WARNING: SPOILERS *****************
Visually, a feast, but a leisurely script leads to a muddled climax.
A fan of the original since 1983, I had been looking forward to this for a long time. The trailers & stills looked very promising. Sadly, while it looks good, some questionable decisions have been made, and the film doesn't seem to know what to do or where to go.
Some of the original concepts seem to have been dumbed down for audience acceptance. Programs, formerly living a uniquely digital lifestyle, sipping energy from pools, worshiping users, are now just like regular dudes with funny clothes. They work, sleep, eat, drink, and go to clubs.
Perhaps this dumbing down is why this film poses more questions than it answers.
Why has the digital world taken on analogue characteristics like dust, atmosphere & functionless water?
Why do the digital Recognizers, previously smooth, humming machine menaces, now have exhaust flames & jet engine noise?
Why do light cycles sound like they have gasoline engines?
How can a totalitarian digital society have "homeless" programs (who drink from brown paper bags yet)?
Why do all the programs now leap around and pose exactly like Asian martial artists? Just, why??
How were the Isomorphic algorithms going to change the world?
How was CLU going to conquer the world with a bunch of computer programs who were good at throwing disks?
When young Flynn switched off the server, was the world destroyed? (if so, shouldn't he have waited, since (a) the threat had been stopped, and (b) in case there were still some of those useful ISOs surviving, especially since he (and the audience) have no clue as to how to use them?)
If hours in the digital world were minutes in the real one, and in the real world it's been 20 years, does that mean that old Flynn had been trapped for up to 1200 years? (which might explain why he's channeling The Dude from "The Big Lebowski")
The biggest disappointment for me was the almost complete absence of the title character. By the end of the film, I still wasn't sure where Tron was. I had to read some summaries on the Internet to find out.
I would have preferred it if Tron, in his last act, saved the day. Sadly, when he did (briefly) appear, he was ineffective and pointless.
I was a fan of the original Tron. Original ideas and logic have been dropped for populism & eye candy. The subtle humor & in-jokes are absent. This is a disappointing followup.
Visually, a feast, but a leisurely script leads to a muddled climax.
A fan of the original since 1983, I had been looking forward to this for a long time. The trailers & stills looked very promising. Sadly, while it looks good, some questionable decisions have been made, and the film doesn't seem to know what to do or where to go.
Some of the original concepts seem to have been dumbed down for audience acceptance. Programs, formerly living a uniquely digital lifestyle, sipping energy from pools, worshiping users, are now just like regular dudes with funny clothes. They work, sleep, eat, drink, and go to clubs.
Perhaps this dumbing down is why this film poses more questions than it answers.
Why has the digital world taken on analogue characteristics like dust, atmosphere & functionless water?
Why do the digital Recognizers, previously smooth, humming machine menaces, now have exhaust flames & jet engine noise?
Why do light cycles sound like they have gasoline engines?
How can a totalitarian digital society have "homeless" programs (who drink from brown paper bags yet)?
Why do all the programs now leap around and pose exactly like Asian martial artists? Just, why??
How were the Isomorphic algorithms going to change the world?
How was CLU going to conquer the world with a bunch of computer programs who were good at throwing disks?
When young Flynn switched off the server, was the world destroyed? (if so, shouldn't he have waited, since (a) the threat had been stopped, and (b) in case there were still some of those useful ISOs surviving, especially since he (and the audience) have no clue as to how to use them?)
If hours in the digital world were minutes in the real one, and in the real world it's been 20 years, does that mean that old Flynn had been trapped for up to 1200 years? (which might explain why he's channeling The Dude from "The Big Lebowski")
The biggest disappointment for me was the almost complete absence of the title character. By the end of the film, I still wasn't sure where Tron was. I had to read some summaries on the Internet to find out.
I would have preferred it if Tron, in his last act, saved the day. Sadly, when he did (briefly) appear, he was ineffective and pointless.
I was a fan of the original Tron. Original ideas and logic have been dropped for populism & eye candy. The subtle humor & in-jokes are absent. This is a disappointing followup.