Stacking Up the Pieces: Exploring the Tetris Movie

Rating: 2 out of 5.

In the golden era of video games, Tetris was one of the cornerstones. The film by Jon S. Baird (Filth, Stan & Ollie) captures the moment of the creation of this iconic video game and the legal battle over copyright that arose from its commercialization. Tetris (2023) is conceived in the form of a historical drama with touches of comedy. With that tone, we plunge into the 80s to witness the fortuitous birth of a game that to this day has sold more than 200 million copies and has maintained its status as one of the most important video games of all time.

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Finch (2021)

Rating: 2 out of 5.

Well, Craig Luck and Ivor Powell came up with an idea. Imagine that instead of a desert island Tom Hanks finds himself alone in a post-apocalyptic future where the world is devastated and that instead of his loyal Wilson, he has a dog and a robot. Yes, that’s the idea that the writers of Finch (2021) came up with. Anyway, more than 20 years have passed since Cast Away (2000) was released and this generation has no idea that old Tom already traveled the roads of desolation and hopelessness in a very similar way. It is worth saying that Zemeckis’s is much superior to the present one and that Hanks seems to return to his iconic role, but with less charisma.

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