The visuals in this movie alone, are stunning. The story and plot really felt like it followed from the last movie to this one. its a slow pace, but its so fitting for this universe. I loved it and recommended it a lot.

So, after being only 1 year old when the first Tron came out, getting to watch it decades later in the late 90's didn't really feel like anything special. However, thinking back to what was on the Silver Screen in the early 80's it's easy to see what a masterpiece the first Tron was and how original the storyline truly was. This film, is not nearly as original sadly. However, it does have a couple of redeeming qualities, none the least of which is the banging soundtrack by Daft Punk. It is SUBLIME how good it is. The visuals are quite fantastic as well... they give a quality to the grid that 1980's Tron would be jealous of. While the original had more heart, this has more beauty. Where the original had more soul, this has more flash and pizzaz, if you will. The only redeeming quality of the film is at the end where something major happens to the protagonist. Other than that, it's a standard quest driven story, go here, to get this, to go there and get that. As a person who has lost someone close to me, this film resonated with me. If that isn't you, it probably won't for the same reason. That's why I gave it as high as I did. If I hadn't had to deal with that loss, this movie would have got a 7 stars. Yet, the way it handled that part of the story was quite good, and gave closure to a decent sequel to the first Tron, in my opinion.Just let this sink in... my review is of a movie that is now over 7 years old, and yet the music still feels as fresh as it did then. If nothing else, watch this movie for the MUSIC!

I was asked why I hold this film in such high regard and why I award it the highest rating. The original Tron was landmark for the 1980's; an experience that invested on style over substance in the most harmless way. It acknowledged its tongue-in-cheek nature, embraced the playfulness and revolutionarily endeavoured into the real world vs. virtual reality.Almost 30 years later, Legacy follows up with the same attitude (perhaps a more serious one) and ends up delivering exactly what it is set up to accomplish: a well-rounded update to cannon, amazing visuals, impeccable cinematography and a memorable score by Daft Punk. As you are led along from one lush virtual environment to another you realise just how baffling, confusing, nonsensical and plain the whole story is. What's more important is that you, pardon, I, don't care. The reason why Tron Legacy works so amazingly well for me and other cult followers who have seen both films (in my case Legacy) more times than it is sane to admit is because this is the epitome of what cinema can give you in terms of subjective escapism, i.e. guilty pleasure. I could see true passion, devotion and effort from Kosinski, as devout fanboy himself, to elaborate and deepen an iconic and far-fetched world he grew up with. He embraced its foundations and their absurdities and expanded them in a coherent and more importantly, unpretentious way. Call it a vanity fair, a playground for computer programmers and geeks, or just a hollow harmless adventure, Legacy IS a joyride, from beginning to end, and its flaws don't harm the whole. Could the flaws be corrected to amount to a better film? They most certainly could. The philosophical, esoteric and even metaphorical themes that the film touches upon, but never really develops are precisely the fine line between playfulness and pretentiousness that Kosinski thankfully never crosses. He might in an eventual sequel; if it does happen, let us hope that he, or whomever succeeds deliver such a fun, careless, exuberant and lavish experience. If it doesn't I'm incredibly satisfied with I've got.

Where do I start with this piece of crud?Disney made a beautiful film in 1982 entitled TRON, about a computer genius named Flynn who is zapped into the digital world and battles a tyrannical program called the MCP (Master Control Program). Everything about this original movie was wonderful. Computers had only started becoming household and office items in the 80's as the world experienced a computer revolution. In that culture, Disney created a imagined world were programs designed by man looked, talked and even thought like man. They also believed they were created by "the Users" and looked to their Users for the direction of their life. In TRON LEGACY, much of that world seemed discarded by the writers. Users were spoken of in disdain by programs in the new movie and apparently new age thinking was introduced by throwing in evolution (the ISOs.. really?!?), reinventing Flynn, who apparently no longer had Godlike powers over a silly program he created (CLU) and giving us Oliva Wilde with nothing to do other than walk around in a skintight, glowing bodysuit. The plot was confusing and muddled and the ending of the movie made ZERO sense. It's like the script writers looked a few panels of the original TRON without actually watching it. They drop a few homages to the original, like Dillenger's son being back at ENCOM and the whole "Now that's a big door!" joke that felt pushed into the new movie. I felt embarrassed for my date who paid to take me to this movie, especially after she had sat with me as I played the original for her on DVD. She got cheated, I got cheated and so did everyone else who paid to watch this piece of crud. The rotten cherry on top of this was an ending where Oliva Wilde's character (a program with no previous flesh or blood form in our physical world) ends up in our physical world, riding a motorcycle with Flynn's son. She's a FREAKING PROGRAM (ones and zeros in a line of code),not at all like Flynn, who was a human who went into the digital world! I should have known this would be a bomb when all anyone talked about what the Light Cycles fight. Even that part of the movie wasn't as good as the original TRON Light Cycle fight. This movie gets a 2 from me and only because of the CGI. Beyond that part, it's irredeemable.Note to Disney: when you create a world with specific laws (i.e. - Users are all powerful), you can't just discard it when you make a sequel, even if it's two decades later. Continuity matters!!!