Review of Tron (1982) by Ubaldo C — 16 Aug 2013

When a video game creator hacks into the system of a multinational corporation to find the evidence that his game creations were stolen, he ends up in a world he never imagined existed.

Here we have a movie released by Disney in the early 80's that was completely different from anything they had made previously. The story is actually a simple story of the fight for justice and good against evil, but the backdrop of an electronic world takes it to another level that gave the creators free reign to do whatever they wanted, and the result is actually quite surreal in places. The mix of action ad comedy is perfectly handled, which makes it a great feel-good movie. The use of computer effects was ground-breaking at the time, and even though the blue screening looks a little dodgy by today's standards, the rest still look as breathtaking as they did on it's original release and fits the mood of the movie perfectly. The actors all play their roles perfectly and the differences between the human and electronic counterparts is very subtly handled that makes them different yet the same. Upon it's original release, Tron did incredibly well, and has gone from strength to strength as time has gone by, and rightly so is now classed a classic movie.