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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mouseferatu" data-source="post: 5405899" data-attributes="member: 1288">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.</blockquote>

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