Tron: Legacy is the follow up film to Walt Disney Pictures's 1982 original movie, the story here is that Kevin Flynn played by Jeff Bridges has gone missing inside his own virtual world, now fully grown his son Sam played by Garrett Hedlund goes inside to find him, only to find a world beyond his wildest dreams.
Tron: Legacy was my first 3D experience and before I go into the movie as a whole I must talk about it, to be quite honest I HATED the 3D here, it looked dark and dismal and took away from the visual slpendor of the film, at stages I would take off the glasses and the slightly fuzzy footage looked 10 times brighter and had real visual flair, all in all if you can find a 2D screening, take it instead of the 3D one as it really distracted from the visual action, literally in those cases.
As for the movie's plot, well it's a bit like the 3D really, dull and dismal and throws 20 different storylines at you as the film progresses, not only that you can literally pinpoint what's going to happen, also making it very predictable, the cast though however really give their all, Bridges, Hedlund, Olivia Wilde as Flynn's Aide and Michael Sheen as a nightclub owner are actually quite good as is the film's sound design, but lastly there was a quote in the Herald Sun's review of the film by Leigh Paatsch that said this:
"TRON: Legacy summons a spectacle as breathtakingly out of this world as Avatar"
Now I'm sorry but I have to call bullshit on that one, Avatar was a true cinematic spectacle, that swept you away on a journey to a new world in a way that no movie had done in years, Tron: Legacy's visuals are nowhere near as good, muddled by the 3D gimmickry that because of the format's disconnection between the foreground and the background serves to keep us at a distance from the on screen action.
If I had seen the film in 2D, I would have given this a 2 and a half out of 5 for it being an entertaining ride but the wasted actors, dull storyline and gimmickry 3D visuals knotch this down to a 2 out of 5.
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