Clearly it was better than some of the recent failures, like Clash of the Titans, but it didn’t bring enough to the experience for me to feel like it really justified the extra money it would cost to see it. Perhaps it was the theater I was in, but I found it to be only decent. One of the most surprising disappointments was the 3D. There were also several strange decisions by the filmmakers the most peculiar of the mysteries is that for a film named after the character Tron, he plays a very small role in it. There were many low points for me, but one of the most notable was the dance sequence, which was slightly reminiscent of the rave sequence in The Matrix Reloaded and featured Michael Sheen doing his best Merovingian impression. This wouldn’t have been a problem for me if Tron: Legacy wasn’t billed as a big budget action movie. The vast majority of this movie felt like it was spent talking. Unfortunately, these are only a small part of the movie and almost all of it occurs towards the beginning. Perhaps it was my mistake, but after watching the trailer and as a moderate fan of Tron, there were two things I was looking forward to after watching the trailers for Tron: Legacy: the lightcycles and the disc battles. I can’t say this is really the case with this movie it feels like there is a mythology there, but you don’t really get exposed to enough of the world to make it feel like it’s full of life…it feels mostly like an excuse for fancy visuals. Whether you liked them or not, Inception and Avatar, for instance, made me curious about the world of the film outside of the characters, as the worlds felt rich, like there were more stories to tell. It is hard for me to look at the film and not compare it to any of the other recent blockbusters, and not come away feeling like the world was a bit stale it didn’t feel as well developed. Thankfully there isn’t much of a love story, but what little there is feels a little shoehorned in.

As with most movies, there has to be love interest, and in this case it is played by Olivia Wilde. Pretty much everything you need to know about the relationships between Kevin Flynn, Adam Bradley, and Sam Flynn can be found in the trailer. Garrett Hedlund gives a solid performance as a son who is searching for the love and affection of his father, but much of the movie is spent on them reuniting, and is ripe with all the clichés that come with that. His performance as Clu I found to be satisfactory, as the villain feels pretty by the numbers and lacking nuance-though it could be argued that the performance is spot on, since it is a computer program.Īs you can see in the trailer, though, this film is really about the relationship between a father and the son, Sam (Garrett Hedlund), that he left after he was trapped inside the computer. Jeff Bridges is great as a man who has been trapped in the 1980’s, giving a performance reminiscent of The Dude in The Big Lebowski…that is a good thing in my book. Bruce Boxleitner also returns as Kevin Flynn’s friend and colleague Alan Bradley, as well as the digital duplicate Tron, for which the movie gets its name. Not surprisingly, things don’t go as planned, and he ends up at odds with his creation. He also returns in the role of Clu (a computer rendered younger-looking version of Jeff Bridges), a digital duplicate he created to help him create the perfect world. Jeff Bridges returns as Kevin Flynn, the creator of the computer world in which Tron occurs. I’m willing to admit that it is going to be hard to advertise a film with a 300 million dollar budget and not give something juicy away, but I felt there was little in terms of surprise. It is hard to think of many films that are more over exposed than Tron: Legacy. Since then, it seems like an endless stream of images and trailers has been released. Since the 1990’s, there has been speculation and rumors about a sequel to Tron, but it wasn’t until Disney released a teaser trailer at the 2008 San Diego ComiCon that things really began to heat up. It has been a long road for Tron: Legacy from concept to final product. The film was shot in 3D and is being released on IMAX with a budget reportedly upwards of $300 million…it is clearly a tentpole release for Disney. The original Tron was released almost 30 years ago and performed modestly at the box office, so it was interesting to see Disney put on the full-court press for its sequel. That being said, I do have a love for computers, Jeff Bridges and nerdom in general, so my interest was piqued upon hearing about the project. I have seen the film and enjoy the concept, but I am certainly not a die hard fan. I admit I’m probably not the target demographic for Tron: Legacy after all, I was born the same year the original Tron was released. December 17th, 2010 | POSTED BY Spencer Fornaciari

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