6 out of 10
Worth a watch as a decent popcorn flick, but don’t go in with the highest of expectations.
First, all of my fellow glasses wearers, don’t go see TRON: Legacy in 3D unless you’ve put your contacts in, because I forgot and had to wear my glasses under the damn 3D glasses, and with all the bright glowing imagery in TRON, I was getting refracted double-vision the whole movie.
Ok, as for the movie itself, despite its run-time of over two hours, I hardly thought it dragged at all, and in the action scenes it was thoroughly entertaining and engaging, the same goes for any time Jeff Bridges (the real, not the digital) was on-screen. I think they believed a little too much in their digital young Bridges, and he constantly took me out of the movie with his fakeness. The plot was pretty standard, they were none-too subtle about the things they borrowed from other great sci-fi films, especially all of the Star Wars films (old Bridges = obi-wan, including a Jedi mind trick moment, at one point Sam Flynn was wearing a dark cloak and hood with a disturbing Hayden Christensen as Anakin vibe, and there was even a double-sided laser weapon). The only really negative thing I have to say was the whole story Arc of Tron himself, who I know I might have understood/appreciate more if I’d been able to re-watch the original before seeing this, as his story seemed odd and his character turns didn’t make a lot of sense to me.
Like I said, go see it, its entertaining, but if you enter with high-expectations, you will leave disappointed…
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