It’s been dubbed the Argo of video game movies, a fairly apt comparison, though Tetris tends to take itself a good deal less seriously. In reality the story is actually very engaging, with a lot more twists and exciting sequences then one would probably expect from a film all about licensing. If you don’t have any previous knowledge of the history of Tetris, this undoubtedly sounds incredibly dull. Baird’s Tetris is the surprisingly exciting, witty dramatization of programmer Henk Rogers’ (Taron Egerton) fight to obtain licensing rights of the classic video game Tetris. And yet, despite everything that should be working against it, Tetris manages to not only be a pretty solid thriller but also a pretty fun time. An entire film dedicated to an old computer game where you have to line up falling blocks almost sounds like a joke at this point. Seeing so many films of this same genre coming out at once makes it hard to get excited about any of them they tend to come off as an inauthentic cash grab more than anything else. It’s been said before- and it’ll be said again- but the film industry is completely oversaturated with biopics and corporate/product origin stories right now. “They’ll make a movie about anything these days!” is what most of us likely said upon hearing that a movie about Tetris was being released.
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