Tron: Legacy

Reviews seem to be fairly mixed about this one so far, but here is my take on it. If you are awesome enough to have already seen the first Tron then you already know the basics. If not here is a quick rundown. Kevin Flynn (Jeff Bridges) is a computer programmer who gets digitized and sucked into a computer mainframe. The mainframe is being run by an evil program bent on full control. Flynn must then team up with a security program named... Tron! Thats where the name is from ZOMG revalations. They destroy the program and save the system and Flynn makes it out alive and takes over the company.

Now TRON: Legacy picks up.

It begins with a quick rundown of all the awesome things Flynn has been doing in the years since his experience in the mainframe. He made a windows-like OS and gave it away for free. He advanced computer technologies and was being an all around awesome CEO. One day after telling his son Sam about his latest adventures in the mainframe he left to work and disapeared for 10 years. Flash forward to present day. Sam is twenty years old and as with any movie lack of a father figure in his life has made him a bad-ass daredevil with a death wish. He drives a fast motocycle, out runs cops, hacks his companies servers and base jumps just because he can. He is content being a reckless youth living off of trust funds... wouldn't we all. One night his dad's old partner comes and tells him that his father had paged him. (Thats right, on a pager!) So Sam goes to his dad's old lab and gets sucked into the mainframe himself. Once there Sam, like his father before him gets thrown into the games and must compete for his life. The mainframe has now changed and is becoming a fascist state run by a tyrannical renegade program, Que, that looks exactly like Flynn... only younger. Sam now has to save himself, find his father and free the mainframe all in eight hours because movies are just better with a timelock.

I think it should go without saying that the movie looks amazing. The special effects are really great looking and I believe worth the ticket to see it on the big screen in 3D. The movie has a great cyber-punk feel to it from the way the characters act to the clothes. The clothes! Why can't we dress like that in real life? Instead of new looks we are recylcling old trends in an infinite loop, I will cite myself here. Seriously, I am not necessarily talking about the ladies in skin tight body suits (Even though that is a plus) Look at the cloak that Flynn wears for most of the movie. I would wear that... That awesome glowing Obi-Wan cloak. I'm just saying we are living in the future... We might as well dress like it. Anyway, seriously, the design of the movie is great.

The story itself is possibly a bit lacking but the movie was billed as an action type effects driven movie and that is what it delivers. The acting is fine and Jeff Bridges is awesome throwing in his old slang here and there. Overall if you want something that is not too cerebral and want to watch light cycles shatter into plasma at rediculuos speeds with the whole family then I would recommend Tron to you.

My Weird Star Rating System:

      ******/**********

6/10
Rating Breakdown:
2 Stars: Great Visual Effects
2 Stars: Awesome Set Design
1 Star: Hot Chick Oggling
1 Star: Jeff Bridges Awesomeness