Tetris doesn't quite fit together.
Video game adaptations have a troubled history, from the downright bad to the mostly tolerable . This year, though, the format was taken to new heights with HBO's The Last of Us, which many proclaimed to be the first truly great video game adaptation. When first announced, Tetris seemed like it would fall on the spectrum somewhere between bad and tolerable. How were they going to turn the puzzle video game into compelling cinema? For the most part, they don't do exactly that.
SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY Tetris stars Taron Egerton as Henk Rogers, a Dutch video game designer who founded Bullet-Proof Software. The film introduces Henk at a Las Vegas video game conference where he becomes enamored by the titular video game and buys some of the rights to it. The only problem is that no one is really sure who owns which distribution rights — including Mirrorsoft's Robert and Kevin Maxwell , Nintendo execs Togo Igawa and Minoru Arakawa , and Robert Stein .
Fortunately, the film's secret weapons are Egerton and Yefremov. Egerton may be best known for his role in the Kingsman franchise, but the actor has proven capable of tackling quieter material in the AppleTV+ series Black Bird and Rocketman, the Elton John biopic. Here, Egerton plays Henk with a kind of desperate optimism that makes one root for him no matter what. The fact that the film shows Henk with his family also helps.
When Tetris falls into the whole "communism bad, capitalism good" finger-wagging shtick common for movies where the USSR is a catch-all villain without nuance, it's the relationship between Henk and Alexey that makes up for it. There are other stand-out moments like a third act car chase that gets the heart racing, but Tetris is not a thriller, even if it tries to be. It's about two men trying to make a life for their families.
Ultimately, there's little that's actually edge-of-your-seat thrilling about Tetris, which is fine. Tonally, it may want the audience to think the stakes are high, but it's okay that they aren't. At the center of Tetris is a fish-out-of-water dramedy about Rogers heading to the USSR to secure the rights to Tetris. Egerton gives his all to the role, proving he can play an everyman as easily as the bombast of Elton John.
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