Tron: Legacy

So the first official review I give is of Tron: Legacy, the long awaited sequal to the original 1982 ground-breaking Sci-fi movie.



28 years after the first film left off we are introduced to Sam Flynn (Garret Hedlund), the Son of Kevin Flynn (Jeff Bridges). Sam Flynn is introduced as James Dean type rebel "with" a cause, donning a leather jacket and motorbike and getting up to all sorts of Hi-tech ASBO behaviour.

The movie swiftly throws Sam into "the grid", which for those who have not seen the original, is the computer generated world in which "users", i.e. you and me, can immerse themselves in and play games as well as tap into all sorts of computer code etc.

Bridges is the original User and created this world, however, he has been trapped in it by his own creation, the movies main antagonist- C.L.U. Who is a computer generated younger version of Bridges who is intent on creating the perfect code and ridding the world of any human spam!

Queue, fantastic light cycle sequences and disc wars, which are played in a gladiatorial-Esq way, to rid the system of any viruses- who said running the old Nortons anti-virus through your hard drive had to be boring ehy?

The computer world looks stunning, consisting of a colour scheme that easily allows you to separate the baddies form the goodies and the 3D is spectacular and does not become the residing force whilst watching the movie (IMAX is recommended). The movie has a perfect mix of characters, from allies like Quorra (played by Olivia Wilde) and a decent, if not odd, appearance by Martin Sheen, who seems to be a night club owning David Bowie style piece of code- a defect from iTunes maybe?

The most noteworthy part of the movie for me was and is the soundtrack. Created from scratch by electro-pop, seminal dance act Daft punk. Having acquired the services of an 85 piece orchestra they have created a mammoth album full of epic tunes. Who else is there so perfectly matched to create the soundtrack for this digital world? They were rightfully ordained to commission this. Tracks such as "the game has changed", with its epic drums and Hans Zimmer style horns, to the mind-fizzlingly electronic madness of "Derezzed" with have your feet pounding the sticky unwashed floor of the cinema. A masterpiece.

so to sum up Tron Registers as a modern classic, faithful to the original with fantastic set pieces and a decent story....

The game really has changed..

8.0/10 on the Movie Richter


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