Tron:Legacy

So this review is a little over do, but better late then never.

This is a movie that fan boys of the original Tron movie have been waiting for, counting down the days and hours since it was announced back in ’08 as officially coming out.
For anyone who hasn’t seen the original I would say, ‘go out and rent it,’ but then again it isn’t for everyone. By today’s standards of special effects, this is not the best, but what you have to look at is the fact it was made in ’82 and that it was a milestone in computer graphics.
Now, with that said, the new Tron movie, Tron: Legacy. Twenty-eight years after the original, a new movie comes out and finally continues the story that not many people saw years before until it hit cult status that is.
The movie starts out giving you goose bumps with a pan over a city that starts drawing out like the Grid and a voice over by Jeff Bridges. Then if reveals an actual city and a pan sideways and the reveal of Tron. This first two min is shown in 3D and I have to say, it gets you into it. Then it pans across a lake to a house. Inside this house is a young Jeff Bridges telling the tale of the first movie to his 7-year-old son, Sam.
Then you learn that Flynn has disappeared, fast forward 28 years later, you see an older Sam on a bike avoiding the cops at all cost in unison to an amazing techno score by Daft Punk (who make an appearance in the movie). You learn that Sam didn’t take over the company that his father left behind and it is now in the hands of money grubbing corporate Asses and the son of Dillinger. Sam makes an appearance once in awhile to ‘pull a prank’ on the company.
After his yearly prank, he learns from an old friend of his father’s, the guy who wrote the original Tron program, that he got a page, (Still rockin’ the pager?) from Flynn’s old arcade. So Sam goes to investigate, finds an old computer, but doesn’t look behind him to see that there is a laser that is about to do the same to him that did to Kevin Flynn in the first movie.
Now we are sucked into the world of Tron. It is all 3D from this point on and it is beautifully used. 3D is what brings this world to life more then it ever has been. It gives it more depth and beauty and isn’t some cheap trick to get more money. The graphics are phenomenal and so well done. Even the scenes where they show Clu, Flynn’s younger likeness program, is well done even though it was all CGI.
I was all for Avatar the year before, but now it is Tron; hands down one fo the best the Disney has come out with and this is one movie they must continue with.
Highly recommended for Imax 3D