![]() ![]() ![]() Tetris has already been brought out of Russia by Robert Stein (Toby Jones), who’s sold it on to Robert Maxwell (Roger Allam under a ton of latex), who has his ‘don’t call me Kevin’ son (Anthony Boyle) in charge of the games division which might expand to save an empire which is deeply in the red despite his billionaire bluff. In the late 1980s, Henk Rogers (Taron Egerton) – Dutch-born, New York-raised, Japan-resident – has a struggling games company which hasn’t made a hit of a computer version of Go he himself designed … he picks up on the addictive Tetris, a time-sink created by Soviet government employee Alexey Pajitnov (Nikita Efremov) which is so obviously, instantly addictive that big players in a still-nascent games industry are competing for it, though contracts in place are nebulous thanks to technology evolving so swiftly that whole new areas (home computer, arcade, hand-held) are springing up overnight. ![]() But, like The Founder and Air, it’s also an entry in a weird sub-genre of films about middle-men as heroes, perhaps calculated to appeal to execs who have the power to greenlight the work of actual creatives. Baird’s Tetris is a light, entertaining true-life against-all-odds drama with a breezy style, nice performances and three happy endings: the worldwide success of the Nintendo GameBoy, the fall of the Soviet Union and the ruin of Robert Maxwell. ![]()
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