Exciting visuals but a severely lacking screenplay and characters.
In TRON: LEGACY Garrett Hedlund plays 27-year-old Sam Flynn, son of Kevin Flynn (Jeff Bridges), the protagonist of LEGACY’S 1982 predecessor TRON. Following up on a strange message from his father’s old office, Sam suddenly finds himself thrust into the cyber universe his dad’s been trapped in for the past 25 years. Together with the help of Quorra (Olivia Wilde), father and son fight to prevent the elder Flynn’s digital alter ego Clu (also Bridges) from crossing into the real world while simultaneously trying to find their own way home.
The only reason to see this movie is for its special effects, which are indeed incredible. I felt pure, unadulterated joy seeing characters throw themselves into the air, form motorcycles or glider-like planes around their bodies and fight to the death in races on a neon grid. The disc-hurling matches are also thrilling, figures shattering into a thousand shards of glass upon being pegged. Many of these scenes arise in the first third of the film, while the glider-slash-plane chase is near the end. The hulking “Recognizers” of the original are back and, like everything else, are cooler looking and more menacing than ever. The movie is so visually stunning that after doffing our 3D glasses and exiting the theatre, the real world felt visually boring. (Daft Punk’s slick orchestral and electronic score aid and abet the graphics perfectly.)
The one CGI letdown is Bridges’ digitally altered face, used on his maddened alter ego Clu and also the younger Kevin Flynn, in flashbacks. The unintentionally creepy end result unfortunately looks nothing like the real-life Jeff Bridges of yesteryear. Nor does it look real-life, period. In case you didn’t see this controversial pseudo mug in the trailer, just picture the robotic-looking visages of FINAL FANTASY or THE POLAR EXPRESS. Perhaps first-time feature director Joseph Kosinski could have gone for an purposely digitized-looking Clu not intended to look human, which may have proven both genuinely frightening and more suitable for the role of Bad Guy.
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