Eventually, Sam escapes with the help of Quorra, played by Olivia Wilde, and is taken to the outskirts of the grid where his father has been hiding for many years. After snooping around his father’s arcade, Sam is sucked into the grid, where he is identified as a user and participates in many of the same types of games his father was subjected to back in the day. Kevin Flynn (Bridges), our hero from the first film, disappeared a long time ago, leaving a young son, Sam (Hedlund), as the largest shareholder of Flynn’s computer company, ENCOM.
The expectations for Tron: Legacy were so high, it needed to be a great, and while it has a few moments that reach terrific heights-like a Daft Punk party scene featuring Michael Sheen-as a movie, it’s merely pretty good. However, the technology implemented can only be called equivalent to 2009’s Avatar, not really exceeding it, so it isn’t a technological pioneer like the 1982 film. Sure, it is beautiful, well put together, finessed. What we get instead is a stiff lead in Garret Hedlund, a disinterested Jeff Bridges pulling some random Buddhist/ hippie act that ruins the original charm of the 1982 Flynn, and, above all, a very dark landscape. Most people interested enough in Tron to read this review don’t need a history lesson from me, although I think it’s safe to add that since Disney waited so long to produce a second film, it needed to be epic. Still, it was enough of a cult phenomenon that Disney was bound to bring it back for a sequel, eventually. Tron never broke through with critics, though it did make a little money. The plot of Tron itself was fine, and so it spawned a generation of young men who, like NBC’s title character on Chuck, still have a poster on a wall somewhere, or would, if their wives would let them. Back in 1982, when Tron reached audiences, it developed a reputation as being a graphically dynamic film. Still, they work well when presented together, and that might be enough of a reason to purchase this set.
Sure, you’ve got three strong females singing their hearts out, one is heavier, and both need to fight for or against their men, right? Same-sies. It would be like comparing Dreamgirls with the second Chipmunks movie. But Tron: Legacy, with its dystopian soundtrack and un-warming perspective is several light years away from the warm, risk-leads-to-reward melodrama of the original. Sure, they have some similarities: they present interesting computer graphics for their respective times, they feature daredevil heroes, and they both contain a plot revolving around fighting a bad guy. Though one is supposed to be a sequel to the other, Tron and Tron: Legacy aren’t all that alike.
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