Tetris takes some creative liberties with the true story of the Russian video game's bidding war, but those over-the-top moments ruin the movie.
Tetris is based on the real-life bidding war for the Russian video game, but it takes some extreme creative liberties that end up making the movie less entertaining. The AppleTV+ movie follows Henk Rogers, who learns about Tetris and attempts to buy the publishing rights to it, only he finds himself in too deep when he discovers that the rights actually belong to the state of the Soviet Union.
SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT Rogers did actually visit the U.S.S.R. on a tourist visa when he was conducting business, which was highly illegal and could have seen him imprisoned in the Soviet Union for years. The movie's depiction of a bidding war with corrupt British tycoons is also true, but it indulges in some major creative license.
The Tetris Movie Didn't Need Action Scenes At the end of Tetris, Alexey and Henk flee to the airport once Henk has gotten the rights to the game from Elorg, but several members of the KGB chase after him after being promised a percentage of Tetris' profits by newspaper tycoon Robert Maxwell. It's completely unnecessary, and it shows that Apple didn't have faith in the material, but the studio should have, as the real-life moments are so engaging.
The scenes that take place in Elorg where Nikolai bounces between rooms, negotiating with Maxwell, Robert Stein, and Henk, and playing them all against each other, are endlessly entertaining. And given the punchy dialogue in these scenes, it's essentially an action scene where words are the bullets. Then there are the fun moments where Henk and Alexy bond and learn about each other's cultures, which is completely unchanged from the true story.
Why The Tetris Movie Action Scenes May Alienate Some Viewers The action sequences are well shot, and the digital effects where the action is recreated with Tetris pieces are a nice touch. But anybody who wants to see car chases will choose to watch an action movie, not a movie about Henk Rogers fighting for the licensing rights to Tetris.
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