Tron_Legacy_Movie_Review

Review By projectionbooth.blogspot

These eyes didn’t glimpse 1982′s Tron until adulthood, so it isn’t through the rose-tinted lenses of nostalgia that I say I believe that film to be very nearly a masterpiece, a Metropolis-esque utilization of technology fused with a technologically-slanted narrative that is at least as important to the evolution of digital cinema as later behemoths like Jurassic Park and Terminator 2. This long-gestating sequel recognizes that relationship and capitalizes on it in the form of a pseudo-philosophical recalibration of the original concept that owes as much to the past two decades of video games as it does to 2001: A Space Odyssey. Jeff Bridges reprises his original role, now trapped inside “the grid” as an exiled Zen master betrayed by one of his own creations: Clu, made in his own image and named after the departed program from the original film and whose purpose to create the perfect world turns malevolent as he attempts to weed out the impure from his digital domain.

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Review By newyorker

Disney may be looking for a merchandising bonanza with this long-gestating sequel to the groundbreaking 1982 film, but someone in the corporate offices forgot to add any human interest to its action-heavy script. The story concerns a young man (Garrett Hedlund) who is searching for his father (Jeff Bridges), a computer hacker and video-game magnate who has been sucked into one of his own virtual worlds, but the movie is all neon whooshes and dramatic curlicues. The neon motorcycles, battles with Frisbee-like disks, and digital doubles interact well within the astonishing light show (the 3-D effects look great), and the director, Joseph Kosinski, knows how to keep the eyes busy.

Review By qctimes

If you don’t know what I mean by that, you’re not a Jeff Bridges aficionado – someone who has seen the original “Tron” and “The Big Lebowski” multiple times.

Bridges is a blend of his characters from those films in “Tron: Legacy,” a computer-focused movie that will have every computer fanatic saying, “Oh, YEAH.” And every Jeff Bridges fan will be chiming in, too.

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