TRON LEGACY (2010)

TRON legacy (2010)

Genre: Sci Fic, Action, Adventure

Director: Joseph Kosinski

Writers: Edward Kitsis, Adam Horowitz

Stars: Jeff Bridges, Garrett Hedlund and Olivia Wilde 

My score 3.5/5

Every year there are few or more science fictions hit the screen. And year by year they become colossus and bigger in budget and visual effects. ‘TRON Legacy’ is one of those science fictions which stand tall among others and will give you solid reasons to remember a year by its name. 

Setting up a sequel to the 20 year old TRON the story evolves around Sam Flynn who is the son of a computer programmer and visionary Kevin Flynn. Kevin goes missing when Sam was a kid leaving his company unbalanced while working on a ground breaking software platform he calls as the ‘grid’. After 20 years Sam finds the key to this grid and transform himself in to the program and in to the grid just like Kevin did long ago. There he realizes that his father’s program is much more than just a normal operating system but a universe which evolves by itself and sustain. He finds his father trapped in there for good reasons and starts to play along the game of escaping from the grid and back to reality. 

Just like it sounds in many fantasy movies like Alice in wonderland, Bridge to Terabithia or Chronicles of Narnia the heroes trapped in a strange realm must do tough tasks in order to get back home. And each of these realms is unique and never seen before fantastic. Yet you should brace yourself when you enter the realm of the grid. For the simple reason is that it’s just purely mind blowing and remarkable. You will feel exhausted even trying to understand the designs, effects and background work which must have gone in to creating that realm. It is that astonishing. There is nothing in the movie history for this to compare with and not even Avatar or Star Wars stands in its way. That’s what so unique about ‘TRON Legacy’. 

Apart from the stunning visual effects and the thrill ride or unrealism the movies is pretty much the usual. The plot is not that ground breaking or acting is not going to make you cry. So to speak ‘TRON Legacy’ has no heart even thought it tries to build up a little connection between the father and son. Or even the real feeling of hatred between the enemies is also nonexistent. So if you’re emotional or looking for emotions ‘TRON Legacy’ is not the place for you. And we have seeing many Sci Fi movies with a heart in past years which you cannot actually blame the audience for expecting some from ‘TRON Legacy’ being it that huge. 

 But keep that all aside like I mentioned before the visual effects and the thrills only will transform you to another realm    ‘TRON Legacy’ is a totally different experience for the movie lovers and we would love to settle at that for this time. But since the movie ends with a hint of another coming on our way, we would love to see a plot with heart and mind in next one. Or else just like ‘Transformers’ I don’t want to feel dizzy after watching the same old actions in bigger scale over and over. 

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