Synopsis: Sam Flynn, a rebellious 27-year-old, is haunted by the mysterious disappearance of his father Kevin Flynn, a man once known as the world's leading video-game developer. When Sam investigates a strange signal sent from the old Flynn's Arcade -- a signal that could only come from his father -- he finds himself pulled into a digital world where Kevin has been trapped for 20 years. With the help of the fearless warrior Quorra, father and son embark on a life-and-death journey across a visually-stunning cyber universe -- a universe created by Kevin himself that has become far more advanced with never-before-imagined vehicles, weapons, landscapes and a ruthless villain who will stop at nothing to prevent their escape.
Starring: Jeff Bridges, Garrett Hedlund, Olivia Wilde, Bruce Boxleitner. Michael Sheen, James Frain, Beau Garrett
Directed by: Joseph Kosinski
U.S. Rating: PG
28 years ago, Tron was the Matrix of the late 90s, or the Avatar of this decade. A film that pushed technology to the limits on the big screen, a film to remember. Yep, I'm one of those few movie lovers that had the chance to watch the first Tron... I was just a 10-year old boy. It was the bomb! The most amazing tech film of that era. I said this, because I know lots of "so called" movie lovers that never, ever heard of Tron before. That was one of those films that you HAD to watch, no matter what.
I remember spending hours and hours playing Tron in Intellivision with my neighbor. It was simply... Amazing! When I had the chance to watch the first trailer several months ago, it innevitably brought to my mind all those great times and fun memories. So, obviously, it became one of those "must-see" films of the year.
Tron Legacy brings the story of Sam, Kevin Flynn's son, a rebellious 27-year old man that couldn't coup with his father misterious disappearance 20 years ago. Kevin Flynn, Sam's father, was an innovate software programer and former CEO of ENCOM International, a powerful software and video games company. During an important board of Directors meeting, Sam breaks into ENCOM headquarters, breaks the security systems and hacks their new and most powerful-secure operating system, being able to be downloaded for free. Sam is caught by the police and released few hours later. When he gets back home, Alan Bradley, Kevin's old friend and an executive consultant at ENCOM, went to visit Sam and told him that he was misteriously paged from a disconnected number at Flynn's abandoned arcade. Sam decides to go and check and explore the old closed place and he finds a hidden passage to his father's private computer lab. When he tries to beak into the system, he's transported to The Grid, a virtual domain inside the computer system.
As soon as he gets to the Grid, he's captured by sentinel programs, selected and prepared to compete in the Gladitorial Games (CGs - Precisely the game I loved to play in Intellivision). Sam defeats his oponents but he's questioned when they detect he's bleeding (he's an user, not a program). He's inmediately taken to Clu (Jeff Bridges) which Sam believes is his dad. Clu forces Sam to compete against him and when Sam is almost killed by Clu, he's saved by Quorra, Kevin's personal program assistant. She takes Sam to his father and they finally reunite after 20 years. Kevin explains Sam the reason why he disappeared and never came back, and Sam tries to convince him to go back to the real world, now that the door is open for a limit period of time.
From this moment on, Sam, Quorra and Kevin will try to get to the gate and come back to the real world, trying to evade Tron, Clu and his personal army to get Kevin's master identity disc.
I must say that I really enjoyed the film. Tron Legacy brings some pretty awesome visual effects and top class CGI, Jeff Bridges plays an amazing double role in this film (as Kevin and Clu), along with Olivia Wilde (Quorra) and Sam (Garrett Hedlund). Obviously, they left important clues to let you know that there will be a future sequel.
I've found some crossed and mixed comments and critics, some people have no idea about the story behind this film, since they never saw the first Tron, and that's understandable. I really enjoyed the film. I watched the first film over 20 years ago, I can't remember clearly most of the scenes and situations, but at least I still have some pretty good memories of the plot.
The important thing is that they tried to work the script in a way that you could understand what was happening and enjoy the film without the small details attached to the original film.
If you're a hi tech CGI movie lover, either you watched Tron or not, you definitely should watch this film.
Directed by: Joseph Kosinski
U.S. Rating: PG
28 years ago, Tron was the Matrix of the late 90s, or the Avatar of this decade. A film that pushed technology to the limits on the big screen, a film to remember. Yep, I'm one of those few movie lovers that had the chance to watch the first Tron... I was just a 10-year old boy. It was the bomb! The most amazing tech film of that era. I said this, because I know lots of "so called" movie lovers that never, ever heard of Tron before. That was one of those films that you HAD to watch, no matter what.
I remember spending hours and hours playing Tron in Intellivision with my neighbor. It was simply... Amazing! When I had the chance to watch the first trailer several months ago, it innevitably brought to my mind all those great times and fun memories. So, obviously, it became one of those "must-see" films of the year.
Tron Legacy brings the story of Sam, Kevin Flynn's son, a rebellious 27-year old man that couldn't coup with his father misterious disappearance 20 years ago. Kevin Flynn, Sam's father, was an innovate software programer and former CEO of ENCOM International, a powerful software and video games company. During an important board of Directors meeting, Sam breaks into ENCOM headquarters, breaks the security systems and hacks their new and most powerful-secure operating system, being able to be downloaded for free. Sam is caught by the police and released few hours later. When he gets back home, Alan Bradley, Kevin's old friend and an executive consultant at ENCOM, went to visit Sam and told him that he was misteriously paged from a disconnected number at Flynn's abandoned arcade. Sam decides to go and check and explore the old closed place and he finds a hidden passage to his father's private computer lab. When he tries to beak into the system, he's transported to The Grid, a virtual domain inside the computer system.
As soon as he gets to the Grid, he's captured by sentinel programs, selected and prepared to compete in the Gladitorial Games (CGs - Precisely the game I loved to play in Intellivision). Sam defeats his oponents but he's questioned when they detect he's bleeding (he's an user, not a program). He's inmediately taken to Clu (Jeff Bridges) which Sam believes is his dad. Clu forces Sam to compete against him and when Sam is almost killed by Clu, he's saved by Quorra, Kevin's personal program assistant. She takes Sam to his father and they finally reunite after 20 years. Kevin explains Sam the reason why he disappeared and never came back, and Sam tries to convince him to go back to the real world, now that the door is open for a limit period of time.
From this moment on, Sam, Quorra and Kevin will try to get to the gate and come back to the real world, trying to evade Tron, Clu and his personal army to get Kevin's master identity disc.
I must say that I really enjoyed the film. Tron Legacy brings some pretty awesome visual effects and top class CGI, Jeff Bridges plays an amazing double role in this film (as Kevin and Clu), along with Olivia Wilde (Quorra) and Sam (Garrett Hedlund). Obviously, they left important clues to let you know that there will be a future sequel.
I've found some crossed and mixed comments and critics, some people have no idea about the story behind this film, since they never saw the first Tron, and that's understandable. I really enjoyed the film. I watched the first film over 20 years ago, I can't remember clearly most of the scenes and situations, but at least I still have some pretty good memories of the plot.
The important thing is that they tried to work the script in a way that you could understand what was happening and enjoy the film without the small details attached to the original film.
If you're a hi tech CGI movie lover, either you watched Tron or not, you definitely should watch this film.
I would rate this movie with a 3/5
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LOVED IT! I would have rated it a 4 though! Did a great job of helping you understand the storyline without ever needing to see the original film. Of course I had seen the original. My mom was way cool. We watched TRON all the time! I think I remembered more details than you did or the 1st film....
So good. I'd see it again. Quorra and Sam were GREAT additions to the storyline, and I really loved their characters, but Kevin Flynn is forever my fav!!
We can't wait to see it!!!!
Becca, you guys won't regret it!