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Tron was a movie that I knew
nothing about prior to 2010, for some reason I was never interested in seeing the original until I found out that there was
going to be a sequel twenty-eight years later. Prior to watching Tron: Legacy I wanted to understand the
world a little more by watching the classic movie that was released in 1982 - and I’m glad I did. In
no way do you need to watch the first movie to fully understand or appreciate Tron: Legacy, but it definitely doesn’t
hurt. By watching the original Tron I was able to understand the world of Tron a little more, and appreciate
the characters involved in Tron: Legacy.
Tron: Legacy starts off a little after the ending of the original, there you see
Kevin Flynn (Jeff Bridges) telling his son a bedtime story about his experience in the system – pretty much
explaining what happened in the original and explaining what happened in the time between the final scene of Tron and the
opening sequence in Tron: Legacy. That is when you find out that Flynn disappears mysteriously –
only to be discovered in the computer system shortly thereafter – leaving his son on a mission to recover his father
in the CG world – a world that has obviously received a few upgrades since the original. The original
movie featured a world like no other, but a world that is laughably rendered to look like a futuristic world embedded in a
computer system – the new world featured in Tron: Legacy is beautiful and jaw-dropping. And along
with the perfectly placed epic musical score, this is a world that I would love to visit.
The characters featured in Tron: Legacy
are extremely likable and well acted. Of course Jeff Bridges does a remarkable job at reprising his role
from the original, and Bruce Boxleitner also reprises his role as Alan Bradley and as well as Tron. It
was amazing to see the two lead actors from the original together again; it’s surprisingly shocking that they were willing
to return to these characters twenty-eight years after the original was released to mixed reviews. Garrett
Hedlund stars as Sam Flynn, Jeff Bridges’ son… and he does an incredible job. Olivia Wilde
plays one of my favorite characters, Quorra… Kevin Flynn’s only friend and companion in the cyber world.
Quorra was a brilliant character that was portrayed perfectly by Olivia – a character that seemed more like an
innocent cat with her curiosity for Sam Flynn and the real world. Beau Garrett played
another one of my favorite characters in the movie - Gem, a beautiful almost god like person in the world of Tron.
The action sequences were choreographed
perfectly, and the graphics and special effects were rendered remarkably well. Tron: Legacy features two
characters played by Jeff Bridges; there is Kevin Flynn and a character in the cyber world named Clu. Clu
doesn’t age, so instead of looking like the Jeff Bridges we know today, he looked like the Jeff Bridges of 1982.
To pull this off of course they needed some amazing special effects, and let me tell you that it looks amazing.
Yes, it does look fake in most scenes… but I found that it only looked fake in the region surrounding his mouth
when he talked. Other than that, it looked amazing.
Like I said earlier in this review, the musical score was beautiful and inspiring – often putting you
into the scene – and giving each scene more of an epic feel to it… especially in the last twenty minutes of the
movie.
There’s honestly not much that I can say about this movie that I didn’t like. There
was one character that I just did not like; Zuse (played by Michael Sheen) just seemed out of place and awkward for this movie.
I could have used more of the games (disc and light-cycle) that they featured in the first half. But
other than that, this is an amazing movie that surprisingly surpasses the original.
I hope to get the opportunity to see more of this world in the near
future – don’t let it be another twenty-eight years before we see more of Tron.
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