Tron: Legacy

Alright, alright i'll write a review. School's over, so i'm going to be seeing some movies. And this weekend started off with Tron: Legacy. SPOILER ALERT

Synopsis: It starts off with Jeff Bridges telling his son Sam a basic recap of the previous movie. If you haven't seen this movie; 2 things. First, it doesn't matter, as it tells you everything about it and second, it's a horrible movie anyhow. After that night, Sam's father disappears. Skip forward 15 years, and now the major corporation the Jeff had built is being run by a bunch of hipster evil titans. Every year, Sam visits to pull a massive prank. After getting a mysterious page from a dead phone line, Sam goes to the arcade where the company started and is sucked into Tron. From then on out his main focus is to defeat an evil program and get out of Tron.

Review: Tron was an interesting movie. It seemed like it pulled an Avatar and tried to distract the viewer from the crappy plot with amazing visuals. That's not entirely true because Tron did manage to have a decent plot. My main problem with it was that the last 45 minutes of the 2 hour movie was that it was a chase scene. This may be true, but it was still a great, suspense filled chase scene. But action and adrenaline can only get you so far. In between action scenes, you were often given some time for the characters to progress. But... they really didn't. My greatest pet peeve was Sam. He was a bad actor who wandered about the whole movie with a big stupid look on his face. He seemed so disinterested, like a 14 year old hipster at his parents high-school reunion. Olivia Wilde (hothothothot) managed to effectively play a bad-ass, naive woman in a hostile environment. A huge problem was the character the movie was named after, Tron, had a few only a few minutes of screen time with 2 lines, and an unexplained villain role. Now poor characters aside, the set-pieces were amazing. The environment was detailed and intricate. The whole thing felt like being in a loud rave. Although there was a lot of brightness, there weren't that many colors. It was extremely monochromatic with the biggest colors being blue, red and black. Even when they weren't in the computer the set-pieces were dark and colorless. Now aiding these action sequences was an amazing score by Daft Punk. It electrified the action and provided a fast tempo that the scenes managed to keep up with without a problem. I highly recommend checking out the score, as well as this great movie. And with flops like yogi bear out, there isn't a lot out there this December. Overall it was a great movie with a fun ride that's well worth the money. Well that's what I thought about Tron, and I hope you liked this review.


And here's the trailer.