King Of Kong: A Fistfull of Quarters

I must admit I've played a few video games in my life and in my formative years even had a subscription to Nintendo Power Magazine. I would scour the pages looking for the latest strategies and cheat codes to get ahead in Contra or Ninja Gaiden.

This is a movie made by and for people who play X-Box Live and their original n.e.s. all day long. The people who rarely venture outside because they're still trying to get past that infamous 15th level of Super Mario Brothers.

The story of the Donkey Kong world record holder, Billy Mitchell, and an unemployed father named Steve Wiebe who challenges the record aspires to be a great story of good and evil.
Mitchell comes off like a cocky s.o.b. who sends in the minions of the video game authorities to cast aspersions on any gamer that threatens to take his title. Wiebe seems like the humble everyman without connections trying to beat a system that seems rigged against him on charm and pure skill alone.

The film seems to think it's story has the dramatic tension of a Tom Clancy novel.
These are video games were talking about here, not the Cold War.
We're not talking about the Machiavellian machinations of an evil genius against a good hearted everyman just trying to do the right thing.
We're talking two maladjusted compulsive people being obsessed over and celebrated by a bunch of other maladjusted compulsive people. Billy Mitchell actually seems the slightly more sane of the two.

I found the subject matter just collapses under the weight if you try to read too much into it.
As a person at least familiar with gaming I knew about Donkey Kong, and so I found it somewhat interesting. But non-gamers would be bored to tears

King of Kong: B-