Moreover, the script collapses in on itself when it gets to the tooing and froing between the different parties vying for control of 'Tetris', and while it's trying to tell the story as truthfully as it can, it eventually buries the underlying themes and message of the movie entirely. Again, while it's clear to see that 'The Social Network' has been an influence here, 'Tetris' paints in far broader colours and has a lot less subtlety. Having struck a deal with Nintendo, the legal troubles begin to propagate and flourish when Henk realises that he's been had by arch-villains Roger Allam and Toby Jones, to say nothing of the ludicrously caricatured KGB agents that hover in the background of every scene. Much of 'Tetris' is following Taron Egerton's irrepressible salesman character tramping around Moscow to lock down the handheld rights to 'Tetris'. As the movie shows, it could be made and the game spread like wildfire through the Soviet Union - to such a point that it was eventually had to be banned and blocked from government computers there. Indeed, Tetris began as a hobby for programmer Alexy Pajitnov, made simply to see if it could be made. In a lot of ways, 'Tetris' is the old story of the clash between art and commerce. Yet, in the case of Tetris, the truth warrants the kind of extravagance that a big, fizzy Hollywood story can bring.
While the likes of ' The Social Network' may have given people the idea of complex legal battles being fun to watch, the truth is vastly less cinematic or exciting. A high-stakes legal battle between billionaire Robert Maxwell (Roger Allam), his son Kevin (Anthony Boyle) and Henk ensues when a computer scientist named Alexey Pajitnov (Nikita Yefremov) and his superior (Oleg Stefan) tries to sign away the licensing rights to Tetris, but not without members of the KGB, the Central Committee of the USSR, and even Mikhail Gorbachev getting involved.
It's 1987 and tech entrepreneur Henk Rogers ( Taron Egerton) stumbles across a game that will change his life and possibly the course of history - Tetris.
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