Tetris

Masterpiece of a story-telling for the story of tetris!

Didn't grip me. 3 1/2 star because my partner enjoyed it

As a gamer since the age of 3, I managed to live through this saga. There were rumors, and limited information articles, that told pieces of the story. There were questions about the Tengen version of Tetris and why it was so different in appearance from Nintendo's. I was an adult when I heard the real story. Tetris tells the unbelievable and absolutely insane story of dealing with the communists in the 80's. Ignorance and naivety on the part of Hank Rogers, got him involved in one of the craziest business deals, with unfathomable results. My father, in his mid 80's still plays Tetris on his almost 40 year old GameBoy, every single day. He'll play through to completion. Set it down, and in a few hours, he'll pick it up and start playing it again. I may be fanboying a bit because I did get to meet Alexey Pajitnov once, and told him how his game still occasionally haunts my dreams. The movie even mentions that, and those 512 Million of us that have played it, understand completely.

Tetris is a solid film, not focusing so much on the game industry rather tahn on USRR, but that emane love for videogames in some really fun secuences such as the one set in the Nintendo office.

Really enjoyed the movie. Read the History vs Hollywood after… so they basically have all the facts but threw in some extra drama. But to me, it seemed most of it was true (unlike BlackBerry where a lot of stuff was added, made up or twisted around).

Que delicinha, não tenho capacidade (apesar das pesquisas que fiz) de dizer que foi fidedigno nos detalhes com os fatos, entretanto imagino que tenha tentado buscar ao máximo a fidelidade dentro de todo histórico, e seus principais personagens… O limítrofe entre a realização de um sonho e a ambição desmedida… Um filme entroncado, mas didaticamente perfeito para nos fazer prender a tenção do início ao fim, uma produção limpa, digna e tensa e divertida... "Ninguém fica bilionário sendo honesto"

Unexpectedly delightful!

Creative, entertaining, really well-paced biopic of the people involved in what I had no idea was a complicated route to bring this game to the world, one of the few I actually played for a while, in the early days of PCs, at almost an addicted manner. At times the violence was a bit softened - almost too much of a comedic touch at moments - as the situation probably was even more risky and complicated. But it was a winning story worth being told. Congrats to Apple for investing in telling it!

One of my favorite movies of all time. Such an under-the/radar hit. Iykyk.

A great little movie that gives a fascinating backstory to a great video game.