Since the 1980s, the whole world has been playing the electronic puzzle game “Tetris” on various consoles, at home and on the road, and sometimes even with several players at once. “Tetris” is a real cult game and next to “Super Mario” probably a game that every child knows. However, when the news spread that “Tetris” would be made into a movie, the surprise was great.
But no! Of course, in the AppleTV+ movie “Tetris”, several tree blocks do not fall from the ceiling for 90 minutes and are stacked as space-saving as possible. Director Jon S. Baird (“Vinyl”, “Stan & Ollie”) has made “Tetris” a film that blends biopic, drama and thriller and has delighted many critics.
As of March 31, 2023, “Tetris” will be available on AppleTV+.
That’s what ‘Tetris’ is about
Henk Rogers (Taron Egerton) is a computer game developer from the Netherlands and meets the Russian programmer Alexey Pajitno (Nikita Efrenov) in the 1980s to buy him a license for a promising work. Rogers wants to market “Tetris” around the world for various video game consoles and feels big business. At first everything goes as planned.
But these are politically turbulent times. With the USSR on the verge of collapse, Rogers soon finds himself caught up in a whirlwind of lies and corruption. He has to deal with the Russian secret service, and the video game giants Atari and Nintendo, claiming “Tetris”, do not give him respite. Rogers becomes embroiled in a complicated legal battle…
First Thoughts on “Tetris”: “Clever, Sophisticated and Terrifyingly Entertaining”
And indeed, the history of the origin of “Tetris” gives a lot, as the first reviews of the film reveal. Bee the AppleTV+ film scores with a very good score of 81% (with 98 reviews) and the viewing figures even 91%. Both critics and the public are particularly amazed at how cleverly the simple computer game has been transformed into an exciting film.
For example, Jeanette Catsoulis, critic at the , that Jon S. Baird’s film is “smart, sophisticated and hauntingly entertaining” in much the same way as the computer game from which it takes its name. Richard Lawson, van called “Tetris” a “diplomatic suspense thriller” and Pete Hammond writes: “The whole cast is fantastic in a movie that kept me sharper than any ‘Bourne’.”
Those who want to see it for themselves can find ‘Tetris’ as a stream on AppleTV + starting today.