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But some of the Soviet characters come off as only slightly more fleshed out than Tim Curry escaping to the one place that hasn’t been corrupted by capitalism. At times, it falls into a rather shallow worldview of “capitalism good, communism bad.” This isn’t necessarily due to a failure of character development-there are plenty of capitalist villains running around too. It’s a litigation drama masquerading as a flashy political thriller in which companies like Bullet-Proof Software and Nintendo find themselves in a treacherous bidding war that writer Noah Pink and.

But the film is also somewhat undercut by its struggle to portray certain nuances. And if you’re looking for a sleek dramatized version of that story, Tetris delivers. If this sounds like the kind of thing you could watch a two-hour YouTube video essay about and not pause once, it is.

Ultimately, it's his ability to connect with Tetris developer Alexey Pajitnov (Nikita Efremov) that allows him to secure the game and bring it to about a bajillion Game Boys, but everything until that moment involves more twists and legalese than one can possibly imagine. He went on a quest to Russia to secure the rights to the game-a move that pitted him against businessman Robert Stein (Toby Jones), publishing titan Robert Maxwell, and even the KGB.

In the 1980s, the game designer and entrepreneur found himself entranced by the game after playing it at a trade show.

#Tetris movie movie#

Tetris, out today on Apple TV+, explores this complex legal history through the perspective of Henk Rogers (played by Taron Egerton). Baird, with a screenplay by Noah Pink, the Tetris movie stars Taron Egerton as Henk Rogers, the enterprising young businessman who secured the rights to Tetris for Nintendo.