Review of TRON: Legacy (2010) by Andrew M — 27 Mar 2014

I had done this in IMDB. Moving here to be in one place.

12 February 2011.

Marvellous Combination of Technology and Art.

When you watch a movie 5 times in less than 2 months, in the theater, and you're still craving for more then at the very least you must tell someone about it.

I rated Tron 8 out of 10, criteria wise, but that should not matter much to you. You watch TRON for its cool factor, the awe, the entertainment value. And in those it scores higher than any movie you've watched so far.

TRON has created a never-before-experienced combination of sound and imagery. To experience this effect you must watch it on the big screen in IMAX. Then you'll feel the heart-pounding bass in the musical score. Scene after scene you'll be amazed of what you see to the extent that at sometime during the movie you'll realize your mouth has been wide open. That's the jaw-dropping magic of TRON! (as is said in the movie "the awe was palpable").

The story of TRON is very made-up. There is a lot of technical babble which sound more like techno-hallucination. This especially manifests itself at the beginning and at the end of movie. However, if you get past that, if you buy into that, the rest is a story of hope, desperation, betrayal, struggle, and sacrifice ("taking one out of the equation").

The musical score is just beautiful to listen to even by itself. There's perfect sound editing to time the music to the scenes.

From the perspective of computer graphics TRON scores as high as recent movies, if not higher. Everything is imagined to be translucent which allows you to see more of the excellent work they did in creating this digital world. I must mention that the best character of the movie (CLU), the villain, is a computer-animated character, probably one of the best human-face renditions ever.

I'd be really surprised if the costumes, designed for this movie, don't make it in some shape or form to commercial products out there. We should at least see some concepts being adopted by the racing industry.

The acting is very good and in the case of Jeff Bridges it's excellent as you'd expect; Extra kudos to him who not only acts as Kevin Flynn but also does the voice for CLU.

The photography/cinematography is top of the line in TRON. They have gone all out. There are a few "into-disk/away-from-disk" scenes and then there is the most astonishing "Elevator" scene which cannot be described; all as examples.