“Tetris” (** out of four) was a glib biographical drama set in the late ’80’s in which fledgling businessman Henk Rogers (Taron Egerton) joined forces with USSR game inventor Alexey Pajitnov (Nikita Efremov) in a historical international business venture to invent the title video game Tetris which became one of the highest-grossing games of all time. What starts out as a lighthearted and bouncy story of business and capitalism soon morphs into an “Argo”-like thriller of espionage and deceit but film just does not have the magnitude or scope to have the epic sweep that it needs. Director Jon S. Baird wants to make you believe that the Tetris game resulted in the eventual fall of the Soviet Union but it’s a bit of a stretch to put it mildly. Unlike the game itself, the bits and pieces and blocks of story in the film don’t fall together into a cohesive whole.

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