“Hollywood loves a corporate origin story. First on deck is Apple TV+ with ‘Tetris,’” writes Tribune critic Nina Metz.
A combination of art and math, Tetris is 8-bit poetry in motion — or so goes the sales pitch offered up in director Jon S. Baird’s biopic about efforts to license the Russian video game for distribution and … are you still awake?
The year is 1988. Egerton plays Henk Rogers, who runs a struggling software company in Tokyo. His own games have failed to take off, but after giving Tetris a go at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, he’s convinced it has the potential to be a hit. “I played Tetris for five minutes,” he tells his dubious banker. “I still see falling blocks in my dreams.”Not as simple as it sounds.
The movie’s focus on Henk’s point of view feels like a miscalculation. This is not a story about the creative process behind the game’s development , this is aboutthe game. And that process is treated with all the intensity and diplomatic urgency of negotiating to free dissidents or dialing back the arms race. Sit with that for a moment.
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