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Tetris

Tetris

7.6/ 10

TMDB Rating

1,700

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2023

Release Year

118 min

Runtime

Thriller
History
Drama

Overview

In 1988, American video game salesman Henk Rogers discovers the video game Tetris. When he sets out to bring the game to the world, he enters a dangerous web of lies and corruption behind the Iron Curtain.

Keywords

video game
nintendo
cold war
based on true story
salesman
copyright
duringcreditsstinger
1980s
russia

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Reviews(5)

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Manuel São Bento

@msbreviews

March 30, 2023

7
7/10

FULL SPOILER-FREE REVIEW @ https://insessionfilm.com/movie-review-tetris/ "Tetris offers a fun, informative true story about one of the most popular videogames of all time. Filled with delightfully pixelated transitions and just the right amount of humor, as well as the game's iconic music, it's

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Peter McGinn

Peter McGinn

@narrator56

April 16, 2023

7
7/10

This is a fictionalized story of how Tetris left the Soviet Union and became a worldwide phenomenon. How fictional I don’t know as I haven’t read much on the fact-based side of the story. I see there is a documentary out there featuring many of the people depicted in this film version, so that might

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Louisa Moore - Screen Zealots

@screenzealots

April 23, 2023

7
7/10

You probably would expect a film about the origins of a simple stacking block computer game to be bland and dry, but director Jon S. Baird and writer Noah Pink give “Tetris” the glossy Hollywood treatment. The movie tells the unbelievable true story of how one of the world’s most popular video games

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Nathan

Nathan

@TitanGusang

May 16, 2023

7
7/10

Tetris, directed by Jon S. Baird, is an entertaining and fast-paced film that manages to balance a grounded story with a light tone. The screenplay is stellar, streamlined, and keeps the audience engaged throughout. Despite some old-school “America is good, Russia is bad” propaganda, which felt a li

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CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

@Geronimo1967

June 17, 2023

6
6/10

This starts off as quite a fun look at just how "Tetris" made it's way from being a cheap and cheerful game played in the Soviet Union into a handheld game selling and making millions across the globe. It seems it was all spotted by opportunist "Stein" (Toby Jones) who managed to get it to a games e

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