The son of a virtual world designer goes looking for his father and ends up inside the digital world that his father designed. He meets his father’s creation turned bad and a unique ally was born who was born inside the digital domain of the grid.
I was a little sceptical going to see this because my husband convinced me to watch the original ‘TRON’ with him a couple of weeks ago because he “loved it when he was young”. Needless to say I hated it. I even started to annoy myself by continually whining “what’s going on now?” “who’s that?” “huh?”. But I thought I would give ‘TRON: Legacy’ a chance because there has been so much hype about it. And I’m glad I did!
This movie was hands down better than the 1982 ‘TRON’ because it at least tried to offer an explanation at the start of the movie as to what it was about – I know people will argue with me that the first movie did, but it obviously skimmed past me.
The casting in the movie was great. Garrett Hedlund was OK and believable enough as the main character Sam Flynn but he couldn’t compare with the more famous and well known faces namely the amazing and versatile Michael Sheen, the husky voiced hero Jeff Bridge and even the small cameo role by the ever fabulous Cillian Murphy. There was plenty of eye candy for the boys though...but I couldn’t be bothered talking about the token babes.
The main thing that won me over was the amazing soundtrack by ‘Daft Punk’. This is the best soundtrack I have heard in ages and it completely led the movie. Never has a soundtrack captured a movie so well – it reminded me of the excitement I still get when I hear the ‘Terminator’ music. Truly amazing and very worthy of an award.
However, the movie wasn’t without its flaws. To be honest I didn’t really see the point in it being 3D and I think if I were to watch it again I would prefer to watch it in 2D on Bluray at home. It actually highlights at the start of the movie that not all of the movie is in 3D and some of it is 2D. Did they get a bit lazy or something? Some of the 3D bits were pointless (e.g. the very start with the 3D house) and could have been used better in other areas e.g. I really enjoyed the games and the bike chases but in a blink of an eye they were over! I think they could have incorporated more of these action shots into the movie and embraced 3D better here.
There was also something which completely confused me in the movie – where on earth did they get a roasted pig and salad from? Was there a farm and a vegetable patch outside that maybe they edited in the final cut? That was just weird –why show it? Was there a reason? These are the small details that I focus on (perhaps a bit anal?) and they wind me up a bit.
Perhaps, in not thinking about the roast pig, too much of their attention was spent focussing on the young CGI Jeff Bridges as ‘CLU’. I heard a lot about this before seeing the movie and I was keen to see what they did. Unfortunately I was a bit disappointed. He looked a bit like Tom Hanks did in ‘Polar Express’. I just know that when we watch it back in 10 years, we will be like “God that looks crap”. A bit more work to be done there I think.
However, as I say I did enjoy it but mainly because of the amazing Daft Punk soundtrack and I would advise people to go and see the movie, just to experience the soundtrack. It definitely added an extra 2 points on to my rating.
Rating: An entertaining 7/10
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