A combination of art and math, Tetris is 8-bit poetry in motion — or so goes the sales pitch offered up in director Jon S. Baird’s biopic about efforts to license the Russian video game for distribution and … are you still awake?
Hollywood loves a corporate origin story. Next month comes “Air,” the mash note to Nike delivered as a Ben Affleck and Matt Damon movie. In May, we’ll see the release of “BlackBerry.” But first on deck is Apple TV+ with “Tetris.”
Starring Taron Egerton (“Kingsman: The Secret Service”), the stylistic approach is upbeat, bordering on camp with all the requisite ‘80s signifiers on the soundtrack. It’s a story (from screenwriter Noah Pink) where everyone has dollar signs for eyes and the heroes are the savviest deal-makers in the room. It doesn’t feel like a film so much as something zippy cooked up for MBA programs.
