[Spoilers] Tron Legacy Review

[tecnowraith]

This is my Tron Legacy Review. I went to see the movie this past Monday night at a free screening from Disney marketing in Atlanta GA, my hometown.
Fist things first this was the movie i was expecting ever since I heard them doing the squeal and I am glad. The film has great action, good story and every you would expect from Tron.

Now for the spoilers. Trons upgraded technology. The new light cycles,guards staff,Qurra's sword and a new: Light jets all from a new item called a light baton. This tech can be carried with you create object if need be. The light cycles are faster and deadlier and the light steams are now able to be turn on and off with a switch. The upgraded discs can show your you history, stats and some code (if your a program) which a user or program with knowledge and modify your code to harm, change you look or heal you. It acts like a Ka in Egyptian myth as your soul. There new items as well like light grenades laser guns (from ships mostly)

For the characters, Tron, Flynn and Clu 2.0 are in the movie with new programs which you no from the trailers and the main site as. Here is where you will find out the Rinzler is a corrupted version Tron cause Clu 2.0 has the ability to corrupt programs to his command (pun intended) called Rectify. Qurra is revealed to be a new type of program called Isomorphic Algorithms (better known as ISOs) are a race of programs that are self-created; in other words, they were not created by users. and She is the last of this type programs cause of Clu wiping them out to make the perfect system Clu is show to be the new Caesar of the Grid.

The Grid itself has been upgraded as well the ability to change it's environment like moving floors and walls and gravity control. There is weather effects as well like wind, lighting and rain (from the video game I think).

Kevin Flynn has shown to have more user powers now with more control over the grid to where he hack into the environment and make changes. And able to more stuff as well which you have see, thin jedi powers for the digital world. Kevin make the ultimate sacrifice to save his son. And a return of a fallen heroes will happen in the film.

That is all I can think of and you want to more go ahead and ask and I will to remember them

 

[Krug]

Saw it and have to say I was pretty bored. The pacing was horrible, even though the story had promise; father and son going up against evil clone of daddy. The lightcycle and light fighter sequence were great, but too little of that. The lead is so colourless his clothes outshone him. They should have let Wilde be the lead.

 

[Mouseferatu]

Overall, I enjoyed it. I thought it was a lot of fun, as a purely visual spectacle. Unfortunately, a few catastrophic missteps toward the end--less in what happens than in how it happens--prevent it from being nearly as good as it could/should have been.

(The thread title contains a spoiler warning, so I'm not blocking any of what follows. But they are major spoilers. You've been warned.)

The various "surprise" reveals--Rinzler is Tron, Zeus betrays Flynn--were both pretty easy to see coming miles away, but that in and of itself doesn't bother me. I wasn't expecting any major plot twists in a movie like this. No, the serious problems come in how some of these reveals came about.

There's no weight behind Flynn's realization that Rinzler is Tron. It's almost like a passing comment, when it should be huge for the character. The last minute turn of Rinzler back into Tron came pretty much out of nowhere. Sure, it was obviously going to happen, but something significant should have made it happen. Again, there's no weight to it; it feels like it happens just because the writers said "Hey, this is where this sort of thing is supposed to happen in Formulaic Script #217."

And finally, to give the turn any weight, we needed to see Tron's face in that scene. The featureless helmet needed to go away, if only for a minute. As it is, the "faceless villain" effect that can work to make a villain menacing instead works to strip away what tiny bit of personality should have been injected into that scene. It, more even than Flynn's sacrifice, should have been the emotional payoff to the movie, and there's nothing to it. I don't expect a movie of this sort to have much in the way of depths or pathos--it's eye-candy--but the failures in that scene sucked away any little bit of meaning the movie could have had. Every other flaw is excusable; these really aren't.

(It also didn't help that, after such great CGI throughout the whole movie, Clu's face in his final shot is awful.)

Like I said, I enjoyed it overall. I'm not sorry I watched it, and I had fun. But it's all tinged with patina of disappointment over what the movie could, and even should, have been.

 

[Mouseferatu]

Urgh. The more I think about/absorb this movie, the more the logic breaks down. I'd better go to bed, while I still like it at all.

 

[Wolf72]

I really liked it, although 25 minutes of commercials and previews was a bit much imo.

sure there was lots of things unsaid (aka plot holes or plot pot-holes that you can still drive over and get to your destination).

my biggest question is how did Clu think he was going to get his thousands (if not more) of soldiers out of Flynn's arcade? ... I mean unless there was some sort of massive buffer ... otherwise it'd be a massive explosion of bodies!

I didn't mind some of the predictability at all ... thought worked out fine in the end.

 

[Mouseferatu]

my biggest question is how did Clu think he was going to get his thousands (if not more) of soldiers out of Flynn's arcade? ... I mean unless there was some sort of massive buffer ... otherwise it'd be a massive explosion of bodies!

I'll do you one better. What the heck was Clu even planning to do with them?

Leaving aside the question of whether the laser could even create that much matter (and for the record, if it could, it's essentially God and breaks other aspects of the movies), and the fact that there's insufficient room in the basement, the soldiers' vehicles and weapons wouldn't work in the real world; the laws of physics and other sciences don't allow for it.

So Clu was planning to reshape our entire world with an army of several thousand weapon-less soldiers.

Sure, they'd do a lot of damage locally. And then the various police and military forces would squash them.

If the threat had been "Clu and his programs are going to escape into the Internet, taking over the entire electronic world as they had the grid/individual server," that might at least have been viable. But they simply did not and could not pose a real threat to the physical world.

 

[Olgar Shiverstone]

Clearly, Clu didn't have one. What does a digital creation know about the physical world?

I enjoyed the movie, plot holes and all. It's very similar to the first in sequence and structure, though I thought better done in characters and obviously special effects.

 

[Krug]

I would have just been happier with more action sequences and less brooding moments.

 

[Wolf72]

ai! ... good points. My first thought while watching the movie was that his program army would spread digitally, and throughout other servers and what not.

Maybe more is explained in the novelization of the movie (if there is one)

 

[John Crichton]

I'll do you one better. What the heck was Clu even planning to do with them?

Probably not try a head-on assault, for starters. Maybe something with computers. We tend to lean on them funny machines quite a bit these days.