TRON Legacy Review

When I first saw the teaser for this film my inner geek bounced around like a child about to go to DisneyLand, after seeing the film, the geek ain't gonna sleep for a while.

The film starts in 2D in the real world, over the 2D film opener sequence Kevin Flynn (Jeff Bridges) disappears leaving his son an orphan, fast forward to present day and Sam Flynn is a grown adult. Alan Bradley (Bruce Boxleitner) speaks with Sam that Kevin paged him from a number no longer in service, he goes to the arcade Kevin once ran, upon finding the office Sam is zapped into The Grid, thus beginning the 3D part of the film which its entirety is the best part of the film, its got comedy, romance, action and drama all in a perfect balance. I wanna break it down for ya here:

DECADENT EYE CANDY

The visuals for The Grid world are sexy alone without the 3D filming, but with the 3D filming the depth is revealed, where most movies filmed in 3D tent to abuse the privilege of filming with 3D cameras with cliches (alla final destination) TRON Legacy doesn't! instead the guys use 3D filming to bring out the depth of the environment and especially with the action sequences. using 3D ONLY when on the grid was a wise move.

THE PERFECT CAST

The acting is Top Notch especialy from Jeff Bridges who plays both hero and villain with some serious panache. His reprisal of Kevin Flynn is dead on, you could not ask for a better performance! unfortunatly Bruce Boxleitner who reprises his roll of Alan Bradley doesn't make a lot of appearances in this film. Garrett Hedlund who plays Sam Flynn does his roll well, I can't name anyone who I would have replace him in the film. Olivia Wilde does a great performance as the new female character Quorra.

EARGASMS

I got the soundtrack to the film a little after iTunes released it, Daft Punk's work on the music does the film great justice, there work on the synthesizers and orchestra is a real treat to the ears both on screen and off. Sound editing is dead on, not oscar worthy mind you but still wonderful.

WRITTEN TRUE

The writing is the biggest part that blew me away, the visuals coming in a close 2nd. It did not once deter from the first TRON film, every second keeping true to the original. They were able to keep the personality traits of the characters true to the classic, one word: Flawless.

This is a MUST SEE IN 3D, do not see it in 2D theater.

★★★★★