It started off so well!
I really enjoyed it at the start. It was going to be an irreverent look at the launch of Tetris. Nothing too serious, a fun take on a real life situation.
I was also loving the style and video game elements woven into the movie. Everything initally was spot on.
Then it got into the 'story' and went downhill.
Firstly, just the sterotyping of Russia and the elements of the US coming in and eductating them and winning them over is kind of tedious. And it's also here where the style really grates. Because is it a comedy? No. Is it a serious drama? No. Is it a parody? Possibly. And a huge part of this problem is Igor Grabuzov. I saw him in another show, Stonehouse, and it's rare that I take so negatively to an actor but he's just like something out of Allo Allo. He's utterly impossible to take seriously in any way, so absurd that he snaps you out of any narrative.
The core story is also boring contract negotiations. It gets tedious quickly of this contract covers this region for this this rights unless you have this contract, which covers this region and... snore. I actually like business stuff and some of that details, but even I lost my patience with the tedium. It tries to create capers out of very boring materials.
And look at the characters with an objective view at about 1hr 40mins and they are like they are all high on some drugs over this game called Tetris.
It's not without any merit. I didn't know the story and I didn't know the Maxwells were involved, which for the British is an interesting part of our history. But I can't get over the overiding feeling that this is a story of the US dealing with the Russian savages.
I really enjoyed it at the start. It was going to be an irreverent look at the launch of Tetris. Nothing too serious, a fun take on a real life situation.
I was also loving the style and video game elements woven into the movie. Everything initally was spot on.
Then it got into the 'story' and went downhill.
Firstly, just the sterotyping of Russia and the elements of the US coming in and eductating them and winning them over is kind of tedious. And it's also here where the style really grates. Because is it a comedy? No. Is it a serious drama? No. Is it a parody? Possibly. And a huge part of this problem is Igor Grabuzov. I saw him in another show, Stonehouse, and it's rare that I take so negatively to an actor but he's just like something out of Allo Allo. He's utterly impossible to take seriously in any way, so absurd that he snaps you out of any narrative.
The core story is also boring contract negotiations. It gets tedious quickly of this contract covers this region for this this rights unless you have this contract, which covers this region and... snore. I actually like business stuff and some of that details, but even I lost my patience with the tedium. It tries to create capers out of very boring materials.
And look at the characters with an objective view at about 1hr 40mins and they are like they are all high on some drugs over this game called Tetris.
It's not without any merit. I didn't know the story and I didn't know the Maxwells were involved, which for the British is an interesting part of our history. But I can't get over the overiding feeling that this is a story of the US dealing with the Russian savages.