Tetris review – rise of 80s game makes for mostly entertaining drama
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/mar/16/tetris-movie-review-taron-egerton
An Apple TV+ movie tells the compelling story of how Tetris found its way out of Russia but adds a few too many flourishes
Hollywood’s lazy yet lucrative obsession with adapting material that carries a pre-awareness with it shows no obvious sign of abating and why would it, given the ease that comes with marketing something new that automatically reminds so many of something old. But with other, more obvious barrel bottoms scraped, from comic books to video games, there’s been a recent rise in looking toward products and businesses instead and an attempt to turn Wikipedia backstories into compelling dramas.