Comment by ndiddy

I mean it takes what's actually compelling about the story (the comedy of errors that caused the Tetris rights to slip through Robert Stein's fingers, culminating in the Soviets entirely redefining who has which rights in two days of simultaneous negotiations with all involved parties) and adds all sorts of nonsense about the KGB being involved in everything from the start, about Pajitnov's family being threatened over the licensing, about Tetris somehow having the potential to both keep the Mirror Group empire from imploding and liberalize the Soviet Union, etc. Then the film has to deal with the problem that it's ostensibly about real events, but the characters' motivation makes no sense because of all the embellishments. It all just comes off as cartoonish.