Tron: Legacy? More like Tron: Fallacy.
A visual masterpiece, one which is only let down by its inadequate and clichéd script. As a sequel, Tron: Legacy still pleases, managing to bridge the nearly 30 year gap, and no doubt it’s the best 3D event since Avatar.
However, it suffers greatly due to a very weak and very clichéd plot, which is in dire need of an upgrade. To live up to the name Tron made over two decades ago, this film delivers a sense overload which saves it and will make you want to see it again and again, giving something I’d describe as a visual-gasm.
Following the recent surge in 3D blockbusters, it retains fantastic HD set pieces, incorporating the former film’s fun ideas of light cycles, colours and computers and modernising the mise en scene with a bleak yet brilliant electroluminescent landscape. Unarguably both beautiful to see both in 2D and 3D, it unfortunately suffers due to the lack of a defined, lean, and friendly script, one which managed to encapsulate audiences of the first film.
Being a bit of a Tron fan myself, I was stunned by the breathtaking special and visual effects employed throughout, in addition to the excellent electronic accompanying soundtrack penned by the French dance maestros, Daft Punk.
Yet, with a plot that remains bleak, biblical and at various times boring, Tron: Legacy seems to convey the message: “Throw as much sfx as we can to hide this gaping hole and see if they notice”. Packed full of explosive and intense special effects which will please the fans and also those new to the Tron franchise, this is still one movie I‘d definitely recommend catching.
Set 18 years after the original 1982 cult classic, we follow the story of Sam Flynn (Garrett Hudlund), son of the infamous Kevin Flynn (Jeff Bridges). Sam’s father, the former president of Encom (Disney’s depiction of IBM, no doubt), mysteriously disappears. Missing for almost two decades, Sam grows up bitter and hardened, and nothing is heard.
That is, until a message appears at the old office of his missing dad. Sam deciding to investigate, he finds himself in a situation much bigger than he ever expected. Sucked into a virtual reality called the Grid, we follow a rip roaring journey filled with stunning set pieces which will entice you to talk about the film for hours after seeing it.
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