Review of Tetris (2023) by Mauro_Lanari — 04 Apr 2023

(Mauro Lanari).

In the previous "Stan & Ollie" (2018), Jon S. Baird had demonstrated his own skill in outlining an autobiographical buddy movie. This time the real story between the two founders of "The Tetris Company" (visible during a mid-titles sequence) was too skimpy and, together with executive producers Howard and Glazer (the same couple of "Thirteen Lives", 2022), he fleshed it out with pure inventions, from the spy story action to the 8-bit for nerds. Had it not been distributed by Apple, would it have been so pro-capitalist, an ode to Coke and to the Europe's "The Final Countdown" (perhaps a metaphor for the Soviet collapse)? A single exchange of jokes acts as a counterweight while on TV they broadcast the fall of the Wall: "Is this good news or bad news?" "Probably both." After more than 33 years, one would have expected a less hasty judgment.