Slick and embracing everything 1980s video game aesthetic, the film Tetris is crafted as a cold war spy thriller filled with tension and intrigue. This makes for a fun watch even if it is also a rather uncritical hero arc centring American entrepreneur Henk Rogers where the glory is the economic windfall that is the rights to a video game. The stakes are built like life and death, world domination, but in the end it's about the dollar signs. Not all the twists and turns, backstabs and doublecrosses, are that interesting. There is a great deal of time spent talking about whether someone really has the rights or not which starts to feel a bit tired. But generally the film keeps the pedal to the metal to keep its audience on the edge of its seat. One might be excused for believing after watching this that Gameboy brought down the Soviet Union but for all its bravado Tetris is very watchable but perhaps a bit disposable.
Tetris
Starring: Taron Egerton, Toby Jones, Nikita Yefremov, Anthony Boyle, Sofia Lebedeva
Director: Jon S Baird
Writer: Noah Pink
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