Messy…
The only way I can describe this movie is messy.
Visually it is spectacular. Parts of it takes place in The Grid (which is a world within a computer) and parts take place in the real world and again the visual effects are spectacular in both. There was some really amazing scenes with the light cycles in the real world.
The sound track is not nearly as good as the first two Tron movies, but it does have it moments. There are a few great tracks in it.
The characters are just one dimensional cliches…
Clearly Disney is trying to set up a franchise with this thing. I doubt it will. The elephant in the room is Jared Leto as the title character. He pretty good in the role.
The movies is a D- and unless you are a big fan if the franchise skip it.
This movie bothers me a lot because it could have been really great, the visuals and soundtrack are excellent. When everyone shuts up, there are glimmers of a good movie in there.
But man, the characters all suck and the writing is abysmal. Leto sucks but I’d argue Greta Lee (the main character) was even worse in acting. She was so obnoxious and flat. Tron Legacy didn’t have the best acting but it at least got the tone of the movie right, whereas here it felt like a goofy kids movie.
The movie bombed so you don’t have to worry about a franchise. I doubt they’ll ever make another TRON movie after this.
I completely agree on Greta Lee, good god she was just terrible in this.