for as the story progresses. Silk Road is an interesting, almost unbelievable look at the changing face of crime in today’s world.

| Rated: R| Running Time: 117 minutes |Genre: thriller/crime |

||Family Viewing||Cursing: 8* of 10|Nudity: 0 of 10|Sexuality: 0 of 10|Gore: 0 of 10

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