Tron Legacy Review

There it is in all its glory: TRON LEGACY. Saw it openning night it was the best.

SUMMARY = 20 years after the events in the first TRON film, Kevin Flynn's son Sam attempts to rescue his trapped father and plunges back into the world of the Grid.

MY ONLY QUALM = Now this is my own fault, its not that serious but since I'm not that tech savvy + I haven't seen the first Tron, some of the plot around the middle of the movie was confusing. Kevin Flynn made a great discovery years and years ago with his User ID C.L.U. and the Grid security program Tron, a discovery called The Miracle. This Miracle was the basis behind all the excitement from the trailers about Kevin changing everything like "science, medicine, religion...". The explination was a lil over my head, surprisingly, so I had to reflect on the movie afterward and read the full plot online to understand what happend. This time around I don't want to give spoilers but its an interesting idea and is also the basis for the conflict in the film. But now that I understand it it makes the movie all the more enjoyable, prob just takes a second viewing to get it. Or maybe I was just tired lol.

ENJOYMENT FACTOR = The special effects are so much fun, kinda takes one back to The Matrix somewhat. Like the personalization of computer code always impresses audiences. The Green Code in the Matrices was awesome and the bits in Tron Legacy are great. When programs are de-rezzed its incredible, even without 3D!

The costumes inside the Grid are stellar and they definitely inspire some designs for my Benefactor character. The LED lights resemble circutry all along the suits and its awesome!

Also I think Identity Disks are just as sexy as Lightsabers now, no joke! They're like 2x as ninja as Jedi Lightsabers because they're more close-quater weapons than even 'Sabers. At the same time ID Disks are more important because they double as weapons but if you loose em that's it because you can't defend yourself and there are advantages denied you due to lack of ID codes.

Olivia Wilde of House M.D. fame is hot in this movie, both as an actress and as a character. As Quorra she brings this innocence and curiosity to the role as a program that wants to know more about the world that Kevin Flynn left behind. She's great to watch and the surprise at the end is something I didn't see coming... surprisingly haha.

C.L.U. wearing the younger Flynn's face thanks to CGI effects is cool but I could tell it was an effect, but it didn't really bother me all that much. Who knows what such an effect will be like in 5 or 10 years! they say its amazing to age people but to make them younger is impressive beyond belief.

Daft Punk! Their music is awesome in this movie and they're definitely going on my list of 2010 soundtracks (Inception and Scott Pilgrim are the other two). My favorite song is "Derezzed", look for it in the End of Line club fight scene ^_^




Finally the theme of the movie I left with is that sometimes what people think is perfect or a perfect design isn't all its cracked up to be. You never know what you've got til its gone. And as oxymoronic as this sounds, the things that are most imperfect turn out to be more flawless than we first thought, prinicipal among these are relationships. Don't take family and friends for granted.

Again not a rundown of the whole movie just some things that stood out to me, what I mostly took away from the movie. I really want to see the first one more than ever now and get on the cult following that was born out of this fantastic story. A fine cinematic end to 2010 (granted it'd be cool to sendoff the year with the True Grit remake).

Go see Tron Legacy!

EL FIN