

There is a significant amount of talk of doing what is best for communism or best for the Soviet Union, but it’s clear that personal gain is the main driving force. While that change is beginning, Soviet officials are trying to set themselves up financially for a world where they no longer benefit from a corrupt system. The public in the Soviet Union is pushing for more freedom, which is only a few years away at the time the film takes place. The thing about Tetris is that it isn’t really about the game as much as it’s about the relations between the Soviet Union towards the end of its existence and the Western world. Baird and writer Noah Pink did a great job writing characters in a way that made even the most bureaucratic Soviet officials seem intriguing. Making a film about legal battles and distribution rights is no easy task. Choosing to give viewers villains to root against during Roger’s journey was an excellent choice that helped the story move along. Rogers is pitted against the Soviet government as well as competitors Robert Stein (Jones) and Robert ( Roger Allam) and Kevin ( Anthony Boyle) Maxwell. Rogers is determined to bring Tetris to the world, no matter what obstacles get thrown his way.

A game invented in the Soviet Union and only barely starting to make its way to the outside world. There is a scene where another game enamors the woman he hired to promote his game at the convention. Tetris starts by presenting Rogers, a Dutch developer living in Japan, struggling to promote his own game at a convention. Baird and starring Taron Egerton as Henk Rogers and Toby Jones as Robert Stein, which shines a light on the lesser-known tale of how the well-loved game made it out to the rest of the world. Enter Tetris, an Apple TV+ movie directed by Jon S. Tetris has earned its reputation as one of the most influential video games of all time, but few know how it made it out of Soviet Russia.
