Starring Jeff Bridges, Garrett Hedlund,
Olivia Wilde, Beau Garrett and Michael
Sheen. Directed by Joseph Kosinski.
Approximately 126 minutes. Playing
at major theaters. Rated PG.
In 1982, Jeff Bridges starred in a movie called Tron. It told the story of Kevin Flynn, a guy who gets put into a video game and tries to get out. I saw this movie a few years ago. I had rented it on video. I have to say, it was not a very good movie. There was only one part that struck me as entertaining. There is this thing called ``light cycling''. Light cycling are these battles on these bright vehicles where you try and eliminate the other participants.
Fast forward 28 years later and we have a sequel called Tron: Legacy. This movie has the same character from the first film, but the story focuses more on Kevin's son, Sam (Garrett Hedlund). Years ago, Kevin disappeared from Sam when Sam was a child and no one knew what had happened to Kevin.
As an adult, Sam is a troubled young man. He bothers his father's company Encom annually and 15 minutes or so into the movie, he is arrested by cops for being a troublemaker. When Sam goes back to his home, he sees one of his father's co-workers. The co-worker says that he was paged and the page came from Kevin's office. Apparently, that number has been disconnected for a long time.
So, that very night, Sam takes his father's motorcycle over to his father's office and is soon zapped into the same place his father was years ago, only this time, the place has been updated. The costumes are different, the girls are prettier and the structure is different. At this place, Sam meets Clu (also played by Jeff Bridges), Kevin's creation that went evil, Gem (Beau Garrett), a pretty girl, Quorra (Olivia Wilde), Kevin's assistant and Zeus (Michael Sheen), a man who owns a club.
When Sam arrives at this strange place, these good looking girls take away his Earth clothes, give him new clothes and he is sent to participate in deadly games such as light cycling and odd disc fights. In the middle of a light cycling battle, Sam meets Quorra and is taken to Kevin's place. Kevin is in his sixties at least, has stubble and gray hair. Sam decides to take Quorra and Kevin back to Earth. There is a portal that closes in eight hours and it is their only ticket back to Earth until it's opened up again.
Clu finds out about this and plans to kill Quorra, Sam and Kevin. He creates an army and orders them to kill them all.
I have to say, this is a better movie than the first film. Why? I will tell you why. The special effects are better, it's more interesting and the action is better. The girls aren't too bad looking, either. The weakest point of this movie would probably have to be the acting. The acting isn't terrible, but it's not great, either. The soundtrack by French techno duo Daft Punk fit the movie, even if it's not something I'd put on my iPod.
The costumes were way better than the costumes in the 1982 film. In the first movie, the costumes were sort of gray and bright blue. In this movie, the costumes were black with colors such as blue, green or orange. The action in the first film was lame, except for the light cycling. The other action was basically hitting each other with batons. I also don't have a great memory of pretty girls in the first film. I don't remember much of the acting in the first movie, so I can't really say anything bad. The soundtrack wasn't memorable in the first movie, either.
This is not the best film that I have ever seen in my entire life. Would I see it again? Yeah, sure, why not? If you parents think it sounds too dark for kids, that's okay. If you like the sound of this movie, then I think you should give it a try.
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