Tron: Legacy (2010)

	Also Known As: -
	Year of first release: 2010
	Director: Joseph Kosinski (Oblivion)
	Actors: Jeff Bridges (The Big Lebowski, Iron Man), Garrett Hedlund (Troy, Death Sentence), Olivia Wilde (The Lazarus Effect)
	Country: USA
	Genre: SF
	Conditions of visioning: 10.01.2016, Blu-ray, Home cinema
Synopsis: Sam Flynn (Hedlund) inherited the company founded by his father (Bridges) when this one disappeared after having discovered how to enter the Grid, the world inside digital microchips. Twenty years later he will follow is footsteps.
Review: I enjoyed Tron Legacy better this time than when I saw it in the cinemas, maybe thanks to subtitles that helped me understand details of the story told by a Jeff Bridges mumbling under his beard. This visioning confirmed my memory that the movie was visually very well done, even better than I remembered, having a look of futuristic and colorful Space Opera that is too rare nowadays. Some scenes are very beautiful: the bike and plane races of course but also less spectacular moments like when Flynn simply creates his double (the bluffing young digital double of Jeff Bridges must of course be mentioned). This visioning also confirmed that the French Electro band Daft Punk made an incredible job with the soundtrack which I bought right after the movie release. I even found that the action sometimes couldn't keep up with the music, for example during the scene in the club when the DJs (as themselves in the movie) play the excellent piece Derezzed (reminding me of the style in their first album Homework) but the choreography of the action seen almost too slow. This scene and the following one in the elevator are anyway some of the best in the movie, partly thanks to the music. Five years ago I had found the movie too slow and with a poor story. Now I found a new depth to the story and concluded that it is not too bad after all in spite of some gaps. I feared that this story would be even less believable nowadays than it was at the beginning of the digital age when the first Tron came out. In fact in Tron Legacy I saw the Grid in which the hero is projected not as a microchip but as a parallel universe (a bit like in the remake of Fantastic Four), which gives the story a different... dimension. Maybe Tron Legacy is a movie that ages and will keep on aging well. What is sure is that I now want to see the original Tron as soon as possible.
Rating: 7 /10